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 wore fealty to him. Alexander heartily epoued his caue, and in his right, dipoeed John of Carlile, Northumberland, and other places; but Lewis being obliged to leave England, (owing to the Pope’s entence of excommunication againt his adherents,) and Henry III. John’s on, being King, Alexander entered into an alliance with him, and married his eldet iter Joan in 1221. He afterwards ubdued, and punihed with death, one Gillepy and his two ons, who had committed terrible ravages in Murray and burnt the town of Invernes. Another inurrection was raied by a baard on of the laird of Galloway, but was oon quelled, whom, Alexander, after having him in his power, generously pardoned.

In 1235, Scotland being free from her intetine broils, Alexander and his Queen viited their brother Henry. During his tay in England, a dipute happened about Northumberland, which was ettled by Henry’s allowing 80 merks yearly in lieu of it. Alexander having lot his wife when in England, on his return home, he married the daughter of Eugelram de Coucy, a powerful French nobleman. After this, a rupture with England broke out, but was ettled