and his queen across the Border, where Kennedy entertained the melancholy exile in the Castle of St Andrews.

The grateful Henry restored Berwick to the Scots, who could not hold it long.

In June 1461, while the Scots were failing to take Carlisle, Edward IV.

was crowned, and sent his adherent, the exiled Earl of Douglas, to treat for an alliance with the Celts, under John, Lord of the Isles, and that Donald Balloch who was falsely believed to have long before been slain in Ireland.
It is curious to think of the Lord of the Isles dealing as an independent prince, through a renegade Douglas, with the English king.

A treaty was made at John's Castle of Ardtornish--now a shell of crumbling stone on the sea-shore of the Morvern side of the Sound of Mull--with the English monarch at Westminster.