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in marriage to Adam, Earl of Warenne, and this was the reason 

 that afterwards his heir, Florens, claimed the succession to the 

 Crown of Scotland after the death of Alexander. Therefore 

 John de Balliol gave him a large sum of money to resign his claim 

 of right. In the time of this King Malcolm the bishops of Scot- 

 land were dissevered from the rule and metropolitanship of the 

 Archbishop of York, and none of them ever after obeyed him 

 save the Bishop of Galloway alone. 



While Henry II. was in Normandy engaged in war with 

 France and his own sons, William, King of Scotland, entered 

 England with a great many soldiers from Flanders, and having 

 captured the Castles of Appleby and Burgh, besieged Carlisle" 

 The citizens told him that they would surrender the city on a 

 certain day, unless they were relieved by a battle. King William 

 removed thence to the Castle of Prodhow and captured it ; and 

 then he went and besieged Alnwick. The Barons of the County 

 of York, who were indignant that the Scots should have made 

 such a rebellion, mustered at Newcastle, the leaders being Robert 

 de Stoteville, Randulf de Granville, Bernard de Balliol, from 

 whom Bernard Castle derives its name, William de Vescy, with 

 a few other men of regard. They started off to encounter 

 William, who felt himself secure against all the English, on 

 account of the King's absence. Therefore he had sent 

 away his men to ravage the country. The Englishmen fell 

 upon him at the dawn of da v. which happened to be misty; and 

 they took him prisoner. They cut down and routed the others, 

 who, on returning, thought that they were some of their own men' 

 This fight took place July 14th, in the year of grace 1178. The 

 said I,ords returned to Newcastle the same night, and took King 

 William to London to King Henry, who had come back from 

 Normandy. He soon returned thither, and took King W^illiam 

 with him. and put him in prison at Rouen, where he also put the 

 Earl of Leicester and others whom he had arrested for their ill- 

 behaviour. Some of the Bishops and Lords of Scotland, and 

 e.specially the Bishops of St. Andrews and Dunkeldin, crossed 

 the sea into Normandy to treat for their King's deliverance. 

 They made an agreement with Henry, who went back to England 

 soon after, where at York King William was set free for a ransom 

 of £40,000. Here he did homage to King Henry, and the 



