L.wvi.oit — Noten 011 S'L Bernard's Life of Sf. Malachy. 247 



Prince Henry, in Scotland. Tliis meeting took place, therefore, thirty-nine 

 weeks, or nine months, after he set sail from Bangor (§ 40). But we know 

 something about the movements of David and Henry at this period. Peace 

 was made between the Scots and English at Durham on 9 April, 1139. 

 Immediately afterwards, Henry went thence to Nottingham. He remained 

 in England tlirougliout the summer, and returned to Scotland in the autumn.' 

 In the beginning or middle of 1140 he again went to England. He had there 

 a quarrel with Eanulph, Earl of Chester, and was in danger of his life ; but 

 King Steplien rescued him and sent him home. The intervention of Stephen 

 is described as the cause of Eanulph's subsequent animosity against him, 

 which had its issue in his seizure of Lincoln, and his holding of it against the 

 king's arniy from Christmas, 1140, to 2 February, 1141, when the king was 

 taken prisoner.- It is probable, therefore, that Henry returned to Scotland 

 late in 1140. His father, King David, left Scotland after Ascension (S May), 

 1141, to assist the Empress Matilda, and returned near the end of September.' 



Thus there were three periods in which Malachy may have met both 

 David and Henry during his passage through Scotland on his return journey — 

 before June, 1140 ; between September (?), 1140, and 8 May, 1141; or after 

 September, 1141. If he left Bangor as early as October, 1139, he could not 

 have been at Cruggleton on the return journey before July, 1140. Therefore 

 the tirst period is excluded. The third period is also impossible, for two 

 reasons. It implies that he left Bangor not earlier than the beginning o 

 1141, eighteen months after Gilla Criost's death, and is thus inconsistent 

 with St. Bernard's narrative ; it is inconsistent, likewise, with the statement 

 of the Annals of Tigernach that in 1140 "Mael Maedog Morgair came 

 from Home." 



We are left therefore with the period from September, 1140, to S May, 

 1141 — or rather to 31 December, 1140 — as the only possible time for his 

 second visit to Scotland. Let us suppose that he met King David near 

 Cruggleton on 1 September, 1140. In that case he would have left Bangor 

 about 2 December, 1139; reached York, 19 December, 1139; Clairvaux, 30 

 January, 1140; Martigny, 28 February; Rome, 4 April. Leaving Kome 4 

 May, he would be at Clairvaux 24 June, at Cruggleton 1 September, at Bangor 

 8 September, 1140. This is the earliest date of his return, consistent with his 

 meeting with David and Henry in Scotland. But I have set out the dates of 

 his arrival at certain places en route, because some things have to be considered 



' John of He.xli!iiu, in Simeon of Durham, oil. T. Arnolil (U S. ), ii, 300. 

 - Ibid., p. 3UG. 



^ Ibid., p. 30!). BLe was at Diirliam about Micliaeliiias : Simeon of Durham, Con- 

 tiuuatio Prima (U.S.), i, 14(1. 



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