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 the said lord of Montgomery. The knights and squires of Scotland, as
sir Marc Adreman,[1] sir Thomas Erskine, sir William, sir James and sir
Alexander Lindsay, the lord of Fenton, sir John of Saint-Moreaulx,[2]
sir Patrick of Dunbar, sir John and sir Walter Sinclair, sir John
Maxwell, sir Guy Stuart, sir John Haliburton, sir Alexander Ramsay,
Robert Collemine[3] and his two sons John and Robert; who were there
made knights, and a hundred knights and squires that I cannot name, all
these right valiantly did acquit themselves. And on the English party,
before that the lord Percy was taken and after, there fought valiantly
sir Ralph Lumley, sir Matthew Redman, sir Thomas Ogle, sir Thomas Gray,
sir Thomas Helton, sir Thomas Abingdon, sir John Lilleburn, sir William
Walsingham, the baron of Helton, sir John of Colpedich,[4] the seneschal
of York and divers other footmen. Whereto should I write long process?
This was a sore battle and well foughten; and as fortune is always
changeable, though the Englishmen were more in number than the Scots and
were right valiant men of war and well expert, and that at the first
front they reculed back the Scots, yet finally the Scots obtained the
place and victory, and all the foresaid Englishmen taken, and a hundred
more, saving sir Matthew Redman, captain of Berwick, who when he knew no
remedy nor recoverance, and saw his company fly from the Scots and
yielded them on every side, then he took his horse and departed to save
himself. [1] Perhaps 'Malcolm Drummond.' [2] The true reading seems to
be 'Sandilands.' [3] Perhaps 'Coningham.' [4] Either 'Copeland' or
'Copeldike.' The same season about the end of this discomfiture there
was an English squire called Thomas Waltham, a goodly and a valiant man,
and that was well seen, for of all that night he would nother fly nor
yet yield him. It was said he had made a vow at a feast in England, that
the first time that ever he saw Englishmen and Scots in battle, he would
so do his devoir to his power, in such wise that either he would be
reputed for the best doer on both sides or else to die in the pain. He
was called a valiant and a hardy man and did so much by his prowess,
that under the banner of the earl of Moray he did such valiantness in
arms, that the Scots had marvel thereof, and so was slain in fighting:
the Scots would gladly have taken him alive, but he would never yield, h