[1] [2] [3] [4] But now to the parlement. At length, when the K. had obteined of the laitie a grant of an halfe fiftéenth the same parlement was dissolued. In the summer following the borderers of England and Scotland made rodes ech into others countries,A rode into Scotland. to the great disquieting of both the realmes. Among other rodes that the Englishmen made, shortlie after Easter (as Froissard saith) the earles of Northumberland and Nottingham, raising an armie of 2000 speares, and six thousand archers, entered Scotland by Rockes|burgh, burnt the countrie euen to Edenburgh, and so returned without damage. In the meane time came messengers from the French king, to aduertise the Scots of the conclusion of the truce. But the Scots prouoked with this last inuasion made by the Englishmen into their countrie, would not heare of any truce, till they had in part reuenged their disple|sure vpon the Englishmen: and so with certeine men of armes of France,One mischief asketh ano|ther. that latelie before were come thither, not yet vnderstanding of any truce, they ro|ded into Northumberland, doing what mischiefe they might: so that for the summer season of this yeare, either part sought to indamage other (as Walsing|ham saith) though Froissard writeth, that through the earnest trauell of the messengers that came to inti|mate the abstinence of war taken, the parties now that their stomachs were well eased with the inter|change of indamaging either others confins, agréed to be quiet, and so the truce was proclamed in both realmes, and accordinglie obserued.