¶ How the kyng of Scottes duryng the siege before Calys came into En∣gland with a gret host. Ca. C .xxxvii.
IT is longe nowe syth we spake of kyng Dauyd of Scotlande / howe be it tyll nowe there was none occasi¦on why / for the trewse that was takenue was well and trewly kept. So that whan the kynge of Englande had be sieged Calays and lay there / than the Scottes determyned to make warre into Englande / and to be reuen∣ged of such hurtes as they had taken before / for they sayde than / howe that the realme of Eng∣lande was voyde of men of warr / for they were as they sayd with the kyng of Englande before Calys / and some in Bretaygne / Poyctou / and Gascoyne: the frenche kyng dyd what he coude to styrre the scottes to that warre / to the entent that the kynge of Englande shulde breke vp his siege / and retourne to defende his owne realme The kynge of Scottes made his sommons to be at saynt John̄s towne / on the ryuer of Tay in Scotlande: thyder came erles / barownes / and prelates of Scotlande: and there agreed that in all haste possyble / they shulde entre into Englande / to come in that iourney was desy∣red Johan of the out Iles / who gouerned the wylde scottes: for to hym they obeyed and to no man els. He came with a thre thousande of the moost outragyoust people in all that countrey. Whan all the scottes were assembled / they were of one and other / a fyftie thousande fightynge menne: they coude nat make their assemble soo secrete / but that the quene of Englande / who was as thanne in the marchesse of the Northe about yorke / knewe all their dealynge. Than̄e she sent all about for menne / and lay herselfe at yorke: than all men of warre and archers came to Newcastell with the quene. In the meane se∣ason the kyng of scottes departed fro saynt Jo∣hannes towne / and wente to Done Fremelyne the firste day / the nexte day they passed a lytell arme of the see and so came to Esdērmelyne / and than to Edēbrough. Than they nombred their company / and they were a thre thousande men of armes knyghtes and squyers / and a thretie thousande of other on hackenayes: thanne they came to Rousbourg the first fortresse englysshe on that parte / captayne there was sir Wyllyam Montague / the scottes passed by without any assaut makynge / and so went forthe brennynge and distroyenge the countrey of Northumber∣lande / and their currours ranne to yorke and brent as moche as was without the walles and retourned agayne to their host / within a dayes iourney of Newcastell vpon Tyne.