[1] On the sixtéenth of September a number of [page 970] Scots and Frenchmen attempted to enter into England on the east borders. But the Englishmen perceiuing them about to passe by a certeine streict, set vpon them, and slue and tooke of them to the num|ber of seuen score. Among the prisoners that were taken, the lord of Humes sonne, and a French cap|teine were accompted chiefest. Also in another rode made into the west borders, the lord Maxwels sonne, and diuerse others were taken.Ouerthrowes on both sides, betwixt the English and Scots. But at an other time about the same season also, certeine Englishmen to the number of fiue hundred, making their entrie by the west borders into Scotland, were discomfited by the Scots, and the more part of them either taken or slaine. Thus were they occupied as well on the bor|ders betwixt England and Scotland, in this season, as also in the marches of Calis, Guisnes, and Bul|lognois, where the garrisons lieng in those places, made continuall rodes & forraies into the marches of the enimies countrie, and oftentimes chanced to incounter with some of their troops.