How King Robert of Scotland defied the young King Edward and began to ravage England.

After Sir John of Hainault had left young King Edward and my lady the Queen, the king and lady governed the land with the guidance of the Earl of Kent and Lord Roger Mortimer, who had great estates in England, the revenue from his lands being fully eight thousand pounds (at a penny to the denier). Both these lords had been in exile with the Queen and the young king as recounted above. They often sought the advice, too, of Sir Thomas Wake and a number of others accounted the wisest in England, though this caused resentment in some quarters. (Indeed, it's said that envy was never dead in England – and it thrives in many other lands!) Winter passed by, and so did Lent, and Easter came, and in that time the king and my lady his mother enjoyed peace.

Meanwhile King Robert, who'd been a worthy adversary but suffered many defeats and reverses in the days of the good King Edward (the young King Edward's grandfather), had grown very old and was suffering, it was said, from the unclean sickness. But when he heard the news from England – that the king had been imprisoned and deposed and his counsellors tried and executed as you've heard – he decided to defy the young king. With him being young and the English barons by no means in agreement (as he'd been led to believe perhaps by some resentful malcontent), he thought he had a good chance of conquering part of England.