Note 427 — Chapter XII · WILLIAM THE LION—1165–1214.
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Ben. Ab. 1175. This is another incidental proof of the complete feudal independence of the kingdom of Scotland at all other times; for no rebellion could have been put down without the permission of the English overlord, by whose court the rebels would have been tried; and Malcolm IV. would have had no more right to conquer and annex Galloway to his kingdom, than the Earl Palatine of Chester to conquer and annex Wales to his earldom.