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                             (  24  ) tate from his valour having not only England and Ireland, and many Englished .Scots, with the duchy ©f Guienne, Bourdeaux, and other parts of France subject to him, bur also the low countries strictly confederate with him, yet King Robert prepared himself to encounter him in the helds, and gathered 35.000 men, few, but valiant.

The king of England hid above 100,000 foot, and 10.000 horse : with which multitude intending to destroy the inhabitants of Scotland, and to divide the land to his followers he came to Bannockburn, (two miles from Stirling) where on June 21st, 1314, he was encountered by the Scots, and after long & hard fighting, his great army put to the tout: himself and a small company fleeing into Dunbar, was sent by the Earl of March into England in a fisher boat, having 200 noblemen and gentlemen killed by the Scots, & as many taken : the number of the commons slain & taken was incredible.

Of Scots were slain two gentlemen of note Sir Wil- liam Wepont, and Sir Waiter Ross with 4000 common soldiers.

After this victory, Stirling being yielded, & Dum- barton gotten by composition, the earl of March, the Lord Soules, and Abernethy, and others of the Cum- mings allies? were reconciled to the King, who passing into the Isles, and brought them to obedience, taking John of Lorn captive, who died in prison in Buchle- ven.

Thus Scotland was freed of the bondage of Eng- land, except Berwick which was recovered four yeanl thereafter, 1318, and the Scots making divers incur sions into England, under the leading of earl Thomas Randal, and James lord Douglas, requitted the army received from them before, and enriched themselves with their spoil. FINIS