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352 SCOTTISH ANNALS
the sea to the king of Scotland ; but the king of England
forcibly repelled all whom the 1
same John had sent.
Miraculously, I say, died the said Engelram, ancient
persecutor of the church, but of that church especially, to
wit of Clairvaux, which his glorious ancestors had gloriously
founded upon their land ; he perished by a two-fold death.
For when he, a too zealous builder while he lived in temporal
things, but in spiritual things a prodigal, one day on a journey
had to cross a certain ford, his horse's foot struck upon some
obstacle ; and he fell backwards into the depths, [into which
however he was dragged by his own stirrup with violence and
disastrous result.] 2 And as he fell headlong his sword slipped
from the sheath and transfixed his body. And so submerged
and pierced and torn by the sword he departed from this
temporal light to gather the fruit of his ways.
So John, his son and sole heir, 3 for love of the queen of
Scotland his sister afforded aid, as was said above, and counsel
to the king of Scotland.
The same king also fortified the castles which border
upon England, and urgently demanded aid from the nobles
4
of his kindred and territory against the king of England,
who was planning evil against him. 5
And the aid demanded in time of need was granted him
with willing mind by many nobles and potentates, so that
the number of fighting men promised rose to an incalculable
quantity.
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MATTHEW PARIS, CHRONICA MAJQRA, VOL. IV, P. 378.
The count of Flanders arrives to aid the king.
the count of Flanders landed at
During the same days
1 Fl. His., ii, 280 :
" . . . But the king of England, hearing this, com-
manded those parts of the sea .to be most strictly guarded by the keepers of
the Five Ports." Cf. MS. E, ibid., note :
" . . . and by them they who
were sailing toward Scotland were terrified, and returned by the way by
which they had come."
"
M.P., H.A., ii, 490 : And he would have sent by sea what was asked,
had he not been prevented by the pirates of the lord king of England."
2 The part in brackets is from the margin of the MS.
3 John was not Engelram de Coucy's heir ; the eldest son, Raoul, succeeded
his father. Cf. Madden, M.P., H.A., iii, 561 ; L'Art de Ver. les Dates,
iii, 255.
4 affinibus et confinibus.
5 At a council in Westminster king Henry asked for " monetary aid to
be given him, passing over in silence his purpose of subduing the king of
Scotland in force " ; M.P., Chr. Maj., iv, 362.