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a famine arose in their aimy. Malcolm, who had Edgar the 

 Atheling with him, came with an army into Lownays, where 

 Robert, Duke of Normandy, recalled Edgar to himself; and by 

 his aid the two Kings were reconciled, on condition that Malcolm 

 should obey William as he had before obeyed his father, and 

 that he should hold the possessions in England which he had 

 held, paying 12 marks of gold annually. And Edgar also was 

 reconciled with the King. The chronicles of Scotland relate 

 that it was revealed to this King Malcolm that one of the great 

 lords of his realm, with the assent of the other great men, was 

 plotting to destroy him with poison. He summoned the man 

 who was accused and many of the other great men to go a hunting 

 with him. When they were come King Malcolm assigned them 

 their watches, retaining with himself only the one who had been 

 accused. When they were separated from all the men in the 

 wood, the King said to him : — " Traitor, confess now your felony 

 like a knight, for in your heart you meant at another time to be 

 my murderer ; but as your plot is known, I am prepared to defend 

 myself." The man fell at the King's feet, and gave such pledges 

 to assure his good behaviour as the King required. On his 

 departure from Scotland King William the Red rebuilt the Castle 

 of Carlisle, which the Danes had destroyed 200 years then past. 

 At that time the new Church of Durham was begun. King 

 Malcolm of Scotland, the Bishop William Garleff, and the Prior 

 Turgot laid the first stone thereof. 



At this time King Malcolm of Scotland and his son Edward 

 were killed at Alnwick by treachery, as it is asserted. The Con- 

 stable of the Castle, pretending to surrender it, came armed on 

 horseback, with the keys hanging from the point of his lance, and, 

 making a pretence of handing them over to King Malcolm, he 

 struck him to the heart dead. Some of his men killed the King's 

 son. In this affray all who had come to lay Northumberland 

 waste were routed. Many of the men were drowned in the Alne 

 on St. Brice's Day (13th November) by a sudden flood caused by 

 the rain. Malcolm was buried at Tynemouth. Queen Mar- 

 garet, his wife, died of grief the third day after she had received 

 the news in the Castle of Edinburgh, where she was being 

 besieged by her Lord's brother Donald, who wished to have her 

 for wife as soon as he heard of his brother's death. Before she 



