+Source.+--_Nicholas Trivet's Annals_, pp. 324-325. (English Historical
Society Publications.)
The King of England, after the Feast of S. John the Baptist, came to
Scotland, and having listened to the pleas in support of their right of
those who claimed the Scottish throne, caused forty persons to be
elected, twenty from England and twenty from Scotland, to examine those
pleas with diligent care, the final decision being postponed to the
following Michaelmas. When the aforesaid date arrived, after careful
discussion, Edward, with the consent of all, adjudged the kingdom
without reservation to John Balliol, who was descended from the eldest
daughter of David, King of the Scots. Robert Bruce, between whom and the
aforesaid John decision lay, after the claims of the others had been
dismissed, although one degree nearer in descent, yet was descended from
the second daughter of David. John, on the Feast of S. Andrew the
Apostle following, was crowned, seated on the royal stone in the Church
of Canons Regular at Scone. After the coronation, coming to the King of
England, who was keeping the Festival of the Nativity of our Lord at
Newcastle-on-Tyne, he did homage in these words: "My lord, lord Edward,
King of England, I, John Balliol, King of Scotland, acknowledge myself
your liege vassal for the whole kingdom of Scotland, with its
appurtenances and all belonging to it, which kingdom I hold and claim by
right to hold hereditarily, from you and your heirs, Kings of England,
as regards life and limb and earthly honour, against all men who live
and die." And the King received homage in the aforesaid form, saving his
own or another's right. And when King John had done homage, the King of
England restored to him without delay the kingdom of Scotland in full
with all its appurtenances.