A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . d inthis convention, is proved by Godscroft, who states that inhis day King Jamess licence for its execution was in theDouglas charter-chest,^ although it has now disappeared. At this time Louis XI. of France, uniting in the policyof the Scots to foment civil war in England, struck aRelieves the bargain with Henry VI., who pledged himself toFrench gar- restore Calais to France, provided Louis would rison of ..... , ^ . Alnwick, assist him With men and money. Louis sent*^ both, but
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . d inthis convention, is proved by Godscroft, who states that inhis day King Jamess licence for its execution was in theDouglas charter-chest,^ although it has now disappeared. At this time Louis XI. of France, uniting in the policyof the Scots to foment civil war in England, struck aRelieves the bargain with Henry VI., who pledged himself toFrench gar- restore Calais to France, provided Louis would rison of ..... , ^ . Alnwick, assist him With men and money. Louis sent*^ both, but with a somewhat niggard hand. Two thousand men, under Pierre de Breze, Steward of Nor-mandy, landed in Northumberland and captured the castlesof Bamborough, Dunstanborough, and Alnwick. The twofirst were speedily retaken by Edward iv., but Alnwickheld out, and was closely invested by the Earl of , seeing a chance of beginning to earn his dukedom,marched rapidly to the relief of the Frenchmen with * Fraser, iii. 92. ^ MS. at Hamilton Palace, quoted by Fraser, ii. 60, note. 20 THE HOUSE OF DOUGLAS. Fig. 9.—Seal of Isabella Sibbald(Balgony), Countess of Angus. 20,000 men, as is reported. This force seemed to overawethe English, and they permitted a party, whereof eachman led a spare horse forthe garrison, to ride openlyup to a postern gate andwithdraw the whole of theFrenchmen to security. ItL, -Sr seems strange that War- ^i- W wick did so little, and that Angus, doing so much, didnot do more, and inflict adefeat on the besiegingforce; but there is someidea that Warwick had nocommission to fight theScots, only to take the castle from the French; and Angusperhaps acted wisely in being content with carrying outhis immediate purpose. Death deprived Angus of the honours in store for himat the hand of the English King, for he breathed his laston I 2th March 1463, and was buried at Aber-4th Earl of nethy. Before succeeding to the earldom heAngrus, i2th married Isabella, o
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