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d a grant of all those lands in Northumberland. 



In the reign of Edward II., he accompanied that 

 monarch on his expedition into Scotland, and was 

 present at the battle of Bannockburn, A. D 1314 ; 

 where the English sustained a signal defeat ; Ed- 

 ward himself narrowly escaping, and the lord 

 Latimer, with many other persons of quality, and 

 above 400 gentlemen, besides an inestimable booty, 

 falling into the hands of the victorious army of Bruce. 

 This great and decisive battle secured the independ- 

 ence of Scotland, so much endangered by the former 

 battle of Falkirk, fixed Bruce upon the throne of 

 that kingdom, and may be deemed the greatest 

 overthrow that the English nation, since the con- 

 quest, had ever received * 



In the 12 of Edward II., lord Latimer being one 

 of the adherents to Thomas earl of Lancaster, ob- 

 tained pardon of the king, on making his submission, 

 and to atone for his disloyalty on that occasion, was 

 one of the principal leaders of those forces which, 

 upon the grand insurrection of that same earl, 3 

 years after, vanquished him and his whole party at 

 Boroughbrulge ; the earl shortly after suffering 

 that memorable and ignominious death at Pom fret 

 castle, so fully detailed by the historians of that 

 period. 



For his services on this occasion, the lord Lati ! 

 mer was the following year appointed governor of 

 the city of York ; and having been summoned to 

 parliament from the 28 of Edward I. to the 1 of 



* Hume's Hist, of England. II. ch; 14. 

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