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 ( 127 ) him on both sides; and so by the stout and resolute valour of this small army, Sir Aymer was put to flight; which he took so sore to heart, that he retired into England, and gave ever his office of Warden, or Viceroy, John of Britain, Earl of Richmond, being sent down to Scotland in his place. Bruce, after this. past into the north, leav- ing Sir James Douglas on the borders, who, taking his own Castle of Douglas by a strata- fem, razed it to the ground, and in a few days chased all the English out of Douglas Dale, Ettrick Forest, and Jędburgh Forest, and took Sir Thomas Randal, the King's sister's son, (who had followed the English ever since his eptivity) and Sir Alexander Stewart of Bunkle. Sir Alexander and Simon Frazer meeting Bruce in the north, informed him how Cuntming, earl of Buchan, David lord Erechin, Sir John Muubray. and the rest of the Cumming faction, were gat waring an any against him, Mean. while, by the assistance of us friends in these quarters, 12 sudden, he surprised the castle of Inverness: the fame gt which victory caused niany otiter strengths to yield: all which he overthrew, and greatly increased the number of his friends; In his return, falling sick at Iavcrury, Cumming set upon hime the King, after his friends had for song time defended him, recovering a little took the field, and so hotly assaulted. the enemy at Oldmeldrup, that, although their aber was far greater, he put them to flight. With