[1] [2] In the meane time Leolin comming néere vnto the said castell of Mountgomerie, by the practise of a traitorous moonke,The English men distressed. trained foorth the English souldi|ers which laie in garrison there, and counterfeiting to flee, till he had laid them vp in bogs and mires with their horsses, so as they could not helpe them|selues he fell vpon them, and so slue and tooke a great number of them euen as he could haue wished. The king aduertised hereof, hasted the faster forward, and comming into those parts, as he passed by an abbeie of the Ciffeaux order (of which house the moonke was that had betraied the Englishmen of Mountgome|rie) he burned a grange that belonged to the same abbeie, and further spoiling the same abbeie it selfe, he had set it on a light fire also, if the abbat therof had not redéemed it with the summe of thrée hundred marks of siluer. After this, he caused Mawds ca|stell to be repaired and fortified,Mawds ca|stell repaired. which the Welshmen in times past had ouerthrowne, and when the worke was finished, he left there a strong garrison of soul|diers to kéepe backe the Welshmen from making their accustomed incursions.