Caude causantur, regnarunt, apocapantur;
Privantur caude, fas fandi, Scotia, plaude.
Responsio Anglorum.
Scotia scotabit strebæ, Scotus vix latitabit;
Anglia, jam pange, fas fandi, Scotia, plange.”
[P. 168], l. 102, Johannem Warenniæ.—This was the same John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, who, staunch to the party of Henry III., had escaped from the battle of Lewes. He commanded the English army at the battle of Dunbar, was afterwards made Governor or Guardian of Scotland, and was again at the head of the English forces when they were defeated at Stirling.
[P. 169], l. 1, Quod Trentam non transient.—The King had carried with him to London the Scottish knights whom he most suspected, and, before he went to Flanders, he exacted from them solemn oaths that during his absence they would not repass the Trent without his permission.
[P. 170], l. 138, ad Strivelyne.—The battle of Stirling was fought on Thursday the 11th of September, 1297.
[P. 171], l. 141, comes dux Anglorum.—The Earl of Surrey (Warenne).