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 19 the English,was rather a matter of by than choice as they found their forces broken and disconcerted throuhg their ill success in the last engagement.And indeed, to regardless was Edward of the  that in the following month of April lonf before Bruce had expired it was determined in a Council held by him at Carrisle to treachery in order to effectuate that purpose which ha found it so difficult to accomplish by the valour of hid arms.

With this view it was resolved to call a Court of Justice,consisting of the who opposed his interest in Scotland,in two separate places, Fiz: Ayr and Glasgow in order when so   he might more easily accomplish their destruction.— Accordingly the English force was divided one party was detained for Ayr while the other under Perey of Nothemberland, directed their course towards Glasgow.

On the day appointed for holding the Court at Ayr,great number fell a scarify: to this stratagem,though Wallace who was lurking in the neigbourgh with his forces,amply repaid them for their treacherous but in such a manner as could only be justified by the nature of the attack. He next sent his march with three hundred cavalry, to- wards Glasgow, with a view of defeating the design by the enemy at that peace. Having arrived there at time o'Clock in the morning,he drew up his men at the North