uld be found (p. 219)
ways to the having away specially of the Duke of Orleans, and
also of the K. as well as of the remnant of my said prisoners,
that God do defend! [which God forbid!] Wherefore I will that the
Duke of Orleans be kept still within the castle of Pomfret,
without going to Robertis Place, or to any other disport; for it
is better he lack his disport than we be deceived."

[Footnote 167: Probably the mammet, or mawmet,
[puppet,] (a corruption, they say, of Mahomet,) of
Scotland, was the pretended Richard, the deposed
King, whom even now many believed to be still alive
there.]

The Scots on one side laid siege to Berwick, from which they were
driven by the Earl of Northumberland, Hotspur's son; the other part of
the Scotch army directed their attack on Roxborough, where they were
routed by the united forces of the Dukes of Exeter[168] and
Bedford,[169] and the Archbishop of York. That military prelate,
unable, from the weakness of age, to ride, yet caused himself to be
carried to the field, that surrounded by his clergy he might encourage
his people to defend their native land.

[Footnote 168: The Duke of Exeter was then governor
of Harfleur, but was in England recruiting soldiers
to reinforce the King's army in Normandy.]

[Footnote 169: It is curious to observe, that the
Duke of Bedford is reported to have been engaged at
his devotions at Bridlington in Yorkshire; and
that, on hearing of the invasion, he threw away his
beads, and marched with all the forces he could
muster to meet the Scots. John of Bridlington seems
to have been in an especial manner the patron saint
of Henry IV.'s family.]

After these successful military proceedings in the north of the
kingdom, parliament met on Nov. 16. They prayed for speedy judgment on
rioters and malefactors; presented a petition on the subject of Sir
John Oldcastle; supplicated for a reward to the Lord Powys, who (p. 220)
was instrumental in seizing him; and then they voted the King a
subsidy of a tenth and a fifteenth. The clergy also in convocation
granted two tenths. In this convocation an attempt was made to
encour