in the Mountaines 35 How King Robert was discomfist by Iohn of Lorne 38 Howe King Robert slew the three men that swore his death Fol. 41 How the Queene and the Erle of Athole departed fra the King to Kildromy 48 How the King past to Lochlowmound 50 Of the meeting of the Erle of Lennox with the King 52 How the King past to the sea 55 How the Erle of Lennox was chaist on the sea 56 How the King was receiued of Angus of the Iles and was gentâ—y entreated of him 58 How the Queene and her other Ladies were tane and prisoned and her men slaine 61 Of the siege of Kildromie and how it was betraised to the Englishmen 62 Of the death of King Edward of England 66 The illusion of the Deuill made to the mother of Ferrand Erle of Flanders and of the successe of the battell that followed thereafter 68 How Iames of Dowglas past in Arrane and gart vittall and armour there 71 How the King sent a spy in Carrik to spy wha were his friends there 76 Of the fire the King saw burning 79 Of the Kings hanselling at his first arriuing in Carrik 83 How Iames of Dowglas wan his Castell of Dowglas 97 How a man of Carrik with twa sonnes tooke in hand to slay the King Robert 97 How King Robert slew the three Traitours 101 How King Robert discomfist twa hundreth Galloway-men and slew fifteene of them 105 Howe Tydeus slewe fourtie nine men and their Captaine 108 How Iames of Dowglas slew Thriswall the Captaine of Dowglas 114 Howe sir Aymer and Iohn of Lorne searched the King with a sleuthhound 118 How King Robert slew yeâ— men that followed him 121 Howe the King was sairlie sought by the sleuthhound and how the sleuthhound was slaine 123 How the three Thieues came to the King and fainyied that they would bee his men 126 How the Kings Foster-brother was slaine and himselfe in great danger and how hee slew the three Thieues 128 How the King after his great troubles effrayed the English companie 133 How the King his hounds slew the 3 men in the wood 136 How the King discomfist sir Aymer in Glentroll 140 How sir Iames Dowglas discomfist sir Philip Mowbray with his companie at Ederfurd 143 How the King discomfist sir Aymer and his men vnder Lowdoun hill 147 How sir Iames Dowglas slew sir Iohn Webtoun and wâ— the Castell of Dowglas and syne cast it downe 156 How the King past ouer the Month and fell sick by the way 159 Howe the Kings men defended him during the time of his sicknesse 162 How the King discoÌ„fist the Erle of Buchane at Enrowry 165 Of the heirship of Buchane and howe the Castle of Forfare was tane 168 How the King wan sainct Iohnstoun and cast downe all the Tower thereof 169 Of the French Knight that was with King Robert at the winning of sainct Iohnstoun 171 How sir Edward Bruce discomfist sir Aymer and sir Ingrame Vmfrauile at the Water of Cree 174 How sir Edward Bruce with fiftie in company discomfist sir Aymer with fifteene hundreth 176 Howe sir Iames Dowglas tooke Thomas Randell and Alexander Stewart 180 How the King discomfist Iohn of Lornes meÌ„ at Creâ—labeÌ„ 182 Howe William Binny wanne the Peill of Linlithgowe through the bringing in of hay to it 182 How Thomas Randell was recounselled with the King and was made Erle of Murray 190 How Thomas Randel sieged the Castel of Edinburgh 191 How Sir Iames Dowglas by the conuoy of Sym of Lydhouse wan the Castell of Roxburgh 193 Howe Erle Thomas Randell wanne the Castell of Edinburgh by the conuoying of William Frances 198 Howe sir Edward Bruce wanne the Peill of Ruglyn and syne wanne Dundie 206 Howe sir Edward Bruce sieged Sttiuiling and of the â—rewes tane thereat 207 How King Edward gaddered a puissant armie to relieue Stâ—iuiling 208 Howe King Edward diuided his battels and tooke harbry in Edinburgh 213 How King Robert gaddered his folkes and ordered his battels to resist king Edward 216 Howe king Robert gart make deepe pots in the field ouercouered them with eâ—rd 218 How king Robert disseuered his vitaillers and carriage men fra his campe and set Erle Thomas Randell to keep the gaite beside the Kirke 220 How the Erle of Murray with an hundreth in company discomfist eight hundreth Englishmen 224 How king Robert slew sir Henrie Bowme in the face of â—aith the Oasts 228 Of the comfort giuen by king Robert to his folks 233 Of the battell of Bannocburne 242 How the Scottish vittallers and carriage men made them baners of sâ—eetes and presented theÌ„selues to the field 253 The valiantnes and death of sir Geiles de Argentie 255 How the Erle of Herfurd after the battell was receiued in Bothwell 258 Howe the king gart honourably bury the Erle of Glocester and the Castell of Striuiling was randered and sir Philip Mowbray became the kings man 262 Howe sir Iames Dowglas chased king Edward to Dumâ—ar and his company to Barwike 263 How the Castell of Bothwell the Erle of Herfurd were randred to sir Edward Bruce the Erle interchanged for the Queene and her Daughter that were prisoners 267 How king Robert rade in England and brunt Northumberland 268 Howe sir Edward Bruce with a great companie past in 〈◊〉 269 Of the first three battels sir Edward wan in Ireland 271 How the Irishmen treasonably leet our a Loâ—h on sir Edward and his company 279 Howe Erle Thomas Randell conqueissed the Irishmens vittailes 287 How Erle Thomas chased the Scurreours that came fra Cogneres 284 Of the fourth battell sir Edward wan in Ireland 286 Howe king Robert danted the Iles and tooke Iohn of Lorne 296 Howe sir Iames Dowglas reskewed the Pray tane by Englishmen and slewe sir Edmund Calhow Capitane of Barwike 296 How sir Iames Dowglas slew the Lord Newell 299 Howe king Robert past in Ireland to support his brother 303 How king Robert faught in Ireland against a great number of men and discomfist them 305 How sir Iames Dowglas in absenee of king Robert with a few company slew the Erle of Richmond 313 How sir Iames Dowglas slew Clerke Eleis and his company 317 How sir Iames Dowglas in absence of King Robert defended valiantly the Countrie 318 Howe the Bishop of Dunkeld and the Erle of Fife discomfist the Englishmen beside Dumfermeling 320 Of the returning of king Robert from Ireland 323 How Barwik was win by the moyen of Sim of Spaldin 327 Howe the King receiued the Castell of Barwike and made Walter Stewart Capitane thereof 330 How the King of England assembled his power to siege Barwike 333 Of the siege of Barwike 345 How Erle Thomas Randell and sir Iames Dowglas past and burnt in England to raise the siege from Barwike 340 Of the second assault of Barwike 343 How the siege of Barwike was skailled and the towne relieued 350 Of the death of sir Edward in Ireland and mony noble men with him 356 How King Edward againe inuaded Scotland and how sundrie of his men were slaine by sir Iames Dowglas 363 How Englishmen were discomfist at Byland 366 Of the conspiracie deuised against King Robert 370 Of the Trewes tane betwixt Scotland and England and of the death of walter Stewart 376 How the Erle of Murray and sir Iames Dowglas brunt in England till they came to Wardall Parke and of the death of King Edward of Carnauer and of his sonne Edward of Windesore 377 How Sir Iames Dowglas entred in the English Host and slew mony in their Tents 386 Howe the Scottish Host by the conuoy of Sir Iames Dowglas returned in Scotland without battell 391 How King Robert to relieue his â—olkes assembled his Host and entred into England in three parts 394 Of the peace tane and of the Mariage of Edwards sister with Dauid King Roberts sonne 395 How King Robert tooke sicknesse in Cardrosse sent for his Lords 398 How the Lord Dowglas was chosen to passe to the haly Land with the Bruces Heart and of the death of King Robert and how hee was buried in Dumfermling 401 How the Lord Dowglas past to the haly Land with the Kings heart 403 Of the great prowesse and valliantnesse done by the Lord Dowglas in Spaine 406 How the Lord Dowglas in relieuing Sir William Sinclar were both slaine by â—uge multitude of Saracenes 408 Of the noble vertues of the Lord Dowglas and a comparison betwixt him and the Romane Fabricius 410 Howe Sir William Keith brought the Lord Dowglas banes in Scotland and buried them in the Kirke of Dowglas 412 Of the death of sir Thomas Randell Gouernour of Scotland by poyson Fol eodem FINIS TABVLAE
The fire ouer all the Castell spred There might with force no man it red Then they within drew to the wall That at that time was battailde all Within right as it was without That battalling withoutten doubt Saued their liues for to brake Fire blasts that them would ouertake And when their foes that mischiefe saw To armes went they in a thraw And assailled the Castell fast Where they durst come for fires blast But they within that mister had So greit defence and worthie made That they full oft their foes rushed For no kin perill they refused Nor trauell for to saue their liues But Weird that to the end all driues The Worlds things them so trauelled That they on two sids were assailled Within with fire that them so broolyied Without with folke that them so tuilyied That they brint magre theirs the Èet But for the fire that was so het They durst not enter so soone in hy Therefore their folke they gart rely And went to rest for it was night Till on the morne that day was light AT sik mischiefe as yée may sée Were they within which was pitie They them defended doughtely Contemning them so manfully That they ere day throw mekill paine Had timmered vp the Èat againe But on the morne when day was light And sunne was shinning faire and bright Then they without in haill battaile Came puruayed ready to assaile But they within they were so stad That they not meate nor fewell had Where with they might the Castell hald Treated first and syne them yald To bee into the Kings will That aye to Scottish men was ill As soone after well was knawne For they were hanged all and drawne When this Cunnand thus treated was And affirmed with sikkernesse They tooke them off the Castle soone And in short time so haue they doone That all a quartter of Snawdoun Right to the eird they tumbled downe And toward England held their way But when that King Edward heard say How Neill the Bruce held Kildromy Against his sonne so stalwatrly Hee gathered greit Cheualry And toward Scotland went in hy And as hée in Northumberland Was with his greit rout rydand A sicknesse tooke him by the way And put him to so hard assay That hee might neither gang nor ryde Him behooued magre his abyde Into an Hamelet was thereby A little towne and vnworthy With greit paine they him hither brought Hée was so stad that he na moght His breath but with greit paines draw Or speake but if it were well law But then he bad they sould him say What place was that where he in lay Sir they said Burgh in the sand They call this place into this land Call they it Burgh alas said he My hope is now fordone to me For I weind neuer to thole the paine Of death while I through méekle maine The Burgh of Ierusalem had tane My life there weind I sould be gane In Burgh I wist well I sould die But I was neither wise nor slie To other Burghes help for to ta Now may I no wise further ga Thus plenyied he him of his folie As he had matter sikkerlie When he weind to wit certaintie Of it that none might certein be Yet some men said inclosde he had A Spreit that him an answere made Of things that he would inquyre But he was foole withoutten wéere That gaue traist to that Creature For Feynds are of sik nature That they to Mankinde haue enuie For they will on no wise truelie That they that well are liuing here Sall win the Siege where fra they were Tumbled through their méekle pride Wherethrough oft times will betide That when Feynds distrenyied are They will appeare and make answere Through force of coniuration But they so false are and so felloun That they make ay their answering Into double vnderstanding To deceiue them that will them trow Ensample will I set you now Of a Were as I heard tell Betwixt France and the Flemings fell The Erle of Flanders Mother was A Negromancer and Sathanas She raised and him asked syne What sould worth of the feghtyne Betwixt the French King and her Sonne And he as all time he was wone Into deceit made her answere And said to her thir verses here Versus Bellide BOSBEK Rex ruet in bello tumulÃque carebit honore FERRANDVS comitissa tuus mea chara Minerva Parisios veniet magna comitante caterva This was the spéech he made perfay And is in English thus to say The King sall fall in the feghting And sall failye honour of eirding And thy Ferrand thy Nephew my Deare Sall right to Paris wend but wéere Following him a great companie Of Noble men and of worthie This is the sentence of the Saw That he in Latine can her shaw He called her his deare Minerue For she was ay wont for to serue Him till she léesed at his deuise And for she made the samine seruice His Minerue and her called he And al 's through his subtilitie He cald her Deare her to deceiue That she the titter should conceiue Of his spéech the vnderstanding That most pleased to her liking His double spéech her so deceiued That through it her sonne the dead receiued For she was of his answere blyth And to her sonne she told it swyth And bade him to the battell spéed And he sould Uictor be but dread And he that heard her sermoning Sped him in hy to the fighting Where he discomfite was and shent And taken and to Paris sent But in the fighting not for thy The King through his Cheualry Was laid at eird and laimed baith But his men horsed him well raith And when Ferrandus Mother heard How her sonne in the battell farde And that he was so discomfite She raisde the ill Spirit tyte And asked him why he lyed had Of the answere he to her made And he said that he said sooth all I said hée that the King sould fall In the battell and so did he And failyéed eirding as men may sée And I said hée that thy sonne sould go To Paris and he did right so Following him sik a menyie That neuer in his lifetime he Had sik a Menye into leading Now sees thou I made no léesing The Wife conuicted was perfay And durst no more to him then say Thus gate through double vnderstanding That bargaine came to sik ending That the one part deceiued was Right so fell it vpon this cace At Ierusalem trowed he Grauen into the Burgh to be At the whilk Burgh into the sand He swelt right in his owne land And when he to the death was néere The folke that at Kildromy were Came with the prisoners they had tane And soone vnto the King are gane And for to comfort him they tauld How they the Castle to them yald And how they to his will were brought To doe with them what euer him thought Asked what they sould with them do Then looked he angerlie them to And said
and other moe That his partie were holdand Were tane and led into England Were put into felloun prisoun And how good Christall of Setoun Was slaine gréeting shée told the King That was sorrowfull of that tithhing And said when hée had thought a thraw The words that I shall to you shaw Alace hée said for loue of mee And for their méekle léele lawtie They Noble men and they worthie Are destroyed so villanouslie But if I liue in liege poustie Their death right soone shall venged bée Yea whether the King of England Thought that the Kinrike of Scotland Was all too litle for him and mée Therefore I will it mine all bee But of good Christall of Setoun That was so worthie of Renowne That hée should die were greit pitie Where ony worship might préeud bée THe King thus sighing made his mane And the Lady her leaue hes tane And syne went home to her winning And feill syes comfort shee the King Both with siluer and with meate Sik as shee in the land might get And hee oft ryoted the land And made all his that euer he fand And syne he drew him to the hight To stint better his foes might In that time was the Percie With a full simple companie In Turnâ—berise Castle yet lying For the King Robert sore dréeding That hee durst not ish foorth to fare Fra thyne to the Castle of Aire That was then full of Englishmen But lay lurking in a Den While the men of Northumberland Should come armed with strong hand And conduct him to his Countrie For to them send his Poist hath hée And they in hy assembled then Passing attour a thousand men And asked counsell them amang Whether that they should dwell or gang But they were stonisht wonder saire So far in Scotland for to fare For a Knight Sir Gawter de Lile Said it was too greit perill So néere these Souldiers to goe His spéech discomforted them so That they had left all the voyage Were not a Knight of greit courage That Sir Roger of Sainct Iohn hight That them comforted with his might And sic words can to them say That they together held their way To Turnebery where the Percy Lap on and went with them in hy In England his owne Castle till Without distroublance or more ill Now in England is Percy Where I trow he a while shall ly Or that hée shape him for to fare To weirray Carrik ony mare For hee wist that he had no right And al 's hee dred the Kings might That in Carrik was dwelland In the most strengths of that Land ¶ Where Iames of Dowglas on a day Came to the King and can him say Sir with your leaue I would goe sée How that they doe in my Countrie And how my men demained are For it annoyes mee wonder sare That the Cliffurde so peaceably Brookes and holds the Senyeory That should be mine with all kin right But while I liue if I haue might To lead a Yeaman or a swane Hée shall not brooke it but bargaine The King said Certes I cannot see How that yee yet may sikker bee Into that Countrie for to fare While Englishmen so mightie are And thou wat not who is thy friend Hee said Sir needlesse I will wend And take the auenture God will giue Whether it bee to die or liue The King said Sen that thou wilt so And sik a yarning hes to goe Thou shalt passe foorth with my blessing And if thee happens ony thing That annoyous or skaithfull bee I pray thee speed thee soone to mee Take wee together what euer may fall I grant hee said and therewithall He louted and his leaue hes tane And is toward the Countrie gane The first winning of the Castle of Dowglas NOw takes Iames his voyage Toward Dowglas his heritage With two men withoutten ma This was a simple store to ta Castle or land of wéere to win But fast he yarned to begin To bring his purpose to ending And good helpe lies in beginning For good beginning and hardie Gif it be followed wittilie May gar oft syes vnliklie thing Come to right good and fair ending So did he here for he was wise And saw he might not on no wise Wearie his foe with euen might Therefore he thought to worke with slight In Dowglasdaill his owne Countrie Upon an Euening entred he And then a man winned thereby That was of frends right mighty And rich of monie and of Cattell And had bene to his father léell And to himselfe in his Youthhead Had done mony a thankfull déed Thomas Diksoun was his name perfay To him he send and can him pray That he would come allanerlie For to speake with him priuilie And but danger to him he gaes But when he told him what he was He grat for ioy and for pitie And him right to his house had he Where in a chamber priuilie He held him and his companie That none of him had perceiuing And meat and drinke and other thing That might them ease they had plentie So wrought they with their subtiltie That all the leele men of the land That with his Father were dwelland This good man gart come one and one And make him manâ—ent euerilkone And he himselfe first homage made Dowglas in heart great gladnesse had That the good men of his Countrie Would this wise to him bounden be He spéered the conuéene of the land And who the Castle had in hand And they him told all haillelie And syne among them priuilie They ordainde that he still sould be In hiddles and in priuitie Till Palmesunday that was néere hand The third day after followand For then the folke of that Countrie Assembled at the Kirk would be And they that in the Castle were Wold al 's be there their Palmes to beare As folke that had no dréed of ill For they thought all was at their will Then sould he come with his two men Before that folke sould not him ken He sould a mantle haue old and bare And a flaile as he a Taâ—ker were Under the mantle not for thy He sould be armed priuilie And when the men of his Countrie That sould all boun before him be His Ensenyie might heare him crie Then sould they all right enforcedly Right in mids the Kirke assaill The Englishmen with hard battaill So that none might escape them fra For therethrough trowed they to ta The Castle that beside was néere And when this that I tell you here Was deuised and vndertane Ilkone home to his house is gane And held this speake in priuitie Untill the day of their assemblie How Dowglas in Sanct Brydes Kirke With the Englishmen can wirke THE folke vpon the Palmesunday Held to Saint Brydes Kirk their way And they that in the Castle were Ished out both lesse and maire And went their Palmes for to beare Except a Cooke and a Porter Iames of Dowglas of their comming And what they were had good witting And sped him to
hauing That they loue him well nothing Hée said Felloews yee must all thrée Farther acquanted while that we bee All by your selfe before vs goe And on the samine wise wee two Shall follow you behind well néere Sir said they it is no mistéere To trow into vs ony ill None doe I said hee but I will Yée goe before vs a little waie Better with other knowne while wée bée Wee grant they said sen yée will so And foorth vpon their gate they goe The slaying of the Thieues three And how the King his death was nie THus yéed they while the night was néere And then the formest commed were To a waste Husband House and there They slew the Wedder that they bare And strake fire for to make their meat And asked the King if hée would eat And rest him while the meat were dight The King that hungrie was I hight Assented to their speech in hy But hee said hee would alanerly Betwixt him and his Fellow bée At a fire and they all thrée In the end of the House should ma Another fire and they did swa They drew them to the House end And halfe the Wadder to them send And they rosted in hy their meat And fell right freshlie it to eat For the King right long fasted had And had full meekle trauell made Therefore hee ate full egerly And when hee eaten had hastely Hee had to sleepe so meekle will What hee might make no let theretill For when the Ueines filled are The body is heauie euermare And to sleepe draweth heauinesse The King that all fortrauelde was To his Foster brother sayes Certes mee behooues to sléepe need ways Say may I trust thee mee to wake While I a litle sleeping take Yes Sir hée said while I may drée The King then winked a little wi◠And slept but not right inkerlie And glifned vp oft suddenly For hée had dred of the thrée men That at the other fire were then That they his foes were well hée wist Therefore hée sléeped as fowle on twist The King sléeped but litle than While sik a sleepe fell on his man That hée might not hold vp his eye But fell on sléepe and snored hie Now is the King in greit perill For sléepe hée so a litle while Hée shall bée dead withoutten dread For the thrée tratours tooke good heed That hee on sléepe was and his man In full greit hy they gate vp than And drew their Swords full hastelie And went toward the King in hy And sléeping thought him for to sla And his Foster brother alswa To him they yéed a full greit pace But in that time through Gods grace The King vp blenked suddenly And saw his man sléeping him by And saw comming the Traitours three Deliuerlie on foote start hée And drew his sword and syne them met And as hee yéed his foot hee set Upon his man right heauily Hée wakned and rose desily For the sléepe mastered him sa That ere hee gate vp ane of tha That came vp for to sla the King Gaue him a straike in his rising That hee might helpe himselfe no maire The King so straitly stad was there That hée was neuer yet so stad Were not the arming that hée hade Hée had béene dead withoutten weere Yet noughthelesse on this manéere GOD helped him so in that bargane That the thrée traitours hes hee slaine Through Gods grace and his manhéed His Foster brother there was dead Then was hée wonder will of wane When hée saw hée was left allane His Foster-brother sore méened hée And waried all the other thrée And syne his way tooke him alone And is toward his tryst then gone The King went foorth right wrathfully Meenand his man full tenderly And held his way all him alone And right toward the House is gone Where hee set tryst to méet his men It was well néere the night by then Hée came soone in the House and land The House-wife on the Benke sittand Shée asked him soone what hee was And whence he came and whether he gas A trauelling man good Dame said hee That trauells here through the Countrie Shee said all trauelling men heere For anes sake more welcome are The King said Good Dame what is hee That garres you haue sik specialtie To men that trauells Sir perfay Quoth the Goodwife I will you say The King Robert the Bruce is he Whilke is right Lord of this Countrie His foes now holds him in thrang But I thinke to see ere it bee long Him Lord and King ouer all this Land When that no foes shall him withstand Dame loue yee him so well said hee Yea Sir shee said so GOD mee sie Dame hee said loe him heere the by For I am hee I say thee soothfastly Ah Sir shee said and where are gone Your men that yee are thus alone At this time Dame I haue na ma Shee said it may no wise bee sa I haue two Sonnes wight and hardy They shall become your men in hy As shee deuised so haue they doone His sworne men became they soone The Goodwife gart him sit and eat But hee sat short whyle at the meat UUhen that he heard great stamping About the house then but leesing They stert vp the house for to defend But soone efter the King hes kend Iames of Dowglas then was he blyth And bade open the doores swyth And they came in all that they were Sir Edward his brother was there And Iames also of Dowglas That was escaped fra the chase And with the Kings brother met Syne to the tryst that there was set They sped them with their companie That was a hunder and fiftie And when that they haue séene the King They were ioyfull of that méeting And asked how he scaped was And he them told all haill the cace How the fiue men him preassed fast And how he through the Water past And how he met the thieues three And how he sléeping slaine sould be When he wakned through Gods grace And how his Foster brother was Slaine he told them haillelie Then loued they GOD almightie That their Lord was escaped so Then spake they words to and fro While at the last the King can say Fortoun hes traueld vs fast this day That skailled vs so suddenlie Our foes this night traistlie lie For they trow we so skailled are And fled to warrand here and there That we sall not thir daies thrée All togidder assembled be Therefore this night they sall traistlie But UUatches take their ease and lie And this day they haue done despite Therefore this night I would them quite UUherefore who knew their harberie And would come on them suddenlie With few Menyie men might them skaith And yet escape withoutten waith Here tranoynted the Noble King And to his faes made an affraying PErfay quoth Iames of Dowglas As I came hitherward by cace I came so néere the harberie That I can bring you where they lie And would ye speed you yet ere
reilling Saw them well néere discomfiting Then his Ensenyie he can fast cry And with them of his company His foes he preassed so fast that they Then were into so great affray That they left place ay maire and maire For all the Scottishmen that were there When they saw them eschew the fight Dang on them so with all their might That they skailled in trowples seire And till discomfiting drew neere And some of them fled all plainely But they that wight were and hardy That shame letted to take the flight With great mischief maintained the fight And stoutly in the stoure can stand And when the King of England Saw his men flee in sundrie place And saw his foes rout that was Worthen so wight and so worthie That all his folke were haillelie So astoneyed that they had no might To stint their foes in that fight Hée was abased so gretumlie That hee and in his companie Fifteene hundreth armed men at right Into that frush tooke all the flight And to the Castell tooke their way And I haue heard yet some men say That of Vallance Sir Aymery When hée the field saw vanquisht néere By the renyie led away the King Against his will from the feghting And when Sir Geiles de Argentie Saw the King with his MenÈie Shape then to flée so speedily Hee spéed then to the King in hy And said Sir sen that yée will so That yée thus gaite your way will goe Haue good day for againe will I Yet fled I neuer sikkerlie And I choose rather to bide and die Then for to liue and shamefullie flée His bridle then but more abade Hee turned and againe hée rade As dread of no kin thing had hée And pricked crying Argentie Right on Sir Edward Bruces rout That was so stalwart and so stout And they right sturdely him met And so feill Speares on him set That hée and Horse were charged so And both downe to the eird can goe And in that place there slaine was hée And of his death was greit pitie Hée was the third best Knight perfay That men wist liuing in this day And did full mony faire journey On Saracens three derenyies made hée And into ilke derenyie of tha Hée quickly vanquisht Saracens twa His greit worship tooke their ending And fra Sir Aymer with the King Was fled there durst not one abide But fléeing skailled on ilke side And their foes preased them right fast To say the sooth they were agast And fled so done affrayedlie That of them a greit companie Fled in the Water of Forth and there The most part of them drowned were And Banockburne within the braes Of Men and Horse so charged was That upon drowned Horse and Men Folke might passe dry out ouer it then And Laddes Swaynes they Rangall When they saw vanquisht the battell Ran among them and so can sla Tha folke that no defence might ma That it was pitie for to sée I neuer heard into no Countrie Folkes at so greit mischife were stad On ane side they their foes had That slew them downe without mercy And they had on the other party Banockburne that so cummersome was For slike and déepnesse for to passe That there might none out ouer it ride But there behooued them to abide So that some slaine some drowned were Might none eschape that euer came there But yet full mony gote away That elsewhere fled as I heare say The King with them hée with him had In a rout to the Castell rade And would haue béene therein for they Wist not what gate to get away Sir Philip Mowbray said him till The Castell Sir is at your will But come yée in it yée shall sée That yée shall soone assieged bée And there is none in all England To make rescourse dare take in hand And but rescourse may no Castell Bée holden long this wate yée well Therefore comfort you and relie Your men about you right straitlie And hold about the Parke your way Al 's sadlie knit as euer yee may For I trow that none shall haue might That chooses with so feill to fight And as hée counseld so haue they done And beneth the Castell went they soone Right by the round table their way And the new Parke enuironde they And toward Linlithgow held in hy But I trow they shall hastelie Sée conuoyed with sik folke that they â— trow might suffer well away For Sir Iames Lord of Dowglas Came to the King and asked the cace And gaue to him lieue but abade But all too few of Horse hée had Hée had not in his rout sextie But yet hée sped him hastelie The way efter the King to ta Now let him on his wayes ga And efter this wée shall well tell What to him in the chase befell How the Erle of Hartfurd in Bothwell was Tane ouer the walles fled from the chase WHen the greit battell on this wise Was discomfist as I deuise Where threttie thousand well were dead And drowned and slaine into that stead And some were into hands tane And other some their gaite are gane The Erle of Herfurde for that melle Departed with a greit menyie And straight to Bothwell held their way That then was in Englishmens fay Was holden as a place of wéere Sir Walter Gilbertson was there Capitane and it had in ward The Erle of Herfurd hidder rade And was tane in ouer the wall And fiftie of his men withall And set in Houses sinderlie So that they had there no mastrie The laue went toward England But of that roâ—t I take on hand The thrid part were slaine or tane The laue with great paine hame are gane Sir Morise also the Barclay Fra the great Oast held his way With a great â—out of Wales men Where euer they rade men might them ken For they well néere all naked were Or linnen claithes had but maire They held their way in full great hy But mony of their company Ere they in England came were tane And mony of them al 's were slaine They fled al 's other wayes seite But to the Castell that was néere Of Striuiling fled sik a Menyie That it was wonder for to sée For all the Craigges so heilled were About the Castell here and there Of them that for strength of that sted Hidderward to warrand fled And for they were so feill that there Fled vnder the Castell were The King Robert that was wittie Held ay his good men néere him by For dread that rise againe sould they This was the cause forsooth to say Wherethrough the King of England Escaped home into his land WHen that the field so cleane was made Of Englishmen that none abade The Scottishmen tooke soone in hand So great riches there they fand Siluer and gold clothes and arming And vessell and all other thing That euer they might lay on their hand So great a riches there they fand That mony men were rich made Of the riches that they there had
King are gane The King I wish was wonder fane That they returned haill and féere And that they sped on that maneere That they their foes discomfist had And but tynsell of men had made Recourse to them that in Barwike Were assieged right faire and thicke That into full greit danger wes Through strength of them that sieged hes And when the King had spéered tithand How they had farne into England And of their journey what progresse That they haue had and what successe And they haue told him all their fare How Englishmen discomfist were Right blith into his heart was hée And made them Feast with game and glée Barwike was on this maner Reskewed and they that therein were Hée was worthie a Prince to bée Through manhéede and subtilitie That could with wit so hie a thing But tynsell bring to good ending To Barwicke syne the King goes And when hee heard syne how it was Defended so doone manfullie Hée loued them that were there greitlie Walter Stewarts greit bountie Attour the laue commended hée For the right greit defence hée made At the Èet where men brunt had The brig as yée heard mée deuise And Certes hee was meekle to praise That so stoutlie with plaine feghting At open Yate made sik defending Might hee had liued while hee had beene Of persite eild withoutten wene His Renowne should haue streiked fer But death that watches euer ner Into the flour of his Youthheed Made end of all his doughtie déede As â— shall tell furthermare When the King had a while beene there Hee sent for Masouns far and néere That sleest were of that mistéere And gart well tenfoote hie the wall About Barwike the towne ouer all And syne toward Louthiane With his MenÈie his gate hes tane And syne hée gart ordaine in hy Both armed men and Yemanrie Into Ireland in hy to fare To helpe his brother that was there But hée that rest annoyed ay And would in trauell bee alway Ane day before the arriuing Of them were sent him from the King Hée tooke his way Southward to fare Magre them all that with him were For hee had not then in that land Of all men I trow two thousand Except the Kings of the â—rishrie That in greit routes rade him by Toward Dondalk hee tooke his way And when Richard of Clare heard say That hée came with a few MenÈie All that hee might assembled hée Of all Ireland of armed men So that hée had there with him then Of trapped Horses twentie thousand By them that were on foot gangand And held foorth Northward on his way And when Sir Edward heard men say That commen néere to him was hée Hée sent Discurreours him to see The Sowles and the Stewart were they And al 's Sir Philip the Mowbray And when they séene had their comming They went againe to tell tithing And said they were well mony men In hy Sir Edward answered then And said that hee should feght that day Though fiue or sixe times moe were they Sir Iohn Stewart said sickerlie I reede yee feght not in sike hy Men sayes your brother is cummand With fifteene hundreth men at hand And were they knit with you yee might Abide stalwartlie the fight Sir Edward looked right angerlie And to the Sowles said in hy What sayest thou Sir hee said perfay As my Fellow said Sir I say Then to Sir Philip the Mowbray said he Sir said hee so our Lord mee see Mee thought it folie for to byde Yone men that speedes them to ride For wee are few our foes are feill God may right well our Weirds deill But it were wonder that our might Sould ouercome so feill in fight Then with great ire alace said he I weind neuer to haue heard that of thée Now help who will for sickerly This day but more bade fight will I. Sall no man say while that I die That strength of men sall gar me flée GOD shield that ony sould vs blame That we deale our Noble fame Now be it swagait then said they We sall take that GOD will puruay And when the Kings of Irishry Heard say and wist it sickerly That their King with so whéene wald fight Against so mony of méekle might They came to him in full great hy And counselde him full tenderly For to abide his men and they Sould hold their foes all that day Doing and on the morne alswa UUith their assaults that they sould ma. But there might no counsell auaile He would all gaites to the battell And when they saw he was so thra To fight they said ye may well ga But we will quite vs vtterlie To fight with yone great companie For none of vs will stand to fight Trust not therefore into our might For our maner is in this land To follow and to fight flée and And not to stand in plaine Melle UUhile the one part discomfist be He said sen that your custome is I aske no more of you but this That is that ye and your Menyie UUould all togidder arrayed be And stand on farre but departing And see our feght and our ending They said well that they sould doe sa And syne toward their foes can ga They were well threttie thousand néere Edward and they that with him were They were not fully two thousand Arrayed then stalwardly to stand Against threttie thousand and ma. Sir Edward that day would not â—a His Coat-armour bot Gib Harper That men held as withoutten peere Of his estate had on that day All haill Sir Edwards array The feght abade they on this wise And in great hy their enemies Came to assemble all ready And they met them right hardely They were so few the sooth to say That rushed with their foes were they And they that most preassed to stand Were slaine downe and the remanand Fled to the Irishry for succour Sir Edward that had sik valour Was dead and Sir Iohn Stewart alswa And Sir Iohn Sowles al 's with tha And other of their company They vanquisht were so suddenly That few into the Plaine were slaine For the laue hes their wayes tane To the Irish Kings that were there That in haill battell howing were Iohn Thomson that was leader Of them of Carrike that were there When he saw the discomfiting Withdrew him to an Irish King That of his acquaintance had he And he receiued him in daintie And when Iohn commen was to the King He saw men lead fra the feghting Sir Philip Mowbray the wight That had bene discomfist in the fight And by the armes led was he With two men vpon the Caussey That was betwixt them and the toun That streiked long in a randoun Toward the toun they held their way And when in mids the Caussey were theâ— Sir Philip of his businesse Ouercome and perceiued he was Tane and swagaites led with twa The one he swakked soone him fra And syne the other in great hy He drew his sword deliuerly And to
that he venged of him were Sir Ingramâ— made to him answere And said he dealt so courteously With me that on no wise sould I Gaue counsell to his hurting Thou behooues néedwise said the King To this thing say thine auise Sir said hee sen your will it is That I say wit yée sikkerlie For all your greit Cheualrie To deale with them yee haue no might His men so worthie are and wight For long vsage of feghting That haue beene nourished in sik thing That ilke Yeman is so wight Of his that hée is worth a Knight But if yée thinke your wéere to bring To good purpose at your liking Long trewes with him take yee Then shall the most part of his MenÈie That are but simple Yemanrie Bee strenyied all commonlie To win their meat with their trauill And some of them of néed mon call With pleugh and Borrow for to get And other féere Craftes their daylie meat So that their arming shall worth old And bee rousted destroyed and sold And feill that now of wéere are slée Into these long trewes shall die And others in their stead shall rise That shall ken litle of sik maistries And when they thus diffused are Then may yée mooue on them were To this assented they ilkane And efter soone were trewes tane Betwixt the two Kings that were Taken to last for threttéene yéere And on the Marches gart them cry The Scottishmen keeped them leelely But Englishmen vpon the sea Destroyed through greit crueltie Marchant shippes that sailling were From Scotland to Flanders with waire And destroyed the men ilkane And to their vse the goods hes tane The King sent oft to haue redresse But nought thereof redresse there was And hee abade all time askand The trewes on his halfe gart hée stand Upon the Marches stabilly And gart men keepe them léelely Walter Stewart here died hee At Paslay eirded syne was hee IN this time that the trewes were Lesting on Marches as I said aire Walter Stewart that worthie was At Bathcat a greit sicknesse taes His euill woxt ay more and more While men perceiued by his sore That hée of néed must pay the det That no man for to pay may let Shriuen and al 's repenting well When all was done to him ilke deill That Christen men ought for to haue As good Christen the Gaist hée gaue Then might men heare folk wéepe and cry And mony a Knight and faire Lady Murning and making full euill chere So did they all that euer were there All men him méened commonlie For of his eild hée was worthie When long tim they their dule had made The Corps to Paslay haue they had And there with greit solemnitie And with greit dule eirded was hée GOD for his might his soule mot bring Where Ioy aye lasteth but ending The Erle of Murray and Dowglas With their Host commen to Wardel was AFter his death as I said aire The trewes that so taken were For to haue lasted threttéene yéere When two of them were passed néere And an hailfe I trow alswa King Robert saw men would not ma Redresse of shippes that were tane And of the men al 's that were slaine But ay continued their prauitie Where euer they met vpon the sea Hee sent and quit him all plainely And gaue the trewes vp openly And in vengeance of this trespasse The Erle of Murray Sir Thomas And Donald Erle of Mar alswa And Iames of Dowglas with them twa And Iames Stewart that leader was Efter his good brothers decease Of all his brethers men in wéere Hée gart vpon their best maneere With mony men boun them to ga In England for to to burne and sla And they held foorth soone to England They were of good men ten thousand And brunt and slew into their way Their foes fast destroyed they And thusegaite fordward can they fare To Wardall Parke while they commen are That time Edward of Carnauerane The King was dead and laide in Lame And Edward his sonne that was ying In England crowned then was King And surname had of Windsore Hee had in France béene before With his mother Dame Issobell And was wedded as I heard tell To a young Ladie faire of face That the Erles Doughter was Of Henault and of that Countrie Brought with him men of greit bountie That was right wise and wight in wéere Sir Iohn de Henault was leader And in that time the Scots men were At Wardall Parke as I said aire Into Yorke was hée new made King And heard tell of the destroying That Scottishmen made in his Countrie A greit Host to him gaddered hée Hée was well neere fiftie thousand Then held hée Northward in the land In haill battell with that MenÈie Eighteene yéere old that time was hée The Scots men they had all Cokdaill From end to end they haryed haill And Wardall againe they rade Their Discurreours that sight hes hed Of comming of the Englishmen To their Lords they told it then Then the Lord Dowglas in a ling Ride foorth for to sée their comming And saw that seuen battels were they That came riding in good array When he the folke beholden had Toward his Oast againe he rade The Erle spéered gif he had séene The Oast yea Sir he said but wéene What folke are they Sir mony men The Erle his aith hes made euen then We sall fight with them yea though they were Full mo by far then they now are Sir loued be GOD he said againe That we haue sik a Capitane That so great thing dar vnderta Bot by Sanct Bryde it bées not sa Gif my counsell may trowed be For fight on no maner sall we But it be at our auantage For me thinke it were no outrage To fewer folkes against ma A vantage when they may to ta As they were on this wise speaking On an high rig they saw streiking Toward them euen in battel brade Baners anew displayed they had And another comming efter néere And right vpon the same manéere They came while seuen battels brade Out ouer that high Rig passed had The Scottishmen were then lyand On North halfe néere toward Scotland The daile was streiked well I hight On ather side there was an hight And to the water downe somedeill stay The Scottishmen in good array On their best wise busked ilkane Stood in their strength that they had tane And that was far fra the Water of Wéere A quarter of a mile well néere Their stood they battell to abide The Englishmen there on ather side Came ryding downward while they were To Wéeres Water comming néere And on the other halfe their foes were Then haue they made a rest right there And sent out Archers a thousand With Hounds and Bowes in their hand And gart them well drinke of the wyne And bade them gang to bycker syne The Scottish Oast in a randoun And looke gif they might ding them doun For might they gar them breake array To haue them at
Sir Robert Logane heght the ane And the other Walter Logane Wherefore our Lord with méekle might Their soules haue to the Heauens hight THe good Lord Dowglas thus was dead And the Saracenes on that stead Abade no more but held their way Their Knights dead there soone liue they Some of the good Lord Dowglas men That their Lord dead had founden then Yéed néere all wood for dule and woe Long for him they sorrowed so And syne with greit dule home him bare And the Kings Heart haue they found there And that home with them haue they tane And are toward their Innes gane With gréeting and with euill cheare That sorrow and griefe it was to heare And of Keith good Sir Williame That all that day had beene at hame For at so greit disease was hée That hee came not to that Iournie For his arme was broken in twa When hée tha folkes sik dule saw ma Hee asked what it was in hy And they told him all openly How that their doughtie Lord was slaine With Saracenes that had turned againe And when hée wist that it was so Attour all other hée was most woe And made a wonder euill cheare That all wondred that by him were But to tell of their sorrowing Annoyes and helpes but litle thing Men might well wit thogh none them told What dule and sorrow men make wold For to tine sike a Lord as hée Was vnto them of his MenÈie For hée was swéete and debonaire And well could treat his friendes faire And his foes right fellounlie Astonish through his greit Cheualrie For of full litle feare was hée But ouer all thing hee loued Lawtie At treasoun groowed so greitly That no traitour might bee him by But hée should wit that hée should bee Well punisht for his traitourie I trow the Lord Fabricius That from Rome to wéerray Pirrhus Was sent with a greit Menyie Hated treasoun no lesse than hée The whilke when that Pirrhus had On him and on his MenÈie made An outragious discomfiture When hée escaped through auenture And mony of his men were slaine And hée had gaddered his Host againe A greit master of Medicine That Pirrhus had in gouerning Profered vnto Fabritius In treasoun for to slay Pirrhus For in his first potatioun Hée should giue him deadly poysoun Fabricius that wonder had That hée sik proffer to him made Said Certes Rome is méekle of might Through strength of armes for to fight To vanquish well their foes though they Consent to Treasoun by no way And for thou would doe that Treasoun Thou salt go fetch the warisoun Euen at Pirrhus and let him do UUhat euer him lies in heart thereto Then to Pirrhus he sent in hy This Maister and gart him openly From end to end tell all his tale UUhen Pirrhus had it heard all haill He said was neuer man that sa For Lawtie bure him to his fa As here Fabricius beares to me It is al 's ill to gar him be Turned fra way of righteousnesse Or to consent to wickednesse As at midday to turne againe The sunne that rinnes his course all plaine Thus said he of Fabricius That syne vanquisht this same Pirrhus In plaine battell through hard fighting His honest lawtie gart me bring In this Example now for he Had Soueraigne praise of true Lawtie And right so had the Lord Dowglas That honest léele and worthy was That was dead as before said we Men méened him in ilk Countrie When his men had made mourning They bowelled him but delaying And gart séeth him that might be tane The flesh all quite euen fra the bane The Corps there in a holy place Eirded with great worship was The bones haue they with them tane And syne are to their shipps gane When they were leaued of the King That dule had of their seuering To Sea they went good wind they had Their course to England haue they made And there safely arriued they Syne toward Scotland held their way And there they are commen in great hy And the bones right honourably Into the Kirk of Dowglas there Eirded with dule and méekle care Sir Archibald his sonne gart syne Of Allabast both faire and fine Ordaine a Tombe full richly As it efféered to so worthy The Erle of Murray died here Through Poysoun giuen by a false Frere WHen that on this wise Sir Williame Of Keith had brought the bones hame And the good Kings Heart alswa And had gart men richly ma With saire afféere a Sepulture The Erle of Murray that the cure That time of Scotland had haâ—lly With great worship hes gart bury The Kings Heart in the Abbay Of Melros where men do pray ay That he and his haue Paradise UUhen this was done as I deuise The good Erle gouerned all the land And held the poore well to warrand The Lawes so well maintained he And held in peace so the Countrie That it was neuer led ere his day So well as I heard old men say Bot syne alas poysoned was ho By a false Monk full traiterously Thir Lords died vpon this wise He that Lord of all thing is Up to his ioyfull blisse them bring And grant vs grace that their ofspring Lead well the land and intentife Be for to follow in all their life Their Noble Elders great bountie The onefald GOD in Trinitie May bring vs vp to Heauens blisse Where alway ioy and resting is AMEN Here endes the Booke of the Noble King That euer in Scotland yet did ring Called King Robert the Bruce That was maist worthie of all ruce And of the Noble and good Lord Dowglas And mony ma that with him was A TABLE OF the Contention that araise after the death of King Alexander who should succede to the Crowne Fol. 2 How by the consent of all the Estates King Edward of England was elected as a friendly Compositour of this contention 3 How King Edward after the attempting the mindes of the Bruce the Ballioll declared the Ballioll King 6 Of the pleasures and commodities of Libertie and the heauinesse and hurtes of seruitude of strangers 8 How sir William Dowglas was put in prison and his lands giuen to the Clifford and of his sonne Iames Dowglas 9 How the said Iames past in France and returning againe in Scotland after his fathers death dwelt with the Bishop of Sainctandros 12 Of the commoning and band made betwixt the Bruce and Cumming and how the cumming shew the Indentour to King Edward 16 How Bruce was examined before the Parliament and howe hee escaped and slewe the cumming in the Kirke of Dumfreis 18 Of the meeting of sir Iames Dowglas with Robert Bruce and of his coronation 23 How King Robert came to Pearth and sought battell of sir Aymer Wallance 26 The Iudging of King Robert in the Parke of Methwen 29 Of the battell of Methwen and discomfiture of King Robert where mony Noble men were tane 31 Of the distresse that King Robert and his folks tholled