[1] Hect. Boetius. Ri. Southwell. Fabian. Froissard. There was taken also beside him, the earles of Fife, Sutherland, Wighton, and Menteth, the lord William Douglas, the lord Uescie, the archbishop of S. Andrewes, and another bishop, with sir Thomelin Foukes, and diuerse other men of name. There were slaine of one and other to the number of 15 thousand. This battell was fought beside the citie of Durham at a place called Neuils crosse,Neuils crosse. vpon a saturdaie next after the feast of saint Michaell, in the yeare of our Lord 1346. Of this ouerthrow Christopher Ok|land hath verie commendablie written, saieng,

—haud omine dextro

Iam Scotus intulerat vim Dunelmensibus agris,

Cùm formidandum saeuus bellum instruit Anglus,In Angl. praelijs sub Edward [...] 3.

Aggreditúrque hostem violantem foedera sacra.

Nominis incerti Scoticae plebs obuia gentis

Sternitur, & tristi gladio cadit impia turba,

Frustrà obluctantur Scotiae comitésque ducésque,

Quorum pars iacet occumbens; pars caetera capta

Captiuum corpus dedit vincentibus, auro

Et pacto pretio redimendum, bellicus vtmos

Postulat. At Dauid Scotiae rex captus ad vrbem

Londinum fidei pendens dignissima fractae

Supplicia, adductus celebri concluditur arce.

Exiguus numerus volucri pede fisus equorum

Effugit in patriam, testis certissimus Anglos

Deuicissesuos, & tristia funera narrant.