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380 SCOTTISH ANNALS<br />

1264<br />

FLORES HISTORIARUM, VOL. II, P. 488.<br />

Nott<strong>in</strong>gham Castle was taken by k<strong>in</strong>g [Henry HI], and the<br />

Scots came to the k<strong>in</strong>g's aid.<br />

T<strong>here</strong>after 1<br />

[Henry went] to Nott<strong>in</strong>gham. . . . And<br />

nobles from the northern parts came t<strong>here</strong> to the k<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> aid ;<br />

namely John de Balliol, and Robert de Bruce, and Peter de<br />

Bruce, and many other barons, with many thousand soldiers ;<br />

and t<strong>here</strong> also the lord k<strong>in</strong>g held the feast of Easter. 2<br />

1264, Ma y-<br />

FLORES HISTORIARUM, VOL. II,<br />

p. 496.<br />

. . . Many others also were captured :<br />

de Balliol, Robert de Bruce, John Cum<strong>in</strong>, and the other<br />

barons of <strong>Scotland</strong> almost all the foot-soldiers whom ; they<br />

had brought with them from <strong>Scotland</strong> be<strong>in</strong>g sla<strong>in</strong>, to a great<br />

number. 4<br />

. . .<br />

3 namely John<br />

1265 5<br />

ANNALS or FURNESS, IN CHRONICLES OF STEPHEN, ETC., VOL.<br />

II, P. 549, S.A. 1265.<br />

6 In the same year died the k<strong>in</strong>g of Man and after his<br />

;<br />

death [Man] was made tributary to the kii\g of <strong>Scotland</strong>, 7<br />

who paid for it def<strong>in</strong>ite tribute yearly to the k<strong>in</strong>g of Norway.<br />

And k<strong>in</strong>gs ceased to reign <strong>in</strong> Man.<br />

1267 8<br />

1 After<br />

8th March.<br />

"<br />

the first sabbath of the Lord's passion," ibid. ; Saturday,<br />

2 20th April.<br />

3 At the battle of Lewes, 14th May. The Scots were on the k<strong>in</strong>g's side<br />

aga<strong>in</strong>st the barons.<br />

4 Ann. of Furn., <strong>in</strong> Chr. of Ste., etc., ii, 544 :<br />

" The rest who fell <strong>in</strong> <strong>this</strong><br />

battle [of Lewes] were unimportant men of the common people, and especially<br />

of Scots." Of. Rishanger, 27.<br />

5 Under <strong>this</strong> year Fitz-Thedmar, 83, <strong>in</strong>cludes <strong>Scotland</strong> among the " lands<br />

which perta<strong>in</strong> to the dignity of the lord k<strong>in</strong>g."<br />

8<br />

Magnus Olafson. (He was knighted by Henry III at Easter, 1256 ;<br />

M.P., Chr. Maj., v, 549.) His death is placed <strong>in</strong> 1265 by the Chr. of Man ;<br />

<strong>in</strong> Langebek, Scriptores, iii, 236.<br />

7<br />

Cf. Chr. of Man, u.s., s.a. 1266 ;<br />

over to Alexander, k<strong>in</strong>g of Scots."<br />

" The k<strong>in</strong>gship of the Isles was given<br />

8 The ecclesiastics of all <strong>Scotland</strong> were present or represented at card<strong>in</strong>al<br />

Ottobon's council <strong>in</strong> St. Paul's " about the festival of St. Mark the<br />

Evangelist," Fitz-Thedmar, 102. [25th April.]

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