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Walays, who was on horseback, fled with the other lords of Scot- 

 land who were there. Antony de Bek, the Bishop of Durham, 

 was with King Edward, and had such a crowd of retainers that in 

 his brigade were 32 banners, with the three Earls of Warwick, 

 Oxford, and Angus. At this time the city of St. Andrews was 

 destroyed. The King having reinstated his officials in Scotland, 

 returned to England, where he visited the holy places in pilgrim- 

 age and thanked God for his victory, as was customary after such 

 affairs. In the following year, the year of grace 1299, legates 

 came from the Court of Rome, on the day of the translation of St. 

 Thomas (7 July), to King Edward at Canterbury, praying and 

 exhorting the King to leave John de Balliol, formerly King of 

 Scotland, in the guard of the Holy Father, since he had appealed 

 to his favour. The King granted the request on condition that he 

 would not enter Scotland. This was promised, and the said John 

 was set free, and betook himself to the land of Balliol, his heri- 

 tage in Picardy, where he remained all the rest of his life. In the 

 following year a letter came from Pope Boniface, by the pro- 

 curement and information of those of Scotland, with all the 

 evidence they could devise, purporting that the land of Scotland 

 was a possession of the Court of Rome and that it had been in- 

 vaded to the disinheritance of the Roman legates. He begged 

 and warned the King to remove his hand from it. The King 

 summoned a general Parliament to meet at Lincoln, where it was 

 declared that by all laws, imperial, civil, canon, and regal, and by 

 the custom of the law of Britain in all times since that of Brute, 

 the sovereignty over Scotland belonged to the royalty of England. 

 This was announced to the Pope. King Edward had marched 

 into Scotland and besieged and taken the Castle of Carlaverock. 

 After this siege William Walays was captured by John de Men- 

 tethe near Glasgow and taken to the King, who had him drawn 

 and hanged in Eondon. The King enclosed the town of Berwick 

 with a wall of stone and then returned to England, leaving John 

 de Segrave to be Warden of Scotland. The Scots began to rebel 

 again against King Edward and established John de Comyn as 

 their Warden and the leader of their rebellion. At this time great 

 conflicts occurred on the Marches, chiefly in Tevydale, on account 

 of the Castle of Roxburgh, between the Scots, Ingram de Umfra- 

 ville, and Robert de Kethe, and the English Warden of the said 



