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[1] The Earle of Dowglas beeing withdrawen (as ye haue heard) into Englãd, within
a whyle after gote togither certayne companies of men, and with the ſame
returned agayne into Scot|land by the weſt bordures,He
inuadeth Scotland. in hope to find friends in thoſe parties: but ſuch
as the king had appoin|ted there to defend the countrey, aſſembling them ſelues
togither, and ſetting vpon hym, diſcomfi|ted
his people,
The Earle of Dowglas diſcomfited. Archebalde Dowglas Earle of Mur|rey
ſlayne.
Earle of Or|mond taken. Donald Earle of Roſſe.
ſlewe his brother Archebalde, and tooke the Earle of Ormont priſoner,
being firſte ſore wounded. The Baron of Baluay eſcaped into a Wood and ſo gote
away. The Earle him|ſelf alſo as Hector Boetius hath, eſcaped by flight and
gote him vnto Dunſtafage, where finding Donalde Earle of Roſſe and Lord of the
Iſles, he procured him (beeing of nature enclined and ready ynough to followe
ſuch counſell) to make warre in his fauoure againſte the King. And af|ter
hee hadde once ſet hym a worke, he gote
hym backe agayne into Englande. Donalde waſted not only the Kings poſſeſſions
that lay neere to Dunſtafage, but alſo paſſing through Argile, dyd muche hurte
in all places where hee came. He inuaded alſo the Iſle of Arrane, and chaſed
the Biſhoppe of Liſmore, conſtreyning hym to take Sayntuarie. This done, hee
entred into Lochquhabir, and ſo into Murray lande, where he brente the towne of
Inuernes, and wanne the Caſtell by a
guilefull trayne.