two Princes Richard and Geoffry Planta genet.” — “ Part of the month of July was spent by the King at Nottingham, in impleading a great number of the inhabitants of that county and the circumjacent parts, for having hunted his deer; and from thence be went to York, where, on the 10th day of August, he was attended by the King of Scotland, who brought thither with him all the bishops, earls, barons, knights, and freeholders of his realm, from the greatest to the least, in order to their doing, together with himself, and Earl David, his brother, liege homage to Henry, according to the articles of the treaty of peace concluded at Falaise. The castles demanded, as securities for the full execution thereof, had been delivered to persons appointed by Henry to take the custody of them, before this time ; and thereupon the Scotch King, with all the hostages he had given, among whom was his brother David, the presumptive heir of his kingdom, had been set free. In this assembly at York the convention of Falaise was publicly read, and confirmed; the seals of the King of Scotland and of the prince before named being set to it, in presence of the estates of both kingdoms; and the feudal acts there required, with all the further securities of oaths and pledges mentioned in it, being completely performed. These constituted as valid and binding a surrender of the sovereignty cf Scotland, and all its members, to England, as possibly could be made. And thus Henry became the first King of all Aritain ; the Princes of Wales having been subjećted before, by liege homage and fealty, to the dominion of his Imperial crown; and the Scots, who had never yet submitted their monarchy to that or any other power, consenting now to acknowledge the King of England and his heirs to all perpetuity their fovereigns and liege lords. But what Henry had acquired, with great glory to himself, and great advantage to his people, his immediate successor unadvisedly and impoliticly gave up : since which time the separation of Scotland from England, and the independence of the former (except for a short interval under Edward I.) did much harm to the latter, and kept both countries in almost continual wars, till the happy union of the kingdoms in the sixth year of Queen Anne made the Scots and English on naE. z tivu, |