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King David. This David had a son John, who died witnout is5ue, 

 and three daughters. The first was Margaret, who married 

 Alayn, Lord of Galloway; the second was Isabella, who married 

 Peris de Bruys ; the third Ada was the wife of John de Hastings. 

 Of Margaret, the first daughter, there was no issue, except a 

 daughter named Devorgul, who was married to John de Balliol. 

 Of Isabella, the second daughter of Earl David of Huntingdon, 

 wife of Peris de Bruys, was born Robert de Bruvs the eldest. 

 Of Ada, the third daughter of the said Earl David, wife of John 

 de Hastings, was born John de Hastings. Hereupon there arose 

 a great dispute as to who should be king, each one declaring 

 that his own claim was the best. Therefore, with general assent, 

 the Bishops, Earls, and Barons, with the Commons, sent to King 

 Edward of England in the manner aforesaid. About this time 

 the bridge of Berwick over the water of Tweed fell from a great 

 flood of water, because the arches were too low. This bridge 

 lasted only nine years after it was constructed. When King 

 Edward, the first of that name after the Conquest, had performed 

 what he had to do in Flanders in the manner aforesaid, he returned 

 to England. Then he set out to the March of Scotland, where he 

 issued a summons for a Parliament at Norham. All the great 

 men of Scotland came to it, begging him as their sovereign lord 

 to hold an enquiry as to who of right should be their king. He 

 declined to interfere, unless they surrendered to him, as their 

 sovereign, all the fortresses of Scotland. This was done, and he 

 put his ministers and officers into them. This sovereignty all the 

 great men of Scotland recognised by overt declaration; and all of 

 those who claimed a right to the realm of Scotland put themselves 

 entirely under his arbitration. To this they all put their seals in 

 affirmation of the thing spoken. The Parliament at Norham was 

 held after Easter in the year of grace 1291. The matter was 

 deferred until the feast of St. John (24th June), in the same year; 

 and whoever claimed the right to Scotland was to come to Ber- 

 wick on the said day, and they would receive a rightful judgment. 

 King Edward marched to the south, where in the meantime he 

 sent round to the Universities of Christendom by honourable 

 envoys to learn the opinions and decisions on this matter of all the 

 men skilled in the civil and canon law. The King returned on 

 the day which had been named All the great men of the two 



