[4] He again found himself in trouble in 1314 when an arrest warrant was issued for both John and his father who led a group of dozens of men on a raid upon the Abbot of Fountains Abbey's land at Aldeburgh and Balderby, Yorkshire.

[5] Timber, two hundred sheep, fifty oxen and four carts were stolen and the Abbot's servants suffered kidnapping, beatings, cuts and had their beards plucked out.

[6] Following the disastrous defeat Robert the Bruce and his armies swept south[7] and John was again summoned to defend the north against the rampant Scots at Berwick-upon-Tweed on 30 June 1314.

[7] In the last half of 1322 John was summoned to help repel Bruce and drive him back into Scotland where he operated a scorched earth policy to deprive the English of food.

[4] Rather than returning to England Isabella stayed in France where she embarked upon an affair with Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and formed a plot to oust her husband, Edward II, from the throne.