[1] [2] The earle of Namure about the same time com|ming into England, to serue the king in his warres,The earle of Namure. tooke vpon him to passe into Scotland with a band of an hundred men of armes, beside seauen or eight knights which he brought ouer with him, and certeine Englishmen to be his guides from Berwike, Fourdon. but he was assailed before he could get to Edenburgh, by the earles of Murrey and Dunbarre, and the lord William Dowglas: so that notwithstanding the strangers bare themselues verie manfullie, yet op|pressed with multitude, they were forced to giue place, but yet still fighting and defending themselues till they came to Edenburgh, and there taking the hill where the ruines of the castell stood, kept the same all the night folowing. But the next day they despai|ring of all succours, and hauing neither meat nor drinke, at length yéelded themselues, whom the earle of Murrey receiuing right courteouslie,The earle of Murrey takẽ. Rich. Southw. shewed them such fauour, that without ransome he was con|tented they should returne into their countries: and for more suertie, he conueied the said earle of Na|mure (whome the Scotish books call earle of Gelder|land) and his companie backe to the borders; but in his returne, or shortlie after, Fourdon. the same earle of Mur|rey that tooke himselfe for gouernour of Scotland, was encountred by the Englishmen that laie in gar|rison within Rockesburgh, and by them taken priso|ner. The lord William Dowglas being there also with him escaped, but Iames Dowglas brother to the said lord William Dowglas, was at that bicke|ring slaine with diuerse other.