[418] The letter of the pope to Henry is preserved in Diceto, ad an. 1154, p. 529.
[419] Chron. St. Crucis, 1159, 1162. Chron. Mel. 1161.
[420] Extr. ex Chron. Scot., p. 75. Chron. Mel. 1164. Fordun, l. 8, c. 15. Vide also Hailes’ Annals, vol. 1, p. 120.
[421] Fordun, l. 8, c. 26, makes Gilbert Moray the spokesman of the Scots.
[422] Hoveden 1176, p. 314, gives the fullest account of these occurrences.
[423] Ben. Ab. 1176. Wynton, bk. 7, c. 8, l. 185 to 258.
[424] Reg. Glasg., No. 38.
[425] Hoveden 1188, p. 371. This privilege was confirmed by many subsequent bulls.
[426] The best account of these transactions is given by Abbot Benedict, 1174. He says that Henry made the first overtures through Hoveden. Hoveden himself is very reserved on the subject, makes no allusion to his own mission, and declares that the Galwegian princes solicited the intervention of Henry. Looking at the result of the mission, I think it very probable that there were some reasons for the reserve of Hoveden, and I am inclined to adopt the version of Benedict.
[427] Ben. Ab. 1175. This is another incidental proof of the complete feudal independence of the kingdom of Scotland at all other times; for no rebellion could have been put down without the permission of the English overlord, by whose court the rebels would have been tried; and Malcolm IV. would have had no more right to conquer and annex Galloway to his kingdom, than the Earl Palatine of Chester to conquer and annex Wales to his earldom.