Sir Francis de Surienne, called the Arragonian, takes the town and castle of Fougeres, belonging to the duke of Brittany, notwithstanding the truce between the kings of France and of England.--The great mischiefs he does there 427 CHAP. LXXIV. The populace of London rise against the king's officers.--They inhumanly murder the bishop of Glocester, and imprison the marquis of Suffolk,--but the king sets him at liberty 431 CHAP. LXXV. Three malefactors, two men and one woman, are condemned to death by the court of parliament at Paris 434 CHAP. LXXVI. In consequence of the capture of Fougeres, the allies of the duke of Brittany gain the town and castle of Pont de l'Arche from the English.--Gerberoy is afterwards taken 436 HERE BEGINNETH THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE CHRONICLES OF _ENGUERRAND DE MONSTRELET_. CHAP. I. JAMES I. KING OF SCOTLAND IS MURDERED IN HIS BED-CHAMBER DURING THE NIGHT BY HIS UNCLE THE EARL OF ATHOL.--OTHER MATTERS. About this time, a very cruel and surprising event took place in Scotland, while the king resided at Perth in the middle of his realm, and held his court at an abbey of Jacobins, situated on the river Tay, a conspiracy was formed against his life by some who hated him. The leader was his own uncle the earl of Athol[1]. The earl came to Perth the second Wednesday in Lent, which was one of the ember weeks, accompanied by about thirty men, and, an hour after midnight made for the king's bed-chamber, who was unsuspicious of what was intended. They instantly broke open the door, and having gained an entrance, most barbarously assassinated him with upward of thirty wounds, some of which went through his heart. During this transaction, his queen, sister to the earl of Somerset, endeavoured to save him, but was villainously wounded in two places by some of the murderers. When the deed was done, they hurried away, to save themselves by flight. The cries of the queen, and of her attendants, soon made the matter publicly known throughout the palace and town, when crowds hastened to the king's bed-chamber, where they found him mangled and dead, and the queen wounded. Great sorrow and lamentations were shown on the occasion,--and on the morrow the king was interred at the Carthusians. Shortly after, the nobles and great lords of Scotland were summoned, and agreed with the queen, that the murderers should be immediately pursued, which was instantly executed,--and the assassins were arrested, and put to death in various ways, and with divers torments.