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Andrew de Murref, then Guardian of Scotland, on behalf of 

 •King David de Brus, had espied the lodging of the said King 

 Edward de Balliol at Kelsow, and perceiving the rising of the 

 ■water of Twede, he approached with a large force and placed 

 himself suddenly at the end of the bridge of Roxburgh. He 

 began to break down the said bridge, thinking to surprise the 

 said King Edward. But then a cry arose in the army in the 

 said town, and all the soldiers, both horse and foot, advanced 

 and took the bridge from the enemy, and the horses swam 

 through the water. They routed those men, and their leader, 

 Andrew de Murref, was captured. Soon after the King of 

 England held his Parliament at York, to which the chief men 

 of the army of Edward de Balliol came. To this Parliament 

 envovs of peace came from David de Bruys, petitioning the King 

 to help their Lord, as an ally ought to do, since he had his sister 

 to wife. \\'ithout treating about any other condition, the 

 opinion of the King's Council was that he was not bound to do 

 that against his own men, who had been disinherited on his 

 account and that of his ancestors, and who had begun to recover 

 their heritages under his favour. While the Parliament afore- 

 said was being held King Edward de Balliol lodged at Roxburgh 

 and then marched to the West Border to Anand, where at the 

 dawn of day Archibald de Douglas with a force of the enemy 

 burst upon him and routed him, so that he escaped with great 

 difficulty even at Carlisle ; and a great many of his men were 

 killed. All his men were chased out of Scotland, so that they 

 had to recommence over again all their conquests. Edward de 

 Balliol at once began to treat with the King of England. The 

 King and his Council decided that he should be free to make 

 his own profit. Now in the peace made with Robert de Bruys 

 special mention had been made of the alliance of France with 

 the Scots, and it was specified that the King of England was 

 not bound to those who did not adhere to him. And since by 

 the advice of Earl Thomas of Murref the Scots refused to desert 

 the alliance of France, the open enemy of the King of England, 

 no other condition was specified except that the King of 

 England should drop his claim to the right which he possessed 

 in Scotland, which had fallen to the Crown of England in the 

 time of his grandfather by the forfeiture of John de Balliol, then 

 King of Scotland, who had renounced his allegiance to the King 



