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376 SCOTTISH ANNALS
125?
MATTHEW PARIS, CHRONICA MAJORA, VOL. V, p. 656.
The nobles of Scotland direct the ways of their king.
About the period of those days 1 since the king of Scotland,
Alexander, from whose youth the greatest benefit was
hoped for the kingdom of Scotland, misgoverned too unbecomingly,
promoting and following foreigners and exalting
and appointing them over his native subjects, the inhabitants
and natives were indignant, and to prevent his
breaking out in worse ways they placed the king himself and
the queen under custody again and the ;
queen they removed
and guarded carefully, lest she should take after her father ;
should have
until, after the example of the Germans, 3
they
removed to a distance all the foreigners. And thenceforward
the nobles of Scotland held the reins
greater
of their kingdom with
freedom and safety. 4
They upbraided the queen moreover in that she had incited
and summoned her father to come upon them as an
enemy with his army, and do lamentable destruction. And
thus Robert de Ross, most eminent of all the northern
barons, was pitilessly and irrevocably ruined. For all his
goods which seemed saleable had for confiscation been exposed
for sale.
I258, 5 Nov.
MATTHEW PARIS, CHRONICA MAJORA, VOL. V, P. 724, S.A.
1258.
And while [Henry] stayed [at St. Albans] 6
messengers
arrived, asserting that Walter Cumin, 7 a most powerful earl
in Scotland, had yielded to fate, having fallen from his horse,
which had stumbled upon some obstacle ;
broken his legs, and expired.
and thus he had
1 The last event recorded is dated about the 29fch September ; ibid., 655!
2 ne patrissaret : read patriaret, " lest she should return to her country ? '
3 V. M.P., Chr. Maj., iii, 325.
4
Henry III now afforded favour to the Cumin party ; 6th November,
1258, in Feed., i, 670. For his previous opposition to it cf. Feed., i, 565-567
(20th September, 1255); 567 (21st September, 1255); 605, 606 (13th September,
1256).
"
5 In 1258 the Welsh rose against the English, trusting however in
this, that the king was taking action against the nobles of Scotland, who had
raised themselves against him, . . ." M.P., Chr. Maj., v, 675. There was
a definite agreement in 1258 between the princes and barons of Wales and
the Scottish barons ; Feed., i, 653-654.
6 22nd to 25th November ; M.P., v, 724.
7 The earl of Menteith.
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