great prince.


MCCLXI.

In summer there came, from Scotland in the west, an Archdeacon, and a
knight called Missel,[8] as Envoys from Alexander King of Scotland.
They shewed more fair language than truth, as seemed to King Haco.
They set out so abruptly on their return, that none wist till they
were under sail. The King dispatched Briniolf Johnson in pursuit, and
he detained them with him. The King declared that they should remain
that winter in Norway, because they had gone away without taking
leave, contrary to what other Envoys did.


MCCLXII.

In summer there came letters from the Kings of the Hebrides in the
western seas. They complain'd much of the hostilities which the Earl
of Ross,[9] Kiarnach, the son of Mac-camal, and other Scots
committed in the Hebrides when they went out to Sky.[10] They burned
villages, and churches, and they killed great numbers both of men and
women. They affirmed, that the Scotch had even taken the small
children and raising them on the points of their spears shook them
till they fell down to their hands, when they threw them away
lifeless on the ground.[11]

They said also, that the Scottish King purposed to subdue all the
Hebrides, if life was granted him.