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 12 the challenger, and they were going to engage, when Witherington thus addrefted himfeif to Piercy : My lord heaven forbid that I and the reft of your fervants fhould ftand idle while you are engaged ; permit therefore my good lord, that we all partake in this day’s glory. Hereupon the englifh fhouted, and the engagement became general.

CHAP.V.

Of the Tong continuance of the bat- tle,and the death of both Earls.

THE erglifh archers in the loft di- vfion immediately fent a flight of arrows,which laid fixty of the Scotch dead; and the right divifion letting fly on the flank of their battalion, ganled them moft miferably. Earl Douglas feeing his men difcouraged ordered them to advance, and come to a clofe fight whereby he in-