said:  ‘Lindsay, ye are taken:  yield ye to me.’  ‘Who be you?’ quoth Lindsay. ‘l am,’ quoth he, ‘the bishop of Durham.’  ’And from whence come you, sir?’ quoth Lindsay.  ‘I come from the battle,’ quoth the bishop, ’but I struck never a stroke there.  I go back to Newcastle for this night, and ye shall go with me,’ ‘I may not choose,’ quoth Lindsay, ’sith ye will have it so.  I have taken and I am taken; such is the adventures of arms.’  ‘Whom have ye taken?’ quoth the bishop.  ‘Sir,’ quoth he, ‘I took in the chase sir Matthew Redman.’  ’And where is he?’ quoth the bishop.  ’By my faith, sir, he is returned to Newcastle:  he desired me to trust him on his faith for three weeks, and so have I done,’ ‘Well,’ quoth the bishop, ’let us go to Newcastle, and there ye shall speak with him.’  Thus they rode to Newcastle together, and sir James Lindsay was prisoner to the bishop of Durham.

Under the banner of the earl de la March and of Dunbar was taken a squire of Gascoyne, called John of Chateauneuf, and under the banner of the earl of Moray was taken his companion John de Camiron.  Thus the field was clean avoided, or the day appeared.  The Scots drew together and took guides and sent out scurrers to see if any men were in the way from Newcastle, to the intent that they would not be troubled in their lodgings; wherein they did wisely, for when the bishop of Durham was come again to Newcastle and in his lodging, he was sore pensive and wist not what to say nor do; for he heard say how his cousins the Percies were slain or taken, and all the knights that were with them.  Then he sent for all the knights and squires that were in the town; and when they were come, he demanded of them if they should leave the matter in that case, and said:  ’Sirs, we shall bear great blame if we thus return without looking on our enemies,’ Then they concluded by the sun-rising every man to be armed, and on horseback and afoot to depart out of the town and to go to Otterburn to fight with the Scots.  This was warned through the town by a trumpet, and every man armed them and assembled before the bridge, and by the sun-rising they departed by the gate towards Berwick and took the way towards Otterburn to the number of ten thousand, what afoot and a-horseback.  They were not gone past two mile from Newcastle, when the Scots were signified that the bishop of Durham was coming to themward to fight:  this they knew by their spies, such as they had set in the fields.

After that sir Matthew Redman was returned to Newcastle and had shewed to divers how he had been taken prisoner by sir James Lindsay, then it was shewed him how the bishop of Durham had taken the said sir James Lindsay and how that he was there in the town as his prisoner.  As soon as the bishop was departed, sir Matthew Redman went to the bishop’s lodging to see his master, and there he found him in a study, lying in a window,[1] and said:  ‘What, sir James Lindsay, what make you here?’ Then sir James came forth of