[1] When word hereof came to king Stephan, he was maruellouslie vexed: for being determined to haue pursued the Scots euen to the vttermost limits of their countrie, he was now driuen to change his mind, and thought it good at the first to stop the pro|ceedings of his enimies at home, least in giuing them space to increase their force, they might in pro|cesse of time growe so strong, that it would be an hard matter to resist them at the last. Herevpon ther|fore he returned southward, Simon Dun. Matth. Paris. The castle of Douer deli|uered to the quéene. Polydor. and comming vpon his enimies, recouered out of their hands diuers of those places which they held, as Hereford, and the castle of Shrewesburie. About the same time one Walkeline yéelded the castle of Douer vnto the quéene, who had besieged him within the same.