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 ( 125 ) Edward sent his son (Prince Edward) with a great army to besiege this Castle. The Queen hearing this, fled to the Frith of Tain, in Rose- shire: but the Earl of Poss took her. and her daughter and sent then captives into England. The Castle of Kildrimmy was traiterously burnt by one of the warrison, and all that were therein taken and hanged, at the command of Edward. BRUCE seeing winter approaching, and find- ing no retreat on the main land, retired with bis most entire friends to his old friend Angus Lord of the Isles; with whom he stayed a short time in Kintyre, and thereafter went to the Isle of Rachline, where he lurked all the winter, almost every one supposing him dead. The next spring he landed quietly in Carrick, and on & sudden took Iris own Castle of Turn- berry, obliging Lord Piercy to fly from it to his own country. Sir James Douglas departing thence secretly, came into Douglasdale, and by means of Thomas Dickson, an old servant of his father's, he recovered his own Castle of Douglas, and pulled it down. Thereafter he returned to Bruce, at Cumnock, and informed him that Aymer de Vallance and John of Lorn were coming against him with an army. BRUCE, with five hundred valiant men, kept shemselves in a very strong place, waiting for Sir Aymer, but had no suspicion of John of anna, who, feeling a compass, set upon his backs