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 ( 48 ) men, poſsessions, and goods, moveable and up- misle: Wherefore we 'strictly forbid you to do any hart, mischief, or injury whatever, to their persons, lands, or goods, under pain and forfeiture of your own goods and estates to the King or to kill any of them, under pain of death. And we will, that these Letters be in foree for a whole year, and no longer. Given at Exseldesham, 7th of November." The army next marched towards Newcastle and when passing the village of Kyton, the inhabitants, confident of the impossibility of attacking them, because their village was al- most surrounded with water, insulted the Scots with opprobrious language and made them the objects of their derision. But this was too much to suffer with impunity. Wallace and his men passed through the water and set fire to their village. Filled with the greatest cor- sternation, the terrified inhabitantſ its fled with precipitation; and the dread coon became so universal, that none ventured to appear in the fields. The cities of Durham and Newcastle, however, defended themselves, and Wallace, not deeming it prudent to besiege them at that season of the year, returned home, having obtained much glory to his countrymen, and distinguished lustre to the Scottish arms. The fame of Wallace, and his splendid vie- teries, attracted the attention of the courts of France and England, and became the subjects of general conversation. Philip the Fair, of France,