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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 365<br />

were all decorated with choice and costly robes, as was fitt<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>in</strong> a so renowned noviciate.<br />

The k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> married Margaret, the daughter of the<br />

k<strong>in</strong>g of England.<br />

And on the morrow of Christmas, that is on the day of<br />

St. Stephen, 1 the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> married the daughter of<br />

the k<strong>in</strong>g of England. 2<br />

And because the people hurry<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> troops and masses<br />

crushed one another <strong>in</strong>ord<strong>in</strong>ately that they might be present<br />

and see the celebration of such nuptials, the celebration of<br />

marriage was performed <strong>in</strong> the earliest morn<strong>in</strong>g, secretly and<br />

before the expected time.<br />

T<strong>here</strong> were t<strong>here</strong> <strong>in</strong>deed so many diversities of people, so<br />

many numerous hosts of nobles of English, French and Scots, so<br />

many large troops also of knights, adorned with wanton robes,<br />

va<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> their silks and chang<strong>in</strong>g adornments, that their profane<br />

and wanton vanity, if it were described to the full, would<br />

produce <strong>in</strong> the hearers' ears wonder and disgust.<br />

For a thousand knights and more appeared t<strong>here</strong> on behalf<br />

of the English k<strong>in</strong>g at the wedd<strong>in</strong>g clothed <strong>in</strong> silk and, to<br />

speak <strong>in</strong> the vulgar tongue, <strong>in</strong> co<strong>in</strong>tises. And on the morrow<br />

they threw all those aside, and presented themselves at court<br />

<strong>in</strong> new robes.<br />

And on behalf of the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> sixty knights and<br />

more, and many the equivalent of knights, adorned with<br />

sufficient appropriateness, presented themselves t<strong>here</strong> to the<br />

of all.<br />

gaze<br />

The k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> did homage to the lord k<strong>in</strong>g of the English,<br />

by reason of the hold<strong>in</strong>g which he holds of the k<strong>in</strong>gdom of England.<br />

So the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> did homage to the k<strong>in</strong>g of the<br />

English, by reason of the possessions which he holds of the<br />

lord k<strong>in</strong>g of the English, to wit <strong>in</strong> the k<strong>in</strong>gdom of England :<br />

namely for Lothian and the other lands.<br />

And when <strong>in</strong> addition to <strong>this</strong> the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> was<br />

required to do homage and fealty with allegiance to his lord<br />

the k<strong>in</strong>g of the English by reason of the k<strong>in</strong>gdom of <strong>Scotland</strong>,<br />

as his predecessors had done to the English k<strong>in</strong>gs, accord<strong>in</strong>g<br />

as it is clearly written <strong>in</strong> the chronicles <strong>in</strong> many places, the<br />

k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> replied that he had come thither <strong>in</strong> peace J<br />

1 26th December. So G. of C., cont<strong>in</strong>., G.R., ii, 203. Fitz-Thedmar,<br />

18. J. of T., <strong>in</strong> Fl. of W., ii, 183. Ann. of W<strong>in</strong>ch., <strong>in</strong> A.M., ii, 93. Ann.<br />

of Wore., ibid., iv, 441. T.W., Chr., ibid., iv, 103.<br />

Cf. Ann. of Dunst., <strong>in</strong> A.M., iii, 183. Ann. of Tewkesb., ibid., i, 146.<br />

2 " The nuptials were celebrated at York by the archbishop [Walter de<br />

Gray] of that place," Ann. of Tewkesb., u.s,

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