. The chronicle of Lanercost, 1272-1346; . ders. Coming then to the priory of Lanercost, where dwell thecanons, venerable men and servants of God, they enteredarrogantly into the sanctuary, threw out the vessels of the temple,plundered the treasury, shattered the bones, stole the jewels, anddestroyed as much as they could. Thence these sacrilegious menmarched by Naworth Castle and the town of Redpath, and so thearmy arrived in Tynedale. But the English of the Carlisle dis-trict had a truce with the Scots at that time, so that in that marchthey burnt neither towns nor hamlets nor castles within
. The chronicle of Lanercost, 1272-1346; . ders. Coming then to the priory of Lanercost, where dwell thecanons, venerable men and servants of God, they enteredarrogantly into the sanctuary, threw out the vessels of the temple,plundered the treasury, shattered the bones, stole the jewels, anddestroyed as much as they could. Thence these sacrilegious menmarched by Naworth Castle and the town of Redpath, and so thearmy arrived in Tynedale. But the English of the Carlisle dis-trict had a truce with the Scots at that time, so that in that marchthey burnt neither towns nor hamlets nor castles within thebounds of Carlisle. David then came to Hexham Priory, wherethe Black Canons dwell, and, as is to be deplored, on that occasionand on others David utterly despoiled the aforesaid priory ; forthe Scottish army lay there for three whole days, and David tookdelight in burning, destroying and wrecking the church of God. Not this the David whom the Lord To honour did delight;But quite a different David who To Christ did show ;Z2. HEXHAM ABBP:Y CHUKCH ll,V 1 c_)l IlilOl, K>OV\ LANERCOST He proved his evil kind when he Gods altar did defile ;Blacker his guilt when to the flames He gave the sacred pile. It was, then, not David the warrior, but this David the defaecatorwho, for some reason or other, strictly ordered that four northerntowns should not be burnt, to wit, Hexham, Corbridge, Darlingtonand Durham, because he intended to obtain his victual from themin the winter season; but a certain proverb saith, The bearwanteth one way and his leader another. Wherefore, althoughthe man himself had laid his plans, we were patiently hoping forsomething different. The Scots marched from Hexham to the town of Ebchester, 1 Non tamen ilk David quern Christum sanctificavit,Sed erat ilte David qui Christum bene probavit cum super altare cacavit;Sed plus feccavit quando sacra ternf la cremavit. The reference is to an accide
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