umberland, on the lands of the iord^ Percy, which they pillaged and burnt. They ad-vanced further, and then returned through the estates of the eari of Nottingham and the lord . Mowbray, to wbofe lands they did much da-mage. They pafied by Roxburgh: for they had.a very large booty with them, as well in men as in cattle, and returned to their own country without any lofs ; for the English had , been &me*irae diQaaded, and could not be re-aflembled In time to oppofe them : they were, therefore, obliged to fuffer this infult, as thejr hid before given a fimilar one to the Scots. * The king of Scotland could easily éxcrffe ' himfelf for this inroad, m hè had been kept .entirely ignorant of their affembling and march. Since the country was fo hficlined, it wbtnot -jnaieriaî that he ftould know any thing about -it y but fuppoting he had known it, and there bad been - no other treaties than thofiç whicfc . existed between the two countries, they would not Mate acted otherwife for him. " Notwithstrnidingthe batons of Scotland, vnïh «bê French knights, had thus invaded England, mt Hemart de Matâé and sir Peter de Flamel con-tained to reside at Edinburgh, near king Robert : * they allowed the Scots ta act as they pleafed, that jtmigbt notbe faid, nor the English fixppofe, that it was through their fault, orthofe oftheir country ' wii* had come with them, that the treaties had beetk infringed which had been concluded at •olinghen by the nobles and council of France, England âii