[1] Before Christmasse the king returned into Eng|land, but the king of Scots remained all the winter in saint Iohns towne with a sober companie. When the king had setled the state of Scotland vnder the gouernement of the Balioll,A statute or|deined by [...] Scots in [...]|uour of [...] of England. those Scotishmen which tooke part with the Balioll, ordeined as it were in re|compense of king Edwards friendship a statute, whereby they bound themselues to the said king Ed|ward and his heires kings of England, that they should aid and assist him against all other princes: and whensoeuer it chanced that either he or any king of England being rightfull inheritor, had any wars against any prince, either within the land or without, the Scotishmen of their owne proper costs and ex|penses should find thrée hundred horssemen, & a thou|sand footmen well and sufficientlie arraied for the warre, the which thirtéene hundred men the Scots should wage for a whole yeare: & if the king of Eng|land ended not his warres within the yeare, then he to giue wages to the said number of thirteene hun|dred Scots, as he dooth to other of his souldiers and men of warre. There be that write, that the king of England should not onlie fortifie saint Iohns towne about this time, as before is mentioned, Polydor. but also saint Andrews, Cowper, Aberdine, Dunfermeling, with certeine other castels,Townes [...] by [...] Edwards [...] Scotland leauing garisons of men in the same. But for so much as ye may read sufficientlie of those troubles, in Scotland; and of the returne of king Dauid foorth of France, and how his realme was recouered out of the Baliols hands in the Sco|tish chronicles: we néed not here to make anie long discourse thereof.