ON þe Wissonday at Burgh in Lyndeseie
Com bode to þe kyng, & þus gan þei seie,
þat þe duke Siward [Vide Johan. Forduni Sco|tichron. p. 396.] had taken in his balie
Machog, þe Scottes kyng, þat wild, þorgh traitourie,
Haf traised Edward þe kyng, þat in þe North was rife.
þerfor Machog les þe reame & his life.
He gaf it to Malcolme, þat was of Cumberland.
þorgh gift of Edward he seised it in his hand.
Malcolme mad homage tille Edward our kyng,
þat he & alle his age of Ingland suld hold þat þing.
GRIFFYN, kyng of Wales, þat ilk self ȝere [Griffynus de Wallia bellum mo|vit contra Edwardum Regem.]
Was proued traitoure fals, & þat bouht he fulle dere.
Opon þe tuelft euen Griffyn his hede les,
To Gloucester was it brouht befor þe kyng at des.
Edward had a kosyn in preson at Hungarie,
Edmunde, his broþer sonne, was þer þorgh tricherie.
þe kyng sent to frendes for him alle aboute,
For praier at þe last þe childe was laten oute.
Home vnto Inglond þe childe tille Edward cam,
& for þat childe's luf forgeten was William.
þouht he not of þe trouth, þat he to William plight,
For to mak him his heyre, if he þe lond haf myght.
Neuerþeles to William he ȝeld him wele his bone,
Of þis no more to speke, þe childe died right sone.
Algar, an erle of [Others say, he was earl of Chester. See p. 121. of Mr. Thomas Ellis's Ed. of part of Dr. Powell's History of Wales. But it should be rather, earl of Mercia. See Dugdale's Baronage, Tom. I. p. 10.] Kent, þat tyme exiled was;
My boke sais with wrong, he did no trespas.
