The Scalacronica. IT 



Castle of Edinburgh, which was then in the hands of the English. 

 The marchers heard of his going and prepared to relieve the 

 garrison. The Scots decamped and went to Clerkinton to meet 

 them, and the English went to Krethtoun. There was a great 

 skirmish between them at Krethtounden, and many on both sides 

 were killed; but more of the English perished. The Scots 

 decamped from there, making a show of marching into England, 

 and encamped at Galuschelle (Galashiels). The English en- 

 camped opposite them beyond the water of Tweed, where they 

 remained two days. In the third night the Scots decamped and 

 went their wav. The Earl of Salisbury started off to Scotland to 

 explain to the King whv he thought that the formation of an alli- 

 ance with the Germans was not likely to come to a profitable 

 issue. He went with the Earls of Arundel and Gloucester and 

 the Lords Percy and Neville to the siege of Dunbarre, where the 

 King of England met them at the Whitekirk to take their advice 

 concerning his affairs. Therefore he could not remain at the 

 siege for a time. They lax at that siege during Lent and even 

 Whitsuntide, until the Bishop of Lincoln, the Earl of Xorthamp- 

 ton, and the others who had negotiated the treaty of alliance with 

 the Germans, had returned to London. It was said that some of 

 these ambassadors on their return declared to those who were then 

 around the King that they who impeded the King's crossing the 

 sea to carry out their treaty would hereafter be held traitors. 

 When this news was heard at Dunbarre the Lords there, who 

 were upon the point of surrendering the Castle, decamped during 

 a truce, not daring to remain any longer for fear that men should 

 put the blame upon them of having impeded the King's passage, 

 since things were so far advanced. At this time the English 

 marchers, who were left to guard the march behind the wardens 

 and leaders who were riding with an arm\ into Scotland, were 

 routed at Prespen, Robert de Maners being captured, and many 

 killed or taken prisoners. On account of unpleasant angry words 

 they had gone out of array, to light disobediently in an unsuitable 

 place. At the time of the siege of Tournay the Earls of March 

 and Sotherland in Scotland came within the March to capture 

 booty ; but they were routed there by Thomas Gray. (There is 

 a gap here in the MS. of the Scalacronica, which is filled up from 

 John Leland's Epitome of the work, made in the time of Henrv 

 Vni.) Robert Maners and John Coplande, with the garrison of 



