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388 Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart.
country to subjection if they could. Their commanders were my
lord Edward Bruce, the king's brother, and his kinsman my lord
Thomas Randolf, Earl of Moray, both enterprising and valiant
knights, having a very strong force with them. Landing in
Ireland, and receiving some slight aid from the Irish, they captured
from the King of England's dominion much land and many
towns, and so prevailed as to have my lord Edward made king
by the Irish. Let us leave him reigning there for the present,
just as many kinglets reign there, till we shall describe elsewhere
how he came to be beheaded, and let us return to Scotland.
The Scots, then, seeing that affairs were going everywhere in
their favour, invaded the bishopric of Durham about the feast of
the Apostles Peter and Paul, 1 and plundered the town of Hartle-
pool, whence the people took to the sea in ships ; but they did
not burn it. On their return they carried away very much booty
from the bishopric.
Also, a little later in the same year, on the feast of S. Mary
Magdalene, 2 the King of Scotland, having mustered all his forces,
came to Carlisle, invested the city and it
besieged
for ten days,
trampling down all the crops, wasting the suburbs and all within
the bounds, burning the whole of that district, and driving
in a
very great store of cattle for his army from Allerdale, Copland,
and Westmorland. On every day of the siege they assaulted one
of the three gates of the city, sometimes all three at once ; but
never without loss, because there were discharged upon them from
the walls such dense volleys of darts and arrows, likewise stones,
that they asked one another whether stones bred and multiplied
within the walls. Now on the fifth day of the siege they set up
a machine for casting stones next the church of Holy Trinity,
where their king stationed himself, and they cast great stones
continually against the Caldew gate 3 and against the wall, but
they did little or no injury to those within, except that they
killed one man. But there were seven or eight similar machines
within the city, besides other engines of war, which are called
springalds, for discharging long darts, and staves with sockets for
casting stones, which caused great fear and damage to those outside.
Meanwhile, however, the Scots set up a certain great
berefrai like a kind of tower, which was considerably higher
than the city walls. On perceiving this, the carpenters of the city
erected upon a tower of the wall against which that engine must
come if it had ever reached the wall, a wooden tower loftier than
1
29th June.
2 22nd July,
8 On the west of the town.