Flos regum regnique decor decus omne uirorum
Willelmus celum rex pius ingreditur
Annis in regno iam quinquaginta peractis
In Striuilino mortuus ille fuit
Pridie rex obiit nonas in pace Decembris
Qui Brodocensi conditur almus humo
Anno moccoxoiiiio consecratus
est predictus A’ abbas de Melros in episcopum Cathensem a domino
Willelmo
Maleuicino episcopo Sancti Andree, mense Maio, die Sancti Mamerti episcopi, cui
suc
cessit dompnus Hugo de Clippestun monachus eiusdem domus idus Maii. ¶Pie
re
cordationis dominus Willelmus rex Scott’ uiam uniuerse carnis aggrediens, regno
suo in summa pace permanente, felici exitu
migrauit ad Dominum, anno regni sui
xloixo ⁊ etatis sue lxxoiio, ii no’ Decembris. Dominus Alexander filius predicti Wil
regis cum non modico agmine mangnatum ad Sconam profectus, ibidem tam
hono
rifice quam pacifice, more regio, ⁊ digna celebritate regni Scott’
guberna
cula suscepit, anno etatis sue xviio, viiio idus Decembris. Dompnus Willelmus
celerarius de
Melros electus est in abbatem de Glenlus. Dedicata est ecclesia Sancte Ma
rie de
Hawic a domino A’ episcopo Cathenensi iiii kal’ Iunii. ¶Dompnus abbas Cisterciensis
uisitationis sue gratia in Angliam // uenit. ¶Obiit pie
memorie Iohannes episcopus de Dunkel
den no’ Octobris, post quem electus est Hugo
dictus de Sigillo. ¶Dompnus Alanus abbas de Neubotil humili deuotione ad propriam domum
suam rediens curam regiminis in
capitulo resignauit viii kal’ Iunii, ¶
cui successit dompnus Ricardus celerarius
eiusdem domus. ¶Intrauit magister
Stephanus archiepiscopus Cantuarium in Angliam inter pascha
& pentecosten
exultantibus omnibus ⁊ dicentibus, benedictus qui uenit in nomine Domini
¶Cessauit
interdictum in Anglia circa kal’ Iulii. ¶Missus est in Angliam quidam
ex clericis
domini pape Pandulfus nomine ut cor regis emolliret ⁊ ad satisfactionem congruam
suaderet, qui compacta nec peracta pace Romam rediit. In cuius reditu missus est ⁊
alius uir
quidem magne opinionis nomine Nicholaus professione1 monachus Cisterciensis officio summus apostolice
sedis
penitentialis, ad hoc quidem missus ut prolocutam formam pacis legationis sue
autoritate confirmaret, ⁊ congrua satisfactione suscepta ipsum regem ab anathema
tis
uinculo absolueret. Interim autem Philippus rex Francie haut dubium quin diuina
dispo
sitione excitatus aduersus eum cum omni impetu exercitus sui insurgens etiam
usque ad
mare Anglicum peruenerat. Sed ⁊ supradictus P’ simplex propheta in faciem
regis inpropria
exaggerauit ⁊ regie dignitatis amissionem constanter predicauit,
⁊ quia filius
bone mulieris post eum regnaturus \esset/
intimauit, quod dictum ▬ esse,
de domino Philippo sancte
matris ecclesie filio arbitramur. Tam multiplici igitur
terrore perterritus in aduentu supradicti
cardinalis, Deo ⁊ sancte matri ecclesie
Romane ⁊ summo pontifici humagium suum ⁊
regni sui subiectionem perpetuam mira
mansuetudine in manibus legati offerebat
ad cuius subiectionis testimomium ⁊
humagii recognitionem redditum annualem
scilicet m marcas,
ex proprio talamo Deo ⁊ summo pontifici ⁊ omnibus eiusdem
successoribus,
se ⁊ omnes heredes suos exibituros tam ipse quam magnates terre sue
tactis etiam sanctuariis
pepigerunt. Additum etiam est in iuramento quod plenam
faceret restitutionem omnium quecumque
ab initio interdictionis terre sue ab
ecclesiis ⁊ ecclesiasticis uiris personis extorserat,
et quod terram
suam a domino papa quasi summo rege inposterum teneret. Rex igitur hec
Flower of kings, adornment of the kingdom,
complete honour of men,
William the pious king enters heaven.
Fifty years having passed now in the kingship,
He was dead in Stirling,
On 4 December he died in peace;
The gentle one is laid in the soil of Arbroath.
In the 1214th year the aforesaid
A[dam], abbot of Melrose, was consecrated bishop of Caithness by the lord William
Malveisin, bishop of St Andrews, in the month of May, on the day of St Mamertus the
bishop;1 Dom Hugh of Clipstone, a monk of the same
house, succeeded him on 15 May. ¶The lord William, of pious remembrance, king of Scots,
going the way of all flesh, his kingdom
continuing in perfect peace, departed to the lord with an auspicious death in the 49th year of his reign, the 72nd of
his age, on 4 December. The lord Alexander, son of the aforesaid king William, proceeded
with no mean crowd of magnates to Scone, and there received the government of the
kingdom of the Scots, both peacefully and honourably, in royal fashion and with fitting
celebration, in the 17th year of his age, on 6 December. Dom
William, the cellarer of Melrose, was elected abbot of Glenluce. The church of St Mary
of Hawick was dedicated by the lord A[dam], bishop of Caithness, on 15 May. ¶The
lord2 abbot of Cîteaux came // England by reason of his visitation. ¶John, bishop of Dunkeld,
of pious memory, died on 7 October; Hugh, called ‘of the seal’, was elected after him.
¶Dom Alan, abbot of Newbattle, with humble devotion returning to his own house,3 resigned the charge of government, in the chapter, on 25 May;
¶Dom Richard, the cellarer of the same house,
succeeded him. ¶Master Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, arrived in England between
Easter and Pentecost,4 with everyone
rejoicing and saying: ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord’. ¶The interdict
ceased in England around the beginning of July. ¶A certain man from among the clerks of
the lord pope, Pandulf by name, was sent to England in order to soften the king’s heart
and negotiate towards a commensurate reparation, who returned to Rome without having
accomplished a complete peace. On his return a certain other man was sent, Nicholas by
name, of great repute—by profession a Cistercian monk, by office the chief penitentiary
of the apostolic see—who was sent at this particular point in order to confirm, by his
authority as legate, the form of peace which had been discussed previously; and, having
received commensurate reparation from him, to release the king from the chain of
anathema. In the meantime, however, Philip king of France was aroused against him [King
John] (it is not at all doubtful but that this was by divine planning), and invading
with an attack of all his army, reached the English Channel. But also P[eter] the
Simple, the abovementioned prophet, heaped up affronts to the king’s face, and
steadfastly predicted the loss of royal rank; and because he announced that the son of a
good woman
\would/
reign after him, we infer this pronouncement ▬ to be about the lord Philip, son of holy mother church.
Frightened, therefore, by such diverse dread, he—at the arrival of the above-mentioned
cardinal—presented with astonishing meekness, in the legate’s hands, his homage and the
perpetual subjection of his kingdom to God and to holy mother church; and, after
halidoms had been touched, the magnates of the country, to the same extent as the king,
pledged themselves and all their heirs who would be produced, as testimony to their
subjection and recognition of homage, an annual render from his own treasury to God and
the supreme pontiff and to all his successors, namely 1000
marks. It was also added to the oath that he would
make full restoration of everything whatsoever that he had extorted from churches and
from individual men churchmen from the start of the interdict on his country;
and that he would hold his land from the lord pope as if placed there by a supreme king.
The king, therefore,