[1] Whilest the king was thus occupied about his warres in Normandie, the Scots in great number, entring England, Titus Liuius. The Scots inuade the English bor|ders. wasted the countrie with fire and sword whersoeuer they came. The English lords that were left in trust with the keeping of those parties of the realme, raised the whole power of the countries, so that there came togither the number of an hun|dred thousand men vpon Baw moore, where the gene|rall assemblie was made, Titus Liuius. A great armie to resist the Scots. and as it chanced, the duke of Excester, vncle to the king, who had latelie before mustered a certeine number of men to conueie them ouer to the king as a new supplie to his armie there, was the same time in the north parts on pilgrimage at Bridlington; and hearing of this inuasion made by the Scots, Thom. Walsin. tooke vpon him to be generall of the armie prepared against them, and to giue them bat|tell. Also, the archbishop of Yorke, although he was not able to sit on horssebacke by reason of his great age, caused himselfe to be caried foorth in a charet in that iournie, the better to incourage other. But the Scots hearing that the Englishmen approched to|ward them with such a puissance, withdrew backe in|to their countrie,The Scots recoile home. and durst not abide the bickering; either because they mistrusted an infortunat euent on their side, by reason of the English prowesse; or else for that they had learned by others ouerthrowes to auoid the like, wherein standeth a profitable point of wisedome, as the poet verie sententiouslie saith,

Plautus. Feliciter sapit qui in alieno periculo sapit.