FOOTNOTES:
[5] Under the years 1446, 47, 48, 49, 50, in Andrew's History of Great Britain, &c.
'An invasion of Scotland is attempted by the English, led by the earl of Northumberland and Magnus Reidman. They are defeated at Sark[6] by the Scots, under the command of the lord Douglas and his brother the earl of Ormond.'
I see from Douglas's Peerage that it ought to be Archibald earl of Murray, (and not lord Douglas) third son to James VII. earl of Douglas. The earl of Ormond was his next brother.
The following extract is from Hutchinson's History of Northumberland, page 233, vol. ii.
'Henry earl of Northumberland, in the 14th Henry VI. made an unsuccessful irruption into Scotland,—and at Piperden was defeated by the earl of Angus, with the loss of 1500 men.
'In the 29th of the same reign he entered Scotland again, and engaged, near the river Sark, a large body of Scots under the command of sir William Wallace of Craigey, where he again had a defeat, and narrowly escaped being made prisoner,—his son choosing to throw himself into the hands of the enemy to save his father.'
[6] Sark,—a river in Scotland formed of two branches, the white and black, falls into the Eden four miles below Carlisle.
[7] De Couren. Couvren.——MS. Du Cange.
[8] Mortain,—a town in Normandy, on the river Lances, on the borders of Maine.