te: An abduction.]

Margaret had not been long in Kirkcudbright before she was
accidentally seen by a man who knew her. This man was an Englishman.
His name was Cork. He was of the Yorkist party. He said nothing when
he saw the queen, but he immediately formed the resolution to seize
her and all her party, and to convey them to England and give them up
to King Edward. He contrived some way to carry this plot into
execution. He seized de Breze and his squire, and also the queen and
the prince, and carried them on board a boat in the night, having
first bound and gagged them, to disable them from making resistance or
uttering any cries. It seems that De Breze was not with the queen when
he was taken, and as it was dark when they were put on board the boat,
and neither could speak, neither party knew that the others were there
until the morning, when they were far away from the shore, out in the
wide part of the Solway Bay.

[Sidenote: De Breze's exploit.]

In the night, however, De Breze, who was a man of address and of
great personal strength, as well as of undaunted bravery, contrived to
get free from his bonds, and also to free his squire, without letting
the boatmen know what he had done. Then, in the morning, watching for
a good opportunity, they together rose upon the boatmen, seized the
oars, and, after a violent struggle, in which they came very near
upsetting the boat, they finally succeeded in killing some of the men,
and in throwing the others overboard. They immediately liberated
Margaret and the prince, and then attempted to make for the shore.

[Sidenote: Tossed about in Solway Firth.]

After having been tossed about for some time in the Gulf or Firth of
Solway, the boat was carried by the wind away up through the North
Channel more than sixty miles, and finally was thrown upon a sand-bank
near the coast of Cantyre, a famous promontory extending into the sea
in this part of Scotland. The boat struck at some distance from the
dry land, and the sea rolled in so heavily upon it that there was
danger of its being broken to pieces; so De Breze took the queen upon
his shoulders, and, wading through the water, conveyed her to the
shore. Barville, the squire, carried the prince in the same way. And
so they were once more safe on land.

[Sidenote: They land in Scotland.]

They found the coast wild and barren, and the country desolate; but
this was attended with one advantage at least, and that was that the
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