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Chronicle of Lanercost 169<br />

Throughout all these doings the King of England was not in<br />

<strong>Scotland</strong>, but his son, with the aforesaid army. But the King was<br />

slowly approaching the Scottish border with the Queen, by many<br />

easy stages and borne in a litter on the backs of horses on account<br />

of his age and infirmity and ; on the feast of S. Michael l<br />

he<br />

arrived at the Priory of Lanercost, which is<br />

eight miles from<br />

Carlisle, and t<strong>here</strong> he remained until near Easter. 2<br />

Meantime his<br />

kinsman, the Earl of Athol, who had encouraged the party of the<br />

said Robert to make him king, had been captured, and by command<br />

of the King was taken to London, w<strong>here</strong> he was drawn, hanged,<br />

and beheaded, and his head was set upon London Bridge above<br />

the heads of William Wallace and Simon Fraser, because he was<br />

akin to the King.<br />

After <strong>this</strong>, on the vigil of S. Scholastica virgin, 3 two brothers of<br />

Robert de Brus, Thomas and Alexander, Dean of Glasgow, and<br />

Sir Reginald de Crawford, desiring to avenge themselves upon the<br />

people of Galloway, invaded their country with eighteen ships and<br />

galleys, having with them a certain kinglet of Ireland, and the<br />

Lord of Cantyre and other large following. Against them came<br />

Dougal Macdoual (that is the son of Doual), a chief among the<br />

Gallovidians, with his countrymen, defeated them and captured all<br />

but a few who escaped in two galleys. He ordered the Irish<br />

kinglet and the Lord of Cantyre to be beheaded and their heads to<br />

be carried to the King of England at Lanercost. 4<br />

Thomas de Brus and his brother Alexander and Sir Reginald de<br />

Crawford, who had been severely wounded in their capture by<br />

lances and arrows, he likewise took alive to the King, who<br />

pronounced sentence upon them, and caused Thomas to be drawn<br />

at the tails of horses in Carlisle on the Friday after the first Sunday<br />

in Lent, 5 and then to be hanged and afterwards beheaded. Also<br />

he commanded the other two to be hanged on the same day and<br />

afterwards beheaded ; whose heads, with the heads of the four<br />

others aforesaid, were set upon the three gates of Carlisle, and the<br />

head of Thomas de Brus upon the keep of Carlisle.<br />

Nigel, the<br />

third brother of Robert, had been hanged already at Newcastle.<br />

About the same time a certain cardinal named Peter came<br />

to England, sent a latere from my lord the Pope to establish peace<br />

1<br />

29th September.<br />

2 26th March, 1 307.<br />

3 loth February, 1306-7.<br />

4 Bain's Cal. Doc. Scot., ii., 1905.<br />

His writs are dated from Lanercost till 4th March, 1306-7.<br />

5 1 7th February, 1306-7.

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