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346 SCOTTISH ANNALS
1239
MATTHEW PARIS, CHRONICA MAJORA, VOL. Ill, p. 568, S.A. 1239.
Of the entrance of a legate in the time of king Alexander into
Scotland, where no legate had entered before.
In the same time the legate [Otto] hastened to enter into
Scotland and after ;
arranging the necessary matters and that
the English aldermen should spy out treachery by the if way,
haply any were prepared, he set out upon the journey, choosing
sumptuous lodgings in the abbeys and cathedral churches.
And before he entered the realm of Scotland the king of
Scotland met him, denying him entrance. For he said that
never had any [papal] legate excepting him alone entered
into Scotland. For there was no need, as he asserted ; Chris-
tianity flourished there, the church did prosperously.
And after many speeches, when the king was almost aroused
to refusal, a written agreement was prepared by the intercession
between them of the magnates of either realm : the tenour of
which agreement was that never by reason of his arrival should
such a custom arise moreover that ;
upon
his return he should
resign that written agreement. And this was contrived that
he might not return as if repulsed in confusion to England.
Nevertheless he did not -cross the sea ; but staying in the
good cities on this side of the sea he summoned the bishops
and noble vassals of the land, and disposed there according to
his will concerning ecclesiastical matters, collecting no small
x
amount of money.
And while the king remained in the interior of the land, the
legate returning secretly and suddenly, without the king's
permission, carried a,way the agreement aforesaid.
1240
MATTHEW PARIS, CHRONICA I &AJORA, VOL. IV, P. 55, S.A. 1240.
And about the 3 feast of AJ 1 Saints 2 Peter the Red and Ruf-
finus came from the regions of Scotland, carrying
with them
three thousand pounds for tl le needs of the lord pope. . . .
But the kinfj of Scotland, closed his eyes and allowed the
injury to pass which had be en inflicted upon him, and which
none of his predecessors had endured,
" In the same year the legate entered
1
Cf. Fl. His.., ii, 233, s.a. 123 9:
the land of the Icing of Scotland ; yet he did not cross the sea. But no one
forbade him, and he collected fi tssm all prelates and beneficed clergy the
thirteenth part cf their revenues, and sent it to the lord pope."
2 1st Noveuaber.