: CHAP. LXIX. , "4kE BARONS AND KNIGHTS OF séoTLAND, IN " * CONJUNCTION WITH SOME FRENCH KNIGHTS, ' • UNDERTAKE AN EXPEDITION * INTO ENGLAND ' WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OP THE KING OF SCOTLAND, WHO SENDS A ^ HERALD' TO • MAKE HIS EXCUSES TO THE' KING OP ENG- * LAND, " • : ' " f ' SIR Geoffry lie Charny ftnd the other knight* , • and fquirefe were much [pleafed at this in-, teHigencô. . Jawing Pertly 4hey continued s their march until they arrivod at Edinburgh. They gave not the; firtaEeft hint of their expëà-- tations, and had not remained. there twelve .. dftys when thçearl of Douglas gave them a Se-cret invitation to come to him, and at the faute time fent horfes to conduct them to his castle of Dalkeith. On the morrow after their anri-,val* he carried them to where the baron^nd ^ knights of Scotland were mustering ; thçir mete. :In three days time they amounted to upwar&s . of fifteen thoufand on horfeback, all armed .aft. cording to the ufual manner of the country. .When the whole were collected, they fftidjfhcy would make an inroad, and revenge themfètofts t on the Englifh for the mifchiefs they had doçfar They began their march through th# ifoods and forests of their country, and entered Nfft)§-, nmberland,