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tage, upon conditions that he never after should here wepon agayn 

 King Edwarde, and always be ready to take his part. This 

 Duglas was sone after slayn of the lorde Wylliam Duglas yn the 

 forest of Selkirk. Many lordes, knightes, and esquires of Scot- 

 land, taken in batayle with theyr King David wer sodenly ran- 

 somid, the which after they cam yn to Scotland, made great 

 riottes agayn. After this batayle cam to the King of England's 

 peace the counties of Berwik, Roxburg, Peblys, and Dumfres, 

 with the forests of Selkirk and Etrik, the valleis of Anand, Nide, 

 Esk, Enwide, Muffet, Tevyot, with the forest of Jedworth. The 

 castelles also of Roxburg and Hermitage wer delyverid into the 

 Englischmennes handes. King Edwarde and his counsel wer 

 much occupied by the space of a peace of eight yeres procurid as 

 it was spoken of afore by the messagers of Rome; and for the 

 delyveraunce of King David of' Scotland and Charles de Bloys, 

 duke of Bretayn, the which had beene in the space of eight yeres 

 yn divers castelles on England yn prison. In the mean whvle 

 that King Davy was prisoner, the lordes of Scotlande, by a 

 litle and a litle, wan al that they had lost at the bataille of 

 Duresme ; and there was much envy emong them who might be 

 hyest ; for every one rulid in his owne cuntery ; and King Edwarde 

 was so distressid with his afferes beyond the se, that he toke 

 little regard to the Scottisch matiers. At this tyme a baronet of 

 France, callid Garenceris, cam with 50 men-of-arms ynto Scot- 

 land and brought with him 10,000 markes of the French Kinges 

 treasor to be gyven emong the prelates and the barons of Scot- 

 lande, upon the condition that they should brake their trewis 

 with the King of England and mak werre upon hym. The lordes 

 Percy and Neville, gardians of the Englisch marches, toke trewis 

 with the lorde William Duglas at the tyme that he had conquerid 

 the landes that the Englischmen had won of the Scottes. Patrik, 

 erle of March, that was patisid with Garenceris the baron of 

 Fraunce, King John of Fraunce agent ther, wold not consent to 

 this trews, and so with other cam yn roade to the castle of 

 Norham, and imbuschid themself upon the Scottisch side of 

 Twede, sending over a baneret with his baner, and 400 men to 

 forage, and so gathering prayes drove them by the castelle. 

 Thomas Gray, conestable of Norham, sunne to Thomas Gray 

 that had been 3 tymes besegid by the Scottes in Norham castel 

 yn Kmg Edwarde the secunde dayes, seeing the communes of 



