[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] This yeare there fell exceeding great raine and abundance of wet,Great rain [...] in the moneths of Iulie and Au|gust, that the husbandmen of the countrie could not get in that small crop which then stood on the ground, and that which they inned, yéelded not the hoped quantitie, as when it came to the threshing well ap|peared. ¶ On the day of the Assumption of our la|die, Iohn the kings second sonne was borne at El|tham.Iohn of El|tham bor [...]. ¶ A knight of Lancashire called sir Adam Banister raised war in this yeare of king Edwards reigne, against his lord the earle of Lancaster; but about the feast of saint Martine he was taken and beheaded. ¶ Also this yeare, Edward de Bruce bro|ther to the king of Scots, entred into the north parts of Ulnester with a great armie, vpon the day of S. Augustine in Maie and afterwards burnt Dun|da [...]ke, Hen M [...]rl [...] Dunda [...]ke burnt. and a great part of Argile. The Irishmen al|so burnt the church of Athird. Moreouer in the battell of Comeran in Ulnester,The battell [...] Comeran. Richard earle of Ulnester fled, and sir Richard Bourgh, & sir Iohn Mandeuile, and sir Alane fitz Waren were taken prisoners. The castell of Norbrough was also taken, & at Kent [...]s in M [...]sh the lord Roger Mortimer was discomfited by [page 323] the foresaid Edward Bruce, and manie of the said sir Rogers men were slaine and taken.