A.D. 117"·] VISIT TO TIIK TOMB OF ST. THOMAS. and to his justices. As a guarantee for the observance of this treaty, the king of Scotland gave up to king Henry anil his successors the castles of Berwick and Roxburgh * for ever; and, if the king of Scotland should ever contravene this treaty, the bishops, carls, and barons of Scotland undertook to oppose him, and the bishops to lay his kingdom under an interdict, until he should return to his duty towards the king of England. Thus king William gave hostages, and returned to England in free custody, until the castles should be surrendered according to his bargain with the king. And many of the fortresses which had been raised through England and Normandy, during the dissension between the father and son, were now, by the king's command, destroyed. JIow the tu-o kings, father and son, paid a visit to the tomb of St, Thomas, Λ. I). 1176'. The kings of England, father and son, on their return to England, ate every day at the same table, and slept every night in the same bedroom. They also together visited the blessed martyr St. Thomas, to oiler up their prayers and vows at his tomb ; after which they went through England, promising justice to everyone, both clergy and laity, which promise they afterwards fully performed. The same year, William de Brau.se, having craftily assembled a multitude of the Welsh in the castle of Aber gavenny, forbade travellers to carry a knife or bow, but when they opposed this decree, he condemned them all to capital punishment. That you may understand how he palliated his treachery under the cloak of right, he perpetrated this deed to avenge his uncle, Henry of Hereford, whom they had slain on the previous Easter Saturday. The same year, Richard archbishop of Canterbury, appointed three archdeacons, Savary, Nicholas, and Herbert, in his diocese, though up to this time, it had been content with one archdeacon. The same year John dean of Salisbury was consecrated bishop of Norwich, and not long after, the king of Kngland rased to the ground the castles of Leicester. Huntingdon, Wallon, (ïrobi, Stutsbury, Hay, and Thir-k, besides many others, in return for the injuries which the lords of those castles had often done to him. Ile then, by • Also the castks υί" Jedburgh. Kdiiibuivh, and Stirling. VOI.. II. 1