CHAP. EVI. THE EARL OF CAMBRIDGE SAILS FOR PORTU-GAL. THE DUKi OF LANCASTER GOES TO THE BORDERS OF SCOTLAND, TO MAKE A TRUCE WITH THE SCOTS. npHE duke of Lancafter, having made his pre-paradons, left the king and.his brothers. On taking leave of the earl of Cambridge, he fwore to him, by his faith, that on his return from Scotland, he would fpeedily follow him to Portugal, if no hindrance which he could not then forefee hap-pened in England to prevent him. On this, the duke departed, taking the road to Scotland, and at-tended only by thofe of his houfchold. In this parliament, the earl of Northumberland was appointed lieutenant of all Northumberland, the bifhoprick of Durham, and as much of Wales *s to the banks of the Severn : he therefore left London for thofe parts, but it was about fifteen days after the departure of the duke of Lancaftcr. ' The earl of Cambridge took leave of the king and his brother the earl of Buckingham, ] to complete the forces for the expedition he had un-dertakeh to command. He made his rendezvous at Plymouth, where he was the firft who arrived, bringing with him his lady Ifabella and his ion John, whom he intended carrying with him to Portugal. The