[1] [2] Shortlie after the earle of Hertford lieng on the borders, as lieutenant of the north parts of Eng|land,The earle of Hertford in|uadeth Scot|land. calling to him an armie of twelue thousand men, or thereabouts, what of Englishmen and stran|gers, entred Scotland with the same, and burnt a great part of the Mers, and Teuidale, as Kelsaie ab|beie and the towne; Melrosse abbeie & Driborne ab|beie, also Iedworth abbeie, and diuerse other places, townes, and villages, to the number of fiue score. Kelsaie abbeie was defended a while by thrée hun|dred Scots, but in the end the most part of them were slaine, & taken by the strangers and others that gaue the assault. Thus the earle of Hertford sore in|damaged the Scots by this inuasion, and yet neither they, nor the Frenchmen their assistants, dur [...] come foorth into the field once to incounter with him.