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 ( 126 ) back with eight hundred highlanders, and had almost inclou them. Bruce perceiving their danger, put his men into the disións, and after appointing their piee of rendezvous at millit, they fick three smalry ways: John of Lom having a cloth bound, pursued still after Bruch: w putting away all that were in his comparis, save one han, fed iro a woud, and great difficulty-escaped the houd. "Sir Aymer being at this time disappointed, soon after, with 1500 chosen men, attacked Bruce i Glentole-wood: but he and his gallant Companions couragiously defended themselves, and having killed most of their first assaulters, the rest fled in great confusion. This victory encouraged Bruce to leave his lurking-places, chu to attack the places of strength it. Kyle and Cunningham, all of whom he soon recluced. Sir James Douglas also, with sixty men, lying in ambush at a strait place in Cunningham, callca dhe Netherford where S. Philip Mou- bray was passing with a thousand men, to attack Bruce (being then in Kyle) killed many of them, and put the rest to flight. On the 10th of May following, Sir Aymer, with 800 men, came against Bruce, then lying in Gaston'in Kyle; Bruce hearing of his com- ing albeit he exceeded not 600 men, came forth against Inint at a place under Loudon-hill; which he so fortified, on every hand, with dyken and fousies, that the enemy could not inclose hung