CHAP. XIX. ROBERT, KING OF SCOTLAND, DIES* FTFR the Scots had in the night quitted the mountain, where the young king Edward and the noMes of England had held them befieged, as you have before heard, they marched twenty-two leaguesfrom that deferì country without halting, and crofled the Tyne pretty near to Carlifle, where hy the orders of the chiefs, all diibanded, and went to their own homes. Shortly afterward fome of the lords and barons fo eafneftly folicited the king of England, that a cruce was agreed on between the two kings fox three years. During this truce, it happened that king Robert of Scotland, who had been a very valiant knight, waxed old, and was attacked with fo fevere an illnefs*, that he law his end was approaching ; he therefore fummoned together all the chiefs and barons, in whom he moil confided, and, after having told them, that he ihould never get the jbetter of thisficknefs, he commanded them, upon jtheir honour and loyalty, to keep and preferve faithfully and entire the kingdom for his fon David, and obey him and crown him king when he was of a pfoper age, and to marry him with a lady fuitabl* to his ftatioiu He