When the Scots saw the Englishmen recule and that they should have no battle, they went to their lodgings and made merry, and then ordained to depart from thence.  And because that sir Ralph Percy was sore hurt, he desired of his master that he might return to Newcastle or into some place, whereas it pleased him unto such time as he were whole of his hurts, promising, as soon as he were able to ride, to return into Scotland, other to Edinboro or into any other place appointed.  The earl of March, under whom he was taken, agreed thereto and delivered him a horse litter and sent him away; and by like covenant divers other knights and squires were suffered to return and took term other to return or else to pay their finance, such as they were appointed unto.  It was shewed me by the information of the Scots, such as had been at this said battle that was between Newcastle and Otterburn in the year of our Lord God a thousand three hundred fourscore and eight, the nineteenth day of August, how that there were taken prisoners of the English party a thousand and forty men, one and other, and slain in the field and in the chase eighteen hundred and forty, and sore hurt more than a thousand:  and of the Scots there were a hundred slain, and taken in the chase more than two hundred; for as the Englishmen fled, when they saw any advantage they returned again and fought:  by that means the Scots were taken and none otherwise.  Every man may well consider that it was a well fought field, when there were so many slain and taken on both parties.

How the Scots departed and carried with them the earl Douglas dead, and buried him in the abbey of Melrose; and how sir Archambault Douglas and his company departed from before Carlisle and returned into Scotland

After this battle thus finished, every man returned,[1] and the earl Douglas’ dead body chested and laid in a chare, and with him sir Robert Hart and Simon Glendowyn, then they prepared to depart:  so they departed and led with them sir Henry Percy and more than forty knights of England, and took the way to the abbey of Melrose.  At their departing they set fire in their lodgings, and rode all the day, and yet lay that night in the English ground:  none denied them.  The next day they dislodged early in the morning and so came that day to Melrose.  It is an abbey of black monks on the border between both realms.  There they rested and buried the earl James Douglas.  The second day after his obsequy was done reverently, and on his body laid a tomb of stone and his banner hanging over him.  Whether there were as then any more earls of Douglas, to whom the land returned, or not, I cannot tell; for I, sir John Froissart, author of the book, was