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LIBER DUODECIMUS
173
pan pe pepill eitt bot twyift on pe daye, havand bot twa
coursis, bot now pe auaricious taist of manis wayme is sa
desyrous pat na froute growing vnder pe hevin be land or
(77. 285) sey may be sufficient to satify pe hungry appetite of men,
havand pavne in maist commendacioun quhilkis maye devoir
maist, comparit iustlye to nature of wolffis. NocMtheles, it
proffittis litill to complene be my wourdis, for pis rowst is
ruwnyn safer pat it may be purgitt na maner of waye. The
pepill salbe erar aluterly distroyitt, or pis vice be now brocht
awaye. Bot we will retume to oure history.
Off pe deth of King Williame, Bastarde of Normandy ;
of sindry nobill actis done be King Macolme ; of his
deth and Sanct Margarete ; and of sindry mmvellis
sene in Albioun. Ca xijm
Eftir pis King Williame pe Conqueroure decessit, pe xx 3ere
of his regne, fra pe Incamacioun jm Ixxxvj 3eris, and left
behynd him thre sonnis : Robert, Duke of Normandy, Williame
with pe Rede Face, quhilk succedit eiter him to pe croun of
Ingland, and Hary Bewclere, to quhom he left grete ryches
and iowellis. The samyn tyme King Macolme biggitt pe kirk
of Durehame fra pe ground, Williame beand Bischop peroi
and Turgott Priowr, quhilk was eftir Bischop of Sanctandrofs
and wraitt pe life of Sanct Margarette and King Macolm in
his wlgare langaige. He decessit in Sanctandrofs, bot his
body was broc/zt to Durehame, becaus he was Priowr sum
tyme peroi. King Macolme, be persuasioun of pis Turgott,
biggitt ane kirk in Dunfermling, quhilk was ordanit to be pe
commoun sepulture of all kingzs in tymez cuwing. per for,
quhai list to knaw pe lyfe of King Macolme Camnore and his
blissit Quene, Sanct Margarete, may recur to pe said Turgitt,
quhilk schewis pe samyn at lenth. Amang mony nobill werkis
quhilkis he did it was noc/zt litill to be commendit pat he
abrogatt and distroyitt pe wikkitt law, maid be King Ewyne
pe Thrid, commanding half ane nwk of moneye to be payit
173
pan pe pepill eitt bot twyift on pe daye, havand bot twa
coursis, bot now pe auaricious taist of manis wayme is sa
desyrous pat na froute growing vnder pe hevin be land or
(77. 285) sey may be sufficient to satify pe hungry appetite of men,
havand pavne in maist commendacioun quhilkis maye devoir
maist, comparit iustlye to nature of wolffis. NocMtheles, it
proffittis litill to complene be my wourdis, for pis rowst is
ruwnyn safer pat it may be purgitt na maner of waye. The
pepill salbe erar aluterly distroyitt, or pis vice be now brocht
awaye. Bot we will retume to oure history.
Off pe deth of King Williame, Bastarde of Normandy ;
of sindry nobill actis done be King Macolme ; of his
deth and Sanct Margarete ; and of sindry mmvellis
sene in Albioun. Ca xijm
Eftir pis King Williame pe Conqueroure decessit, pe xx 3ere
of his regne, fra pe Incamacioun jm Ixxxvj 3eris, and left
behynd him thre sonnis : Robert, Duke of Normandy, Williame
with pe Rede Face, quhilk succedit eiter him to pe croun of
Ingland, and Hary Bewclere, to quhom he left grete ryches
and iowellis. The samyn tyme King Macolme biggitt pe kirk
of Durehame fra pe ground, Williame beand Bischop peroi
and Turgott Priowr, quhilk was eftir Bischop of Sanctandrofs
and wraitt pe life of Sanct Margarette and King Macolm in
his wlgare langaige. He decessit in Sanctandrofs, bot his
body was broc/zt to Durehame, becaus he was Priowr sum
tyme peroi. King Macolme, be persuasioun of pis Turgott,
biggitt ane kirk in Dunfermling, quhilk was ordanit to be pe
commoun sepulture of all kingzs in tymez cuwing. per for,
quhai list to knaw pe lyfe of King Macolme Camnore and his
blissit Quene, Sanct Margarete, may recur to pe said Turgitt,
quhilk schewis pe samyn at lenth. Amang mony nobill werkis
quhilkis he did it was noc/zt litill to be commendit pat he
abrogatt and distroyitt pe wikkitt law, maid be King Ewyne
pe Thrid, commanding half ane nwk of moneye to be payit
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| Publications by Scottish clubs > Scottish Text Society publications > Third series > Chronicles of Scotland > Volume 2, 1941 > (187) |
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| Description | Compiled by Hector Boece ; translated into Scots by John Bellenden, 1531 ; edited, in continuation of the work of the late Walter Seton, by R.W. Chambers and Edith C. Batho. Volume 2 edited by Edith C. Batho and H. Winifred Husbands. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by William Blackwood and Sons, 1938-1941. |
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