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THE HISTORIE OF SCOTLAND.
King Dauid
his sone dies
afor his
father.
Henrie
Prince of
Jngland be
King Dauid
is maid
knycht.
The pietie
and deuo-
tiou«e of
Dauid in his
deith.
happilie &
meiklie he
dies, the ^eir
of his rigne
29. of christe
iiSi-
In his.
fatheris
sepulchre he
is laid.
Dauid his
sone Walter
deuote and
religious.
was done, He?me quha was mariit With the Erie of
Warrinis dauchtir Adama, dies, his father jit alyue.
Adama buir him thrie sones, Malcolme, Wiljeme, and
Dauid, With als mony dauchteris, Adama, Margaret,
and Malda. Within a schorte quhyle eftir; King Dauid 5
gaue Henrie the title of a knycht, because he was the
sone of the Emprise of Jngland, his oye, him selfe
* Prince and heire. Dauid thaireftir fell in sair sicknes,
quhilke schortlie Was his end : quha, quhen with a maist
ardent desyre, prepairing him selfe to the deith, his 10
Viaticum he walde haue had, wissing with the haly com-
mounioun, or blist sacrament and body of our Lord to
be refreshed, quhen, J say, his Jnfirmitie was sa scharpe
and sa fercelie with Vehemence gripit him, with all
humilitie, nohheles, he gaid to the kirk, vphaldne be tua 15
preists : cryeng all the way him selfe to be vnworthie to
quhome that blist body war + exhibited : how sune that
was receauet, he was borne in till a chamber; thair
throuch dolour of the seiknes, he coulde speik na mair,
quhais happie saul depairtes in peace; Jn Carleol dies, 20
and in Dunfermiling is buriit.
Sum wryte, that Dauid had J eftir a boy wl ane Vidue,
the Wyfe of a certane § Knycht, his name Waltir, the
name als of the boy Waltir: quhome thay say was of sik
honest conditiounis, sa deuot and haly, that quhen the 25
haly ordouris he had receiued, against his wil he Was
caused to accepte the chawounrie of S. Osualde fatt and
fair; and the Priorie of Kirkhann wl it. heiraftir ryllie
with him selfe he Weyis, that na true vertue war able to
* L. “Equitis aurati titulo.”—He gave the title of “gilded
knight ” to Henry, son of the Empress Matilda his niece, the Prince
heir of England.
+ L. “ indignum ad quem sui Salvatoris corpus deferretur ”—say¬
ing he was unworthy that his Saviour’s body should be carried to
him.
i Not in L.
§ L. “ Equitis aurati.”