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360 SCOTTISH ANNALS
1248
MATTHEW PARIS, CHRONTCA MAJORA, VOL. V, P. 41, S.A. 1248. l
Moreover earl Patrick died, who was held to be the most
powerful among the magnates of Scotland.
And he died signed by the cross, on pilgrimage in the
company of the lord king of the French, being believed to
have taken the cross to be reconciled with God and St. Oswin.
For he had unjustly distressed and injured the house of Tynemouth,
a cell of St. Albans, and the special domicile of that
blessed king and martyr Oswin, whose body also is known
to lie there.
1249
MATTHEW PARIS, CHRONICA MAJORA, VOL. V, PP. 88-89, S.A.
1249. 2
Of the lamentable death of Alexander, king of Scots.
During the cycle of the same year, on the fifth 3 before the
Nones of July, died Alexander, king of Scots ; a man wise
and modest, who, after reigning many years justly, success-
fully and in peace, in his last days prompted by greed is said
to have swerved from the path of justice.
For, seeking an opportunity of oppression, he kindled
gratuitous wrath against one of the noblest of his realm, by
name Owen 4 of Argyle, a vigorous and very handsome
knight. And purposing to disinherit him he laid against
him a charge of treason, because in the last preceding year
he had done homage to the king of Norway for the possession
of a certain island which the father of this Owen had held of
the same king, and for homage to him had possessed for many
years in peace.
Scotland.
The island is situated between Orkney and
5
So Owen, fearing the threats of his lord the king of Scotland,
wrote to him, saying that he should render entire the
1 Cf. M.P., H.A., iii, 40 ; Madden, note, ibid., iii, 562. Abbr. Chr.,
ibid., iii, 305.
2
Cf. Fl. His., ii, 362. For Alexander's death and shield cf. M.P., H.A.,
iii, 65.
His death is mentioned by Ann. of Dunst., in A.M., iii, 179,
Ann. of Tewk., ibid., i, 140, s.a. 1250. Ann. of Furn., in Chr. of
s.a. 1249.
Ste., etc.,
ii, 535, s.a. 1249.
3 3rd July. Alexander died on the 8th of July Sc. ; Peer., i, 6.
"
Be-
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fore the harvest," Ann. of Dunst., u.s. About the nativity of St. John,"
T.W., Chr., in A.M., iv, 98 [24th June].
4 Oenum ; Angus ?
5 The island in the Pentland Firth is Stroma.