Manuscript: Faustina B. IX

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[d]eficit hic multum
Anno mocolxxxiio Iocelinus Glasguensis episcopus, ⁊ E’ Maylrosensis abbas, ⁊ Osbertus ab
bas Calcoensis, cum aliis honestis uiris, Romam pro regis regnique negociis ierunt, causasque
suas Deo opitulante caute ⁊ prudenter peregerunt, sani ⁊ alacres inde ad sua redierunt.
Per ipsos etiam Lucius iii papa, auream rosam Regi Willelmo Scottorum cum paterna benedictione
transmisit. ¶Henricus rex senior1 Anglie transfretauit, & Deo suffragante, pacem
fecit inter regem Philippum Francie, ⁊ comitem Filippum Flandrensem. ¶Obiit Waldeuus
comes de Dunbar, cui successit Patricius filius eius. ¶Imperator Fredericus nepotem suum
ducem Saxonie Henricum generum H’ regis Anglie ob suam iniuriam in exilium ire compulit.
Ipse uero necessitate compulsus, cum suis ad regem H’ in Normanniam tristis ⁊ merens ue
nit, quem rex honorifice suscepit ⁊ locum ei ad peregrinandum designauit. ¶Multi pis
catores cum nauibus suis mense Septembri in mari inter Hertelpol, ⁊ Ꝩitebi nocte mi
serabiliter perierunt.




Anno moclxxxiiio Will’ rex Scottorum filiam suam Ysabel, quam genuit ex filia
Roberti Auenel Roberto de Brus honorifice dedit. ¶Dissensio praua atque peruersa
orta est inter fratres uterinos filios H’ regis Anglie, per quam multa mala emerserunt, ⁊ plu
res presentem uitam amiserunt. ¶H’ iunior rex Anglie obiit anno xiiiio coronationis
sue apud opidum quod dicitur Martel iiio idus Iunii.



Anno mocolxxxoiiiio obiit Ricardus archiepiscopus Cantuarie. ¶Henricus rex Anglie
propter ecclesie pacem ⁊ pauperum Philippo regi Francie licet inuitus suum fecit hominium, ⁊ post pente
costen prospere uenit in Angliam. ¶Petrus abbas Cisterciensis est electus ad episcopatum de Araz:
cui successit abbas de Fotenei. W’ rex Scottorum dedit filiam suam Ada Patricio comiti. Obiit
Simon episcopus Mureuie nostre congregationis x kal’ Octobris. ¶Controuersia que fuit inter
ecclesiam de Melros ⁊ homines de Wedhale super pasturam foreste regis Deo opitulante coram rege
Willelmo ⁊ Dauid comite fratre suo, ⁊ coram episcopis, comitibus, baronibus, ⁊ multis aliis probis hominibus, in die
Sancti Luce euuangeliste super Crosseleige, per Ricardum de Moreuile constabularium regis, ⁊ per alios xii
fideles homines, qui eo die presente rege super reliquias ecclesie nostre cum timore ⁊ tremore iurauerunt ⁊
ueraciter affirmauerunt, quod foresta regis tendit usque ad uiam que uadit ad occidentem partem ecclesie
beate Marie de Wedhale, ⁊ est pastura ecclesie de Melros, usque ad terminos de Wedhale, ⁊
usque ad riuulum qui uocatur Fasseburne, ex donatione trium regum ▬▬2 scilicet Dauid, Malcolmi, Willelmi,
& per iiii siue v Romanorum pontificum priuilegia firmiter confirmata, ⁊ irrefragabiliter
solidata. ¶▬3 Venerabilis Balduuinus episcopus Wirecestrie electus est ad archiepiscopatum
Cantuarie;  

Notes

1 JT: The scribe has used symbols (//) to indicate an alternative word order: senior rex.
2 DB: Scilicet can be discerned dimly as the erased word.
3 DB: First attempt at a majuscule initial erased.
This is greatly deficient


In the 1182nd year Jocelin bishop of Glasgow and A[rnold] abbot of Melrose and Osbert abbot of Kelso with other honest men went to Rome for the sake of the business of the king and the kingdom, and accomplished their purpose carefully and wisely, by God’s aid, and returned to their [country] from there bright and healthy. For Pope Lucius III sent over with them a golden rose to William king of Scots with a fatherly blessing. ¶King Henry the elder crossed the sea and, with God’s assistance, made peace between King Philip of France and Earl Philip of Flanders. ¶Waldef earl of Dunbar died; his son Patrick succeeded him. ¶The emperor Frederick forced his nephew Henry duke of Saxony, son-in-law of H[enry] king of England to go into exile because of his wrong. He indeed, forced by necessity, went in sadness and sorrow with his followers to King H[enry] in Normandy, and the king received him honourably. And he specified that place to go into exile. ¶Many fishermen with their boats perished wretchedly by night in the sea between Hartlepool and Whitby in the month of September.




In the 1183rd year William king of Scots honourably gave his daughter Isabel—who he had fathered from the daughter of Robert Avenel—to Robert de Brus. ¶A depraved and perverse disagreement rose up among the sons of H[enry] king of England with the same mother, by which many evil deeds originated and very many lost this present life. ¶H[enry] the younger king of England died in the 14th year of his coronation at the town which is called Martel, on 11 June.



In the 1184th year Richard archbishop of Canterbury died. ¶Henry king of England, although unwilling, performed his homage to Philip king of France on account of the peace of the Church and the poor. ¶Peter abbot of Cîteaux was elected to the bishopric of Arras; the abbot of Fontaines succeeded him. W[illiam] king of Scots gave his daughter Ada to Earl Patrick. Simon bishop of Moray, one of our congregation, died on 17 September. ¶A dispute which was between the church of Melrose and the men of Wedale over the pasture of the king’s forest, with God’s aid, before King William and Earl David his brother, and before bishops, earls, barons and many other worthy men, on the day of St Luke the Evangelist1 above Crosslee, by Richard de Moreville the king’s constable and by 12 faithful men, who on that day, with the king present, swore with fear and trembling on the relics of our church and truthfully affirmed, that the king’s forest reaches up to the road which runs to the west side of the church of the blessed Mary of Wedale, and is the pasture of the church of Melrose, up to the bounds of Wedale, and up to the stream which is called ‘Fasseburne’: securely confirmed and unbreakably made firm from the donations of three kings, ▬▬ namely David, Máel Coluim and William, and by the privileges of 4 or 5 popes.2▬The Venerable Baldwin bishop of Worcester was elected to the archiepiscopacy of Canterbury.

Notes

1 DB: I.e., 18 October.
2 DB: The prose lacks a main verb. A non-contemporary charter purports to be a record of this: London, BL Cotton Charter no.XVIII.18 (RRS, ii, no. 253; http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/digipal/manuscripts/716/ [accessed 20 Feb 2023]).