[723]. Chart. Melrose, i. 172
[724]. In the Laws of Alexander II., under the year 1228, is one ‘De judicio de Gillescop. Dominica proxima ante festum Sancti Dionisii apud Edinburg in capitulo abbacie judicatum est de Gillescop Mahohegen per diversos judices tam Galwidie quam Scocie quod quia predictus Gillescop Mahohegen non duxerit ad diem statutum obsides de quibus dandis ad nominatum diem et locum ipsemet plegius fuit et alios plegios invenerat ipse deberet dare Regi vadia unde dominus Rex pacatus esset aut si ad voluntatem domini Regis vadia dare non posset ipsemet remaneret in vadium donec obsides promissos dedisset. Et fuit insuper in gravi misericordia domini Regis.’[Regis.’]—Act. Parl. vol. i. p. 68.
[725]. Fordun, Annalia, xlii.
[726]. Fordun, Annalia, xliii. Chron. Mel. ad an. 1235.
[727]. These particulars are taken from the Saga of Hakon IV., king of Norway.
[728]. Chron. Manniæ, Munch’s ed., p. 24.
[729]. Saga of Hakon IV.
[730]. Saga of Hakon IV.
[731]. Anno Domini Mccxlix. Eodem anno inclitus rex Scottorum Alexander, dum ad sedandas Ergadie partes proficiscitur, grave infirmitate corripitur, et ad insulam de Geruerei deportatur, ubi perceptis ecclesiasticis sacramentis, ejus felix anima ex hac luce eripitur et cum sanctis omnibus, ut credimus, celis collocatur. Corpus vero ejus, ut ipse adhuc vivus imperaverat ad Melrosensem ecclesiam transportatur et in ea more regio terre gremio commendatur.—Chron. Mel.
[732]. Fordun, Annalia, xlviii. This pedigree does not appear in the first edition of Fordun’s Annals, and was subsequently inserted apparently from one of the chronicles.—See Chron. Picts and Scots, pp. 133-144. Mr. Burton (vol. ii. p. 23) has taken his account of this coronation from Bower, and ignored the older account given in the genuine Fordun, and enters into a discussion as to whether he was crowned and anointed. This affords a good illustration of the danger of an uncritical use of authorities. Fordun says nothing as to his being crowned or anointed, and expressly states that David the Second was the first king who was anointed or crowned.—Annalia, cxlv. Bower suppresses this passage, and adds the crowning to his account of Alexander the Third’s inauguration.