[398] Ep. St. T. Cant., l. 1, 44; l. 2, 32, quoted by Lord Lyttleton, Hist. Hen. II., vol. 4, p. 218–20. In 1166 William was at Mont St. Michael (Chron. Robt. de Monte ad an.), and there came with him the Bishop of Man and thirty-one other islands, all of which, adds the chronicler, the king of the Isles holds of the king of Norway by paying ten marks of gold to every new king. No other payment is made during the life of that king, or until the appointment of a successor.
[399] Ben. Ab. and Hoveden 1170.
[400] Hoveden 1173, p. 305. According to Diceto, William demanded Northumberland from the elder Henry, and on being refused, led his army into England. But the account of Hoveden is more likely to be correct. Wendover copied Diceto word for word, with the characteristic omission of the Dean of St. Paul’s words “quæ fuerant regi David, donata, tradita, cartis confirmata.”
[401] Diceto 1173.
[402] Hoveden 1173, p. 307. Newbridge, l. 2, c. 30. Diceto 1173. The latter makes William beg for a truce from the triumphant English nobles; but both the other writers maintain that the proposal first came from the English leaders, on hearing of the arrival of the Earl of Leicester. “Timuerunt valde,” writes Hoveden; “Cum eum (William) callida nostrorum dissimulatione laterent adhuc quæ nuntiabantur,” are the words of Newbridge. In the same chapter that historian speaks of Tweed dividing the kingdoms of England and Scotland—a clear proof that Lothian had not been restored to Henry seventeen years previously.
[403] Newbridge, l. 2, c. 30.
[404] Hoveden, 1174, p. 307.
[405] Newbridge, l. 2, c. 32.
[406] Hoveden 1174, p. 307. Newbridge, l. 2, c. 31, 32.
[407] Ben. Ab. 1174. Hoveden 1174, p. 308. Newbridge, l. 2, c. 32.