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378 SCOTTISH ANNALS
and sir Alan Durward, 1 to treat more fully with the king of
England and his council concerning the affair aforesaid.
And when they had come and spoken with the said William,
who had preceded them, they returned, leaving no testimony
in public concerning the success of their affair with the king
and the community of the realm.
1260, Oct.
FLOBES HISTORIARUM, VOL. II, PP. 459-460, S.A. 1260. 3
Of the arrival in London of the king of Scotland.
Also in these days and this month [of October] 3 the king
of Scotland came to London, led by various causes ; namely
to visit the king of England and the queen, and to exercise
lordship and dominion over his earldom of Huntingdon.
Moreover he declared the more especial cause of his arrival,
and asked from the king four thousand marks to be given him,
as he said had been previously promised him by the same
also the whole land between
king in the espousal of his wife ;
Tyne and Tweed, which he asserted had been formerly given
to his predecessors ; also aid of men from the king and
the magnates of the land against his enemies, even as he had
formerly promised them and the nobles of Scotland by his
signed document, taken charge of and sent by brother
William de Horton.
And there were then present in London the kings of
England and of Germany ; and therefore there was there,
and ought to have been, so great display that the whole
surrounding country endured insufferable expense.
And after a few days [Alexander's] queen followed him, very
near to her confinement, coming for the sake of visiting the king
and the queen and England, and, God willing, to be delivered
there near to them. And she was conducted by the venerable
man bishop [Henry] of Whithorn. And her younger brother
Edmund met her and she was received in formal ;
procession
at St. Albans in the hour of vespers, and honourably enter-
1 Alan Durward had married Marjory, an illegitimate daughter of Alex-
ander II. Sc. Peer., i, 6.
2 Of, Ann. of Dunst., in A.M., iii, 217, s.a. 1260 :
"
In the same year
the king of Scotland came to London with his wife, who was pregnant, the
daughter of the king of England. And when he had stayed there for some
days he sought permission from the lord king and returned, leaving his wife
with her mother until she should be confined. And she bore a daughter at
Windsor." V. infra, s.a. 1261.
3 They arrived on the 30th of October, according to Fitz-Thedmar, 45.
On the 16th NovemberlHenry'made an announcement concerning the
Scottish queen's approaching confinement ; Feed., i, 715-716.