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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 357<br />

Bernard Fraser ; Henry de Balliol David Cum<strong>in</strong> David<br />

; ;<br />

Marshal Thomas Fitz Ranulf William de Fortibus John<br />

; ; ;<br />

de Balliol and Robert de ;<br />

Ross, greet<strong>in</strong>g, and due reverence<br />

with all honour.<br />

" We announce to your Hol<strong>in</strong>ess that we have <strong>in</strong> person<br />

given an oath <strong>in</strong> presence of the venerable father Otto, dean<br />

card<strong>in</strong>al of St. Nicholas-<strong>in</strong>-Carcere-Tulliano, then legate of<br />

the apostolic see <strong>in</strong> England, <strong>Scotland</strong> and Ireland and<br />

;<br />

have given our charter, which thus : beg<strong>in</strong>s Know present<br />

and to come that it was so agreed <strong>in</strong> presence of master Otto<br />

of St. Nicholas, etc.,' which charter rema<strong>in</strong>s <strong>in</strong> writ<strong>in</strong>g with<br />

the lord k<strong>in</strong>g of England and with us.<br />

" '<br />

Also another which beg<strong>in</strong>s thus : We<br />

wish it to come<br />

to the knowledge of you all.'<br />

" S<strong>in</strong>ce from the nature of the forego<strong>in</strong>g is pla<strong>in</strong> [the<br />

we have submitted ourselves to<br />

nature] of our obligations,<br />

your jurisdiction, that you may be able to constra<strong>in</strong> us or our<br />

heirs by ecclesiastical censure, if we should at any time transgress<br />

the said peace.<br />

"<br />

And if it sometimes happens that some of us, or all, or<br />

one, rashly presume, or strive or shall strive to presume, to<br />

contravene it, and by <strong>this</strong> might arise grave peril both to<br />

our souls and to those of our heirs ; and no small loss might<br />

threaten our bodies and possessions, we implore your holy<br />

Paternity to give commands to some one of the suffragans of<br />

the archbishop of Canterbury to compel us and our heirs to<br />

the preservation of the aforesaid peace, even as is more fully<br />

conta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> the documents drawn up concern<strong>in</strong>g it : otherwise<br />

that you appo<strong>in</strong>t by your authority as is <strong>can</strong>onical<br />

contradictors concern<strong>in</strong>g that peace, etc.<br />

" And for the consummation of <strong>this</strong> our petition we have<br />

appended to the present document our seals." J<br />

And when <strong>this</strong> had been concluded the lord k<strong>in</strong>g of England<br />

and the lord k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> became, as is to be hoped,<br />

<strong>in</strong>dissoluble friends, without pretence and m<strong>in</strong>ute contention<br />

about words.<br />

And when they had said farewell one to the other, the<br />

lord k<strong>in</strong>g of England came to the southern parts of England.<br />

And the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> betook himself to the farther parts<br />

of his own land.<br />

And the army of the k<strong>in</strong>g of England upon its return<br />

1 This document is placed s.a. 1237 <strong>in</strong> Feed., i, 377. But Innocent IV<br />

was pope from 1243 to 1254.

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