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looked straight ahead, and saw the said Knight, WilHam 

 Marmioun, coming on foot all gleaming with gold and silver, 

 marvellously arrayed, with the helmet on his head. The said 

 Thomas well understood the reason of his coming, and cried 

 aloud to him: — " Sir Knight, you have come as a Knight errant 

 to make that helmet famous ; and as it is a more seemly thing 

 that chivalrv should be performed on horseback than on foot, 

 where it can be managed, mount your horse. See, there is the 

 enemy ! Set spurs to your horse and charge straight into the 

 middle of them. I renounce God, if I do not rescue your body, 

 dead or alive; or I myself will die for it." The Knight mounted 

 his fine charger, and set spurs to him, charged into the midst of 

 the enemy, who struck at him, wounded him in the face and 

 dragged him out of the saddle to the ground. At this point the 

 said Thomas came with the men of his garrison, with their lances 

 couched and struck the horses in the belly, who threw off their 

 riders. They repulsed the mounted enemy, lifted up the over- 

 thrown knight, re-horsed him, and drove the enemy away. Those 

 first attacked were left dead, and fifty valuable horses were 

 captured. The women of the castle brought the horses to their 

 husbands, who mounted them and overthrew those whom they 

 were able to overtake. Thomas de Gray killed in the Yerforde, 

 Cr}n, a Fleming, an admiral of the sea, a pirate, who was a 

 great master with Robert de Bruys. The others escaped, being 

 chased to the nuns of Berwick. Another time Adam de Gor- 

 doun, a baron of Scotland, had collected more than eight score 

 men-at-arms, and came before the said Castle of Norham, think- 

 ing to have taken by stealth the beasts that were pasturing out- 

 side the said castle. The young men of the castle ran hastily to 

 the extreme end of the town, which at the time was lying waste 

 in ruins, and began to skimiish. The enemv from Scotland 

 surrounded them; but the men of the sortie held themselves 

 within the old walls and defended themselves with great vigour. 

 At this point, Thomas de Gray, the warden of the Castle, issued 

 from the Castle with his garrison, and perceiving that his men 

 were in such danger from the enemy he said to his deputy- 

 constable: — "I entrust the Castle to thee, the custody of which 

 has been assigned to me on the King's behalf. But verily I will 

 drink of the same cup from which my men there are drinking." 

 He rushed at great speed with onl} 60 men in all of the commons 



