While Edward II besieged Berwick in 1319, James Douglas and Thomas Randolph led a diversionary raid deep into England. The Archbishop of York desperately assembled an army from the local population — so many monks and priests joined that the battle was dubbed the Chapter of Myton. The Scots rode through them contemptuously. The English clergy army broke and fled; many drowned crossing the Swale. Edward II had to abandon the siege of Berwick to deal with the crisis.
Estimated 4,000 English clergy and levy killed or drowned
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