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350 SCOTTISH ANNALS
ready to avenge so great a crime, and pursued this Walter
in enmity, wishing to cut him to pieces. But [Walter] fled
to the protection of the king of Scotland, and demanded that
mercy and justice should be granted him. For he denied the
crime laid to his charge, offering his body to prove his innocence
judicially before the king and his court against any man
excelling in arms and strength.
But his pursuers opposed this, asserting that the evident
enormity of the deed needed no proof. They therefore demanded
of the king vehemently and with great insistence
and bitterness of mind the public enemy, bloody from recent
slaughter and polluted by unheard-of crime. And the
king with difficulty curbed their fury, and to such extent
tempered their vengeance that [they permitted that] this
Walter should abjure Scotland and go disinherited into perpetual
exile.
But they granted this to the king with grudging, believing
that they should entrap [Walter] when separated from the
king's protection and slaughter him by a deserved death. But
after learning this the king, being a just man and merciful,
hid him cautiously for three months in places which were
inaccessible to his enemies. And afterwards in the evening
of a dark night this Walter escaped, making a secret flight,
as an exile never to return, and judicially outlawed and dis-
the very many nobles of Scotland who sought his
inherited ;
life not knowing of his flight.
But he, who had sworn to take the road to the holy land
and never to return, for the redemption of his soul and those
of the aforesaid who were destroyed in the burning, although
not, as he said, through him, turned his course and hastened
to the king of the English, to make serious complaint before
him of so great an injury inflicted upon him.
For he asserted that the king of Scotland had disinherited
him unjustly, and could not otherwise allay the presumption
of some of his rebels who rose in fury against him : although
he was ready and prepared to repel the charge brought against
him in judicial duel, and to clear and prove his innocence.
He added moreover that since the king of Scotland was
the liege-man of the -lord king of England he could not
disinherit or irrevocably exile from his land one so noble,
especially unconvicted, without the king of England's assent.
He added moreover that the said king of Scotland, in
violation of the vassalage and fealty by which he is bound
to the king of England, had received in his land Geoffrey