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to rebel against the King of England. So they sent John de 

 Soulis and other envo)s to the King of France to make an 

 alliance with him against the King of England. The King of 

 England not being at all sure of the Scots sent the Bishop 

 Antony of Durham to treat with them. At this negotiation at 

 Jedburgh in the melee of combat in the small tournament one of 

 the Bishop of Durham's cousins, whose surname was Buscy, was 

 killed. The Bishop of Durham on behalf of the King of England 

 demanded of the Scots four castles, Berwick, Roxburgh, Edin- 

 burgh, and Stryvelin (Stirling), to be held as pledges, in order 

 that he might be able to feel sure of them during the war with 

 France. Upon this he presented the King's writ summoning their 

 King to appear personally in Lent at the Parliament of the King 

 of England at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. To this place at the said 

 time the King of Scotland did noi come, nor did anyone come for 

 him. Thereupon King Edward started for Scotland with a large 

 army, and kept the feast of Easter at Wark. Robert de Ros, who 

 was Lord of the Castle, had deserted the service of the King of 

 England within the third day of the King's coming and had left 

 the castle empty. Then he went to Senewar (Sanquhar), a small 

 castle which he had in Scotland, all for a lady, whom he loved, 

 Christiane de Moubray, who afterwards would not deign to have 

 him. At this time seven Earls of Scotland, Buchan, Menteith, 

 Strathearn, Lennox, Ross, Athol and Mar, with John Comyn and 

 several other barons, entered England with an army. They 

 spared nothing, burned the suburb of Carlisle and besieged the 

 castle. On hearing this, King Edward marched to Berwick. 

 The day after his arrival, as the King was sitting in his tent at 

 dinner, the sailors of one of his victualling ships disembarked by 

 mistake beyond the town in the land of Scotland. At this time 

 the town was not walled, but surrounded by a fosse. The 

 commons of the town ran to the ship, set it on tire, and cut down 

 the men. The King hastened to his army. The young men 

 seized their arms, put spurs to their horses, and climbed fiercely 

 over the fosse, all on horseback. Where the men of the town had 

 made a path along the fosse the men on horseback entered in 

 haste whoever could get there soonest. There they slew a great 

 number of the commons of Fyffe and P'oritherik, who were the 

 garrison of the town. The same night King Edward captured the 



