CHAP. CkXXI. DAVID BRUCE, KING OF SCOTLAND, OBTAINS HIS LIBERTY. ' bave before beard how king David of Scot- land had been a prifoner in England, where he had remained upwards of nine years. Shortly after this truce was agreed to between France and England, the two cardinals, in conjunction with the bifliop of St. Andrew's in Scotland, undertook the enlargement of the king of Scotland. • The treaty was formed upon this ground, that the king of Scotland ihould never bear arms againft the king of England, in his realm : neither advife nor confent that any of his fubjeéts fhould moleft or wage. war upon the Englifh : that the king of Scotland, upon his return to his kingdom, fhould make every exertion in his power to obtain his fub-jeéls* confent that the crown of Scotland be held in fief and homage from the king of England. If the country would not fubmit to this, then the king of Scotland fhould fwear folemrily to maintain and keep a firm and - lafting peace with the king of England. He was alfo to bind himfelf and his kingdom, as its own reaj lord and heir, in the payment of five hundred thoufand nobles within ten years. And upon the demand of the king of England he waa to fend good hoftages and Securities for the per-formance of this treaty, fuch as tbe earl of Douglas, Bb2 the 371