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LIBER SEXTUS
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be him secretelie nurist, incontinent pe honorable confluence, Fo. xcvi.
30 be authorite of ge nobillis, with gude harte causit him be
salust souerane. Craithlinth, of pis present fortune glaid,
thanking pe nobillis and pepill, be ane lang proposicioun
rehersit pe giding of Donald the Insulane, be quhat wayis
he gouernit pe kinrik, evil conquest be reif, dissate, slauchter
of nobillis and vgfr crying, gif ony war mare detestabill;
reduceand alsua to mynde how to pe kingis blude he restorit
the kinrik, quhilk wrangwisly fra pame was reft, and nocht
without dangere of his liffe, he had destroyit pe tyran maist
cruell of all vtheris, and with sobir nowmer of complicis had
perfurnist the mater, quhilk nane vthir durst attempt, as to.
slay the chiftane in myddis his folkis ; exhorting pame all
present at pe convocacioun pai suld remove fra pe rute all
successioun of pe tyran, gif ony was, togiddir with all his
40 freyndis, and suld na langer foster pat bald bleift of fyre
kindillit be sleuth of King Donald, quhen withoute avisement,
nocht tarying his folkis, he recounterit the tyran in batell,
quharethrow the realme of Scotland had brynt xij 3eris, to
pe hurte of pe commoun weill; it myc/d nocht be slokynnyt,
bot was defoundit and spred amang pe housft of pe nobillis,
nowjzr sparing pe kingfs houft nor blude royall; thay suld
fermelie addreft pare mynde to amend pe gyding of pe kinrik,
quhilk be iniquite of pe tyran tendit to rewyne ; giff pai
Wald schaw pame of gude mynde to pe commoun weill, pai
suld schortelie think pame satifyit and applesit. This exhorta- m.l.t. 1936
cioun of pe king, togiddir with his plesand corporall pulcritude,
50 movit pe pepill to mak pe aith of fidelite. Ffollowit amang
pe pepill grete ioy. Sone eftir the childer and freyndis of pe
tyran Donald in all partis war comprehendit and brocht to
dede, without respect to age, jouth or eild, male or femell.
Craithlinth, ordanyng iugeis of pe nobillis pat war best gevin
to minister iustice in pe realme, him self with Bong nobillis
piesing of condiciouns, exercit hunting, as was pe custume
quhen pe kinrik was at pece. Hounding pe dere in the mont
of Grangebene, plennyst with forestis and strandis, con¬
venient for courssis of hunting, to him come ambassiatouris
fra Thelarg, king of Pichtis, schewing how the king and pe