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370 SCOTTISH ANNALS<br />

1255<br />

MATTHEW PAKIS, CHRONICA MAJORA, VOL. V, PP. 501-502,<br />

S.A. 1255. 1<br />

Robert de Ross and John de Balliol are seriously accused to<br />

the k<strong>in</strong>g of unfaithfully and dishonourably treat<strong>in</strong>g the k<strong>in</strong>gdom<br />

of <strong>Scotland</strong> and the queen.<br />

And dur<strong>in</strong>g the same times Robert de Ross and John de<br />

Balliol were seriously accused on the charge that they had<br />

unfaithfully and dishonourably controlled the k<strong>in</strong>gdom of<br />

<strong>Scotland</strong> and the k<strong>in</strong>g and queen whose ,<br />

tutelage had been<br />

<strong>in</strong>trusted to them. And the k<strong>in</strong>g was at that time <strong>in</strong> the<br />

northern parts of England, to wit at Nott<strong>in</strong>gham.<br />

The source of the accusation and disagreement.<br />

T<strong>here</strong> was a certa<strong>in</strong> physician well skilled and experienced<br />

<strong>in</strong> the art of medic<strong>in</strong>e, namely Reg<strong>in</strong>ald of Bath, sent by the<br />

queen of England, who eagerly desired the welfare and<br />

prosperity of her daughter the queen of Scots and of the k<strong>in</strong>g<br />

of Scots her husband, whom she loved as her adopted son,<br />

to watch over the health of the queen of <strong>Scotland</strong>, and of the<br />

k<strong>in</strong>g, and of their friends.<br />

And when <strong>this</strong> master Reg<strong>in</strong>ald came to Maidens' Castle,<br />

which is called Ed<strong>in</strong>burgh <strong>in</strong> the common tongue, and expla<strong>in</strong>ed<br />

the cause of his com<strong>in</strong>g, and showed letters both of<br />

the k<strong>in</strong>g and of the queen of the English bear<strong>in</strong>g witness to <strong>this</strong><br />

cause, he was received k<strong>in</strong>dly.<br />

And when he visited the queen <strong>in</strong> private, as is the custom<br />

of physicians, and <strong>in</strong>quired the cause of her distress and pallor,<br />

for he had found her sorrowful, she replied, " It is fitt<strong>in</strong>g<br />

to disclose to a physician the secrets of the body, even as to<br />

a priest are revealed the hidden th<strong>in</strong>gs of the m<strong>in</strong>d."<br />

And when master Reg<strong>in</strong>ald had learned the troubles of<br />

her m<strong>in</strong>d and body he severely reproved her guardians and<br />

magistrates. And after disputes and words of bitter altercation<br />

and even of threaten<strong>in</strong>g, he accused all the nobles of<br />

the k<strong>in</strong>g and queen and the guardians of the k<strong>in</strong>gdom as<br />

be<strong>in</strong>g guilty of treason, convicted and menaced them. So<br />

<strong>this</strong> physician Reg<strong>in</strong>ald after not many days fell mortally<br />

and t<strong>here</strong> were some who <strong>in</strong>s<strong>in</strong>uated<br />

sick and took to his bed ;<br />

and said that he had been poisoned.<br />

But when 2 he saw that he was irrevocably approach<strong>in</strong>g<br />

1 Cf. Fl. His., ii, 410. Abbr. Chr., <strong>in</strong> M.P., H.A., iii, 346. B.C., 132.<br />

2 " Flee<strong>in</strong>g to Oxford " is added <strong>in</strong> the marg<strong>in</strong>, written with a style.

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