[1] King Dauid hauing heard and well weied the ef|fect of their request,The king of Scots inua|deth the En|glish marshes. Sim. Dunel. Matt. Paris. Polydor. foorthwith was so mooued at their words, that in all possible hast he assembled an ar|mie, and entring into England, first tooke the citie and castell of Carleil: afterward comming into Northumberland, he tooke Newcastell, and manie o|ther places vpon the borders there. Whereof king Stephan being aduertised, streightwaies assembled a power, and foorthwith hasted into Cumberland, meaning to recouer that againe by force of armes, which the enimie had stolen from him by craft and subtiltie. At his approch néere to Carleil,K. Stephan encamped néere to his enimie the K. of Scots. he pitched downe his field in the euening, thinking there to staie till the morning, that he might vnderstand of what power the enimie was, whome he knew to be at hand.