Source:Scotichronicon (Lib. IX, Cap. XLIX)
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| "Lib. IX, Cap. XLIX" Scotichronicon (Goodall vol. 2) |
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Hoc in anno facta eſt magna valde fames in Francia, maxime in Aquitania, ita ut homines herbas campeftres, ficut animalia, comederent : valebat enim fextarius bladi centum folidos in Pictavia ; et fecuta eſt magna peſtilentia. Eodem anno Theobaldus Campaniæ comes exercitum colligens, adverſus regem Ludovicum inſurgere at temptavit. Quod agnofcens rex, ex adverſo cum exercitu uſque ad nemus Vincennarum properabat. Quo audito, comes ad eum nuncios miſit, rogitans, ut iram deponens, offenfam remitteret. Et, ut in oculis ejus gratiain inveniret, duas eidem villas, ſciz. Brayum et Moſterolium in Fordiona, tradidit imperpetuum quietè poffidendas.
Anno Domini millefimo docenteſimo trigeſimo quinto, Alexander rex Scotiæ, collecto exercitu, Galwalliam intravit, terram fedaturus, et de rebellibus fe ulturus. Quod indigenæ comperientes, dum rex cum fuo exercitu in papilionibus fuis quiefceret, de montibus et filvis exeuntes, inopinatè affilierunt regem. Ipfe enim locus paludidus ple nus, et herbâ viſu tenus formofus, non parvam fiduciam eis dabat. In quos comes Roffenſis Machentagard à tergo valide debacchatus, mul tos proftravit, et multos fugere compulit. Thomas autem filius Alani domini de Galwallia nothus, qui antea, patre vivente, filiam reguli de Man to defponfaverat, dux hujus ſceleris cum fautore ſuo Gilroth Hiberniam rediit. In craftino quoque Galwallenſes omnes qui collo funes imponebant, et gratiam regis et pacem pofcebant, benignè rex admifit in pacem fuam : quia etfi, ut prædiximus, juſtitiam ſuam ſemper exer cuit, rigorem tamen ſuum mifericordiâ interdum temperavit : quia, ut dicit CASSIODORUS in epiſtola, Benigni principis eſt, ad ce mentiæ "commodum tranfilire terminos æquitatum ; quando ſola eſt miſeri “cordia cui omnes virtutes honorabiliter cedere non recuſant." Tho mas denuo baſtardus, magni Alani filius qui fuprà, ex Hibernia cum quodam filio regis Hiberniæ et aliis multis ad Galwalliam redüt, et mox ibidem veniens, naves confregit, ne Hibernici de fuga cogitarent. Qui ftatim videns fuos regiæ majeſtati non poffe reſiſtere, confilio cpifcopi Candidæ - caſa, necnon Patricä comitis de Dunbar, et abbatis de Melros, pacem regis humiliter petiit. Quem rex in Caſtro Puella rum ad tempus detinuit, ac fic abire permifit. Reliquos Hibernienſes de patria fugere volentes, cives de Glaſgow uno impetu occiderunt. Sed duos natu majores apud. Edinburgh rex ab equis diſcerpi præcepit. Ipfi quoque Scoti, eo tempore, de exercitu regis in reditu ſuo, inauditâ crudelitate terras Galwalliæ deſpoliaverunt et ecclefias, adeo ut mona chum apud Glenlus, in extremis agentem, nudum relinquerent præter cilicium : et apud Tungland, Priorem cum facriſta in ecclefia inter ficerent. Obiit Willelmus Candidæ - caſæ epiſcopus ; cui ſucceſſit Gilbertus[1] monachus et magiſter noviciorum de Melros. Ipfo anno Alex ander rex Scotiæ dedit Marjoriam fororem ſuam mareſcallo Angliæ comiti de Penbrugh, in die Sancti Petri ad vincula, apud Berwicum.[2]
In this year there was a very great famine in France, especially in Aquitaine, so that the people ate the herbs of the plains, as well as the animals; and there was a great pestilence. In the same year, Theobald, Count of Campania, gathering an army, attempted to rise against King Louis. Acknowledging this, the king hastened from the enemy with his army as far as the forest of Vincennes. When the count heard this, he sent messengers to him, begging him to put down his anger and remit the offence. And, in order to find favor in his eyes, two of the same towns, ſciz. Bray and Moſteroli in Fordion, he delivered up the perpetual peace of trust.
In the thirty-fifth year of the Lord's 1000th year, Alexander king of Scotland, having collected an army, entered Galwallia, to conquer the land, and to take vengeance on the rebels. The natives, finding that, while the king and his army were resting in their huts, came out of the mountains and valleys, and unexpectedly joined the king. For if the place was full of marshes, and the grass was thin in appearance, it gave them no little confidence. On whom the Count of Roffens Machentagard, dashing strongly in the rear, drove many away, and forced many to flee. But Thomas, the son of Alan, lord of Galwallia, who before, while his father was alive, had married the daughter of the king of Manto, the leader of this ſcelerate returned to Ireland with his supporter, Gilroth. In the craft, too, all the Galwallians who put ropes around their necks, and sought the king's favor and peace, the king graciously admitted to peace; , it is a benevolent prince, to whom it is convenient to "transcend the bounds of equity; when it is only the heart of the poor to whom all the virtues do not refuse to yield honorably." Tho mas, the bastard again, the son of the great Alan who had stolen, returned from Ireland with a certain son of the King of Ireland and many others to Galwallia, and immediately arriving there, he broke up the ships, lest the Irish should think of flight. He who soon saw that they could not resist the king's majesty, the confidants of Candida's house, as well as Patrick, the count of Dunbar and the abbot of Melros, humbly begged the king's peace. Whom the king detained for a time in Castle Puella, and permitted him to depart. The rest of the Irish, wanting to flee from their country, killed the citizens of Glasgow in one attack. But the two older ones at The king ordered Edinburgh to be cut from the horses. The Scots also, at that time, from the king's army on their return, despoiled the lands of Galwallia and the churches with unheard-of cruelty, so much so that at Glenlus they left the monks, who were acting in the extremes, naked except for their shirt; William Candidæ, bishop of the house, died; who was succeeded by Gilbert, a monk and master of the novices of Melros. In the same year, Alexander, king of Scotland, gave Marjorie as a bridegroom to his English marshal, the Earl of Penbrugh, on St. Peter's day at the chains, at Berwick.
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- 1235 - Alexander king of Scotland, having collected an army, entered Galloway, to conquer the land, and to take vengeance on the rebels. The natives, finding that, while the king and his army were resting in their huts, coming out of the mountains and valleys, unexpectedly joined the king. For the place was full of marshes, and the grass was thin and beautiful, and gave them no little confidence. On whom earl of Ross Machentagard, having attacked with great force in the rear, drove away many of them, and forced many to flee.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bower vol. 2 1759, p. 61.
- ↑ Bower vol. 2 1759, p. 62.
- Bower, Walter (1759) [c. 1447]. Goodall, Walter (ed.). Joannis de Fordun Scotichronicon, cum Supplementis ac Continuatione Walteri Boweri, Inſulæ Sancti Columbæ Abbatis : E Codicibus MSS. editum, cum notis et variantibus lectionibus (in Latina). II. Edinburgh: R. Fleming. hdl:2027/nyp.33433006210425.