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Salisbury and consumed with flame," a fortune shared by Dunbar, 

 after which a truce of seven years was arranged. In the municipal 

 records there is no corroboration of the burning-. The burgh's 

 annual ferme to the crown fixed under feu charter at £20 Is wai 

 duly accounted for during all the years from 1445 until 1451 with- 

 out any deduction for waste or disturbances, so that iu the one 

 quarter where assistance might have been expected we appeal in 

 vain. 



Interpreted as I have proposed — that is, reading October, 

 1449, as the sense of the date-reference to the battle of Sark — the 

 Asloan MS. gives it to us in the same order as Boece, following the 

 burning of Dumfries, the burning in June, 1449, the battle in 

 October ensuing. A C(jllation of these events and dates, with the 

 ofificial records of the relations between Scotland and England, 

 shews tha.t they fit in very exactly — indeed, that they explain 

 adequately the various events in the F<vdera relative to negotia- 

 tions for truce during 1449. This will be apparent from the 

 present brief tabular statement of the chief events. The writs 

 about the various truces during that troubled year are given in 

 their entirety in the Fu'dcra under the dates they bear, but I have 

 added citations, for convenience, of Mr Bain's indispensable 

 Calendar. The entries in italics are from the Asloan MS., pp. 27 

 and 18. 



1444, May 18.— Proclamation of 10 years' truce (Bain iv. , 1167). 



1448, Decern. 18. — Lincluden conference (Acts Pari. Scot, i., 714). 



[The truce must prior to 10 May, 1449, have been 

 broken.] 

 14-^, May. — Percy and Og/e burn Dunbar. 



1449, May 10. — James II. appoints commissioners to negotiate a truce 



{Bain iv., 13 12). 

 June. — Saliiibury burns Dumfries. 

 Junn S. — Doufflas burns Almvirk. 

 July 10. — Truce concluded at Winchester, to begin on 10th August 



and endure till 20th Sep. (lb. 1213). 

 July IS. — Dou'jlas burns Warkworth. 

 Aug. 10.— Truce begins (lb. 1213). 

 Sep. 18.— Truce renewed till 19th Novem. (lb. 1216). 



[This must have been interrupted by hostilities.] 

 Oct. 23.— Battle of Sark. 

 Nov. 3. — James II. appoints commissioners to negotiate a truce 



(lb. 12211). 

 Nov. 5. — Truce concluded at Durham (lb. 1222). 



1450, Jan. 28.— Sir John Wallace of Craigie still alive (Reg. Passelet, 82), 



although dead before 15th May, 1450 (Exchequer 

 Rolls v., 394-5). 



