Myton, Battle of

Victory of a Scottish army under Sir James Douglas over an army hastily raised by the archbishop of York, William Melton, on 20 September 1319 at Myton-in-Swaledale, Yorkshire. The victory forced Edward II to lift his siege of Berwick, which had fallen to Robert the Bruce the year before. The archbishop's force was largely composed of clerics died and was given the nickname of ‘the Chapter of Myton’.