[1] The nobles of the contrarye faction (as Pa|trike Dunbar Erle of Marthe, Androwe Mur|ray, and William Douglas with other) tooke greate deſpite thereat, and reyſing an armye to reſtrayne his inſolente doings, came towardes him, whereof he being aduertiſed (as then lying at ſiege before the caſtell of Kyldrummy) roſe and met them in the fieldes within the forreſt of Kilblayn, where hee gaue them a ſore battayle, and hadde gone away with the victorie, had not Iohn Crag Captayne of Kildrummy ſallyed foorth of the caſtel with three hundred freſh men, and comming to the ſuccour of his frendes,The Earle of Athole is ſlain re|newed the battaile in ſuch earneſt wiſe, that the aduerſaries therby were diſcomfited, Earle Da|uid their chieftayne beeyng ſlayne in the fielde, with Walter Bryde, Robert Cumyn, and a greate number of other, bothe Gentlemen and commons.