Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record.

A Table of the chief Battels between the English and the Scots, since the Norman Conquest.

* 1.1AT Conton or Couton in Yorkshire, about four Miles from Alverton, August 22. 1139. where were slain above 10000 Scots, by Thurstan, Archbishop of York. Stow. This is commonly called Standard-Field. Mat. Paris puts it Anno 1138. and onely among the Horsemen of the English of any note, the Brother of Gilbert Lacy was found slain.

* 1.2At Alnwick in Northumberland, July 7. 1174. where William King of Scotland was taken Prisoner by Robert de Stotevil, Rafe Mandevil, Bernard Baliol, and William Vescy.

* 1.3At Barwick the English slew 25000 Scots, and did win Barwick and Dunbar, and conquered Edenborough, where Edward the first found the Regal Ensigns of Scotland. In his Return he called a Parliament at Barwick, where he received the Homages and Fealty of the Nobility of Scotland. Stow.

* 1.4At Flowkirk in Scotland, July 22. 1298. where were slain more than 20000 Scots. Stow.

* 1.5At Sterling in Scotland, June 24. 1313. where the English were beaten. Walsingham and Stow. Buchanan, pag. 264, 265, saith there fell 200 of the Nobility of England, or

thereabout, and near as many more of the Nobility taken Prisoners, and 50000 com∣mon Soldiers were slain, as some Scots relate; and on the part of the Scots were slain about 4000. and onely two Knights; James Duglas then General of the Scotch Forces.

At a Place by Barwick called Bothul, near Halydown,* 1.6 where were slain on the part of the Scots, 8 Earls, 1300 Horse, and 35000 common Soldiers; and Turnebull the Scotch Champion was overcome in Combat by Sir Robert Nenale, a Norfolk Gentleman. Stow. This is called The Battel of Halydown Hill.

At Durham, the 27. of October 1346.* 1.7 whiles King Edward the Third Besieged Calice in France, David Bruse, King of Scotland, (by the procurement of Philip, King of France) entered Northumberland with an Army of 60000 Men, and pitched near Durham, in a Park called Beverpeir; where the Archbishop of York, the Lord Zouch, Percy, Mow∣bray, and other Lords, and Sir Robert Bertram, Sheriff of Northumberland, with an Army of 30000 Men, met the Scots at Durham, and did beat them. In which Battel John Coupeland took David the King of Scotland Prisoner, with three Scotch Earls. So Wal∣singham. This John Coupeland of Northumberland had 500 l. per annum given him du∣ring his Life, for this Service, and was made a Banneret.

At Otterborn in Northumberland, the Scots under the Command of James Duglas,* 1.8 took Henry Percy the younger, and Rafe his Brother, Prisoners, slew 1100 English, put to flight 30000 more. Stow. This was Fought about the 12. of the Calends of August, 1388. Buchanan saith the two Generals, Henry Percy of the English, and James Duglas of the Scots, singled themselves out from the Army, and Fought apart; and Percy was unhorsed, but the English relieved him; and tells us, that there fell on the English side 1840, and about 1000 wounded, and 1040 taken Prisoners, pag. 319.

At Hallydown, near the Town of Wollar, Sept. 14. 1402. where the English,* 1.9 condu∣cted by Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Henry his Son, took Earl Duglas, the Scotch General, Prisoner, with divers others of the Flower of the Scotch Chivalry. Stow.

At Flodden-Field in Northumberland, September 9. 1513. wherein James IV.* 1.10 King of Scotland, was slain at Bramston on Piperd-Hill. Stow. Wherefore by some this is called Bramston Field; by others, Flodden Field; and though the Day fell to the English, yet there was taken and slain of the English 1500. Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, being then General of the English.

At Solomosse beyond Carlisle, November 24. 1542. where 15000 Scots,* 1.11 under the Command of the Lord Maxwell, were overthrown.

Muscleborough Field in Scotland, Fought September 10. 1547. where Edward Seymour,* 1.12 Duke of Somerset, and Lord Protector, was General of the English Forces: 14000 Scots slain, and 1500 taken Prisoners, and not above 60 English slain. Stow.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Ann. Dom. 1139. 4 Steph.
• * 1.2

  1174. 20 Hen. 2.
• * 1.3

  1296. 24 Ed. 1.
• * 1.4

  1298. 26 Ed. 1.
• * 1.5

  1313. 7 Edw. 2.
• * 1.6

  1332. 6 Edw. 3.
• * 1.7

  1346. 20 Ed. 3.
• * 1.8

  1388. 12 Rich. 2.
• * 1.9

  1402. 3 Hen. 4.
• * 1.10

  1513. 5. Hen. 8.
• * 1.11

  1542. 34 Hen. 8.
• * 1.12

  1547. 1 Edw. 6.