320 AKNAM OF KOGEB DE HOVEDEN. A.D. 1104. gallons of household wine, two pounds of pepper, four pounds of cinnamon, two stone of wax or else four waxen links, forty long and thick lengths of best candle, such as is used by the king, and eighty lengths of other candle for household purposes : and that, when he should wish to return to his own country, he should be escorted by the bishops and sheriffs from county to county, until he should, have arrived at the river Tweed : and should in like manner have daily one hundred shillings from the purse of the king of England for his livery. The charter of this grant and confirmation of the king of England was delivered to William, king of Scotland, in the town of Northampton, on the second day of Easter, by the hand of "William, bishop of Ely, the king's chancellor. In the year from the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ 1194, which was also the fifth year of the reign of king Richard, on the twelfth day of the month of April, being the third day in Easter week, Richard, king of England, departed from Northampton, and proceeded as far as Selveston ; and Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, and Hugh, bishop of Durham, proceeded to Brackley, where was a lodging prepared for the bishop of Durham, which he had held for thirty years past at the award of the marshal of king Henry. When his entertainment had been prepared, the servants of the king of Scotland came up and attempted to expel the servants of the bishop, but were unable. However, they purchased provisions for the king, and prepared the same in a house belonging to the same estate. When the bishop of Durham came thither, and was told by his people what had taken place, he was determined not to move a step thence, but boldly entered his lodging, and ordered the tables to be set. While he was at dinner, Hubert, the archbishop of Canterbury, came and offered him his lodging, and advised him to leave that one to the king of Scotland, and quit the house. When the king of Scotland, at a late hour, returned from hunting, and was informed of what had happened, he was greatly offended, and refused to go there, but ordered all that had been prepared for him to be given to the poor, while he himself went to the king at Silveston, and made complaint to him of the insult he had received from the bishop of Durham ; on which, the king, being greatly vexed, censured the bishop of Durham. On the thirteenth day of the month of April, the king came to Woodstock. On the fourteenth day the king came to Free