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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries
from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.4
page 357
In this manner was Berwick caftle regained. The earl of Northumberland appointed John Biffet conftable thereof, a very valiant fquire, through whofe means, as you have already heard, it had been reconquered- He had every part of it re-paired, and the bridge which he had broken down reftored.
CHAP. LXXI.
THE IARLSOF NORTHUMBERLAND AND NOTTING-. HAM ENTER SCOTLAND WITH A LARGE ARMY.
* earls of Northumberland and Nottingham, the two moft powerful barons of the army, de-termined to make an excurfion after their enemies, and if they could find them to offer them battle. As they had refolved, fo did they execute : early on a morning they marched away taking the road to Roxburgh up Tweedfide. - When they had marched about three leagues, they called a council, and the two earls thought it advifeable to fend a detachment to Melrofe, a large monaftery of black monks, fituated on the Tweed, which is the boundary of the two kingdoms, to know if any Scots were lying thereabouts in ambufcade ; whilft they with the main body would march into the Merfe » by which means they would not fail of hearing fome news of the Scots. ,
That
FTER the re-capture of Berwick caftle, the
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