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 24 Cumming joining with Lord Simon Fraser, making eight or nine thousand of an army, came to resist the English, who having wasted the country as far as Rosland, about five miles from Edinburgh, not expecting any resistance divided themselves into three parties that they might spread. desolation further into the country. The Scots taking the advantage of this circumstance set upon the first division, and easily discomfited them; the second also, albeit stronger, by the joining of those who tied, was after along conflight put to the rout. The third division coming up strongly re- pulsed the Scots, they being much fatigued and weakened in the too former encounters, and having to withstand a fresh army of greater number than either of the two former Hereupon they were forced to kill, all their prisoners, lest they should assist the enemy, and with their weapons to arm the baggage men: then engaging with the greatest intre- pidity, after a long and desperate bloody conflict, they put the enemy to flight ! This engagement was fought March 4th. 1301.

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