I shall shew you of sir Matthew Redman, who was on horseback to save himself, for he alone could not remedy the matter.  At his departing sir James Lindsay was near to him and saw how sir Matthew departed, and this sir James, to win honour, followed in chase sir Matthew Redman, and came so near him that he might have striken him with his spear, if he had list.  Then he said:  ’Ah, sir knight, turn; it is a shame thus to fly:  I am James of Lindsay:  if ye will not turn, I shall strike you on the back with my spear.’  Sir Matthew spake no word, but strake his horse with the spurs sorer than he did before.  In this manner he chased him more than three miles, and at last sir Matthew Redman’s horse foundered and fell under him.  Then he stept forth on the earth and drew out his sword, and took courage to defend himself; and the Scot thought to have stricken him on the breast, but sir Matthew Redman swerved from the stroke, and the spear-point entered into the earth.  Then sir Matthew strake asunder the spear with his sword; and when sir James Lindsay saw how he had lost his spear, he cast away the truncheon and lighted afoot, and took a little battle-axe that he carried at his back and handled it with his one hand quickly and deliverly, in the which feat Scots be well expert, and then he set at sir Matthew and he defended himself properly.  Thus they tourneyed together, one with an axe and the other with a sword, a long season, and no man to let them.  Finally sir James Lindsay gave the knight such strokes and held him so short, that he was put out of breath in such wise that he yielded himself, and said:  ’Sir James Lindsay, I yield me to you.’  ‘Well,’ quoth he, ’and I receive you, rescue or no rescue,’ ‘I am content,’ quoth Redman, ’so ye deal with me like a good companion.’  ‘I shall not fail that,’ quoth Lindsay, and so put up his sword.  ‘Well, sir,’ quoth Redman, ’what will you now that I shall do?  I am your prisoner, ye have conquered me.  I would gladly go again to Newcastle, and within fifteen days I shall come to you into Scotland, whereas ye shall assign me.’  ‘I am content,’ quoth Lindsay:  ’ye shall promise by your faith to present yourself within this three weeks at Edinboro, and wheresoever ye go, to repute yourself my prisoner,’ All this sir Matthew sware and promised to fulfil.  Then each of them took their horses and took leave each of other.  Sir James returned, and his intent was to go to his own company the same way that he came, and sir Matthew Redman to Newcastle.

Sir James Lindsay could not keep the right way as he came:  it was dark and a mist, and he had not ridden half a mile, but he met face to face with the bishop of Durham and more than five hundred Englishmen with him.  He might well escaped if he had would, but he supposed it had been his own company, that had pursued the Englishmen.  When he was among them, one demanded of him what he was.  ‘I am,’ quoth he, ’sir James Lindsay,’ The bishop heard those words and stept to him and