Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, Preserved in Her
CALENDAR OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO SCOTLAND. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. 1065. 1. Malcolm K. of Scotland and the_Isles adjacent, to all Christians, June 5. Danes, English, and Scots. The K. and Edward his eldest son and heir, Earl of Carrik and Rothesay, have acknowledged themselves to hold their kingdom of Scotland and the Isles, of their over-lord Edward, son of Ethelred late king of England, by liege homage and fealty, as their ancestors did in times past, as sufficiently appears by the records, wherefore they have become Edward’s “men” during their lives, with him to live and die against all men, as his liege subjects, and will bear liege fealty to him and his heirs, as God shall aid them. The K. appends his seal for himself and his son, at York, 5th June, 9th year of his reign, in the Parliament of his said over- lord there, with consent and advice of his Consort Margaret, daughter of Edward son of Edward Ironside, of Edward Ethelynge her brother, and other magnates of his kingdom. This is one of the well-known forgeries of John Hardyng the Chronicler. It is printed in Anderson’s Independence of Scotland, Appendix 1., and in Sir F. Palgrave’s Documents and Records relative to Scotland, preserved in the Treasury of Exchequer (1837), Appendix I. It is now more defaced and illegible than when printed by Anderson, with whose text Sir Francis collated it. A considerable fragment of the seal, as described by both, still remains appended, in brown wax ; the Scottish Lion, within the double tressure.
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