80 The Scalacronica. 



this defeat, followed the Earl with a large army and found him in 

 battle array at Hotoun Moor. When he saw that the English 

 were prepared for a battle with him he did not come near Berwick, 

 but retreated and encamped in the park of Duns. At the 

 approach of William Walays, the Earl of Warenne departed from 

 Berwick and left the town empty. He went to the King's son, 

 the Prince of Wales, for the King was in Gascony. On receiving 

 this news the King set out for England. The Bishop of Glasgow 

 and William, the Lord of Douglas, came to excuse themselves 

 on the arrival of the Earl of Warenne, saying that they were not 

 consenting to the rebellion of William Walays, though they were 

 serving with him before. Thesrefore the Earl of Warenne put 

 them in prison, the Bishop in the Castle of Roxburgh and William 

 de Douglas in the Castle of Berwick, where he died of chagrin. 

 When William Walays had ascertained the departure of the Earl 

 of Warenne, he sent Henry de Haliburton, knight, to seize 

 Berwick, and ordered others with a great array to besiege Robert 

 de Hastings in the Castle of Roxburgh. Roger Fitz-Roger, who 

 at that time was Lord of Warkworth, with John Fitz-marmaduke 

 and other Barons of the counties of Northumberland and Carlisle, 

 assembled rapidly and set out for Roxburgh. They rushed upon 

 the Scots secretly, and before they perceived the English were 

 upon them, the latter killed the engineers as they were holding 

 the dikes of the engines in hand, to try to shoot into the Castle. 

 Therefore they were put to rout and many of them were killed. 

 When Henry de Haliburton and the others who were at Berwick 

 heard of this defeat they departed at once and left the said town 

 void. The English lords recovered the town of Berwick and held 

 it until the arrival of the King, who, returning from Gascony, 

 went to Scotland with a great array. He entered it by Roxburgh, 

 marched to Temple Liston and Linlithgow, and thence to 

 Stryvelin. There he met William Walays, who had collected 

 all the power of Scotland and prepared to fight the King. They 

 fought near Falkirk on the day of the Magdalene (22nd July), in 

 the year of grace 1298, and the Scots were defeated. Wherefore 

 it was said a long time after that William Walays had brought 

 them to the ring, dance if they wished. Walter the Friar, the 

 Steward of Scotland, who fought among the Commons on foot, 

 was killed, with more than 10,000 of the Commons. William 



