We remember the victories and forget the defeats. But not this one. The King, thirteen earls, countless lesser nobles, the Archbishop of St. Andrews, two bishops, two abbots, three Highland chiefs and over ten thousand men-at-arms "a wede away". It left around one third of Scotland's nobility below the age of 16. James IV, brought up on Blind Harry's tales of Wallace and Barbour's Brus, thought it was enough to take Bruce's sword into battle with him, but God turned out to be an Englishman. Long after the defeat, it is said that some English workmen played football with the King's heid. Now that's not cricket.
"The Scots love me worst of any Inglisheman living, be reason that I fande the body of the King of Scotts, slayne in the felde." -- Lord Dacre
(The armorial Dacre was awarded by King Henry VIII can be seen on my channel page.)
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