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====Scottish Invaders?====
The handbook refers to an event where "Malcolm King of Scots attacked Chester" identifying this Malcolm is probblematicproblematic. The 11th Century King of the Scots, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_(Macbeth) Malcolm III] (d.1093) got closest. He is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_(Macbeth) same character] who turns up in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth "Scottish Play"] and his forces did defeat the previous Scottish king at Dunsinnan in 1054 ("he who isn't named" wasn't killed in the battle - but at the Battle of Lumphanan some years later). The historical [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_III_of_Scotland Malcolm III] invaded England five times often with the excuse that he was supporting the claim to the English throne of his brother-in-law [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_%C3%86theling Edgar Ætheling]. Edgar's supporters included [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin,_Earl_of_Mercia Edwin, the Earl of Mercia], who may have been based at Chester, but there is no evidence that Malcolm ever came closer than Lancashire with his army. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_IV_of_Scotland#Malcolm_IV_and_Henry_II Malcom IV] did come to Chester in 1157, but that was to pay homage to Henry II and lose lands which [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_I_of_Scotland David I] had conquered (he never got near Chester either).
In fact, the mistake appears to have arisen as a consequence of an error in Ormerod's history, where it is written:
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