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The History and Character of DAVIDI. King of Scotland. From the Scottish history.

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AVID fucceeded his brother Alexander in the kingdom, in the year of Chrift 1124. As his brothers reigned successively, one after another, in Scotland, he staid with his sister Maud in England. There he married his cousin Maud, a woman of great beauty, wealth, and nobility; for Voldiofus Earl of Northumberland was her father; and her mother was Judith, niece to William the Norman. He had a fon by her, named Henry, in whom both his father's and mother's disposition did presently appear. Upon this marriage, his revenues were much increased, by the accession of Northumberland and Huntingtonshire to the lands he enjoyed before

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