with swoordes and so hurt vppon the weddyng fynger of hys righte hande also as it was counted for the fyrst parte of medecine too haue it quite cut awaye About the same time certein of the Scottes ran out hastely to the kynges Maiesties standerde of the horsmen the whiche syr Androwe Flammak bare and laiyng fast holde vpon the staf thearof cryed a kyng a kynge That if both his strength hys hart and hys horse had not ben good and hereto sumwhat ayded at this pinch by sir Raulph Coppinger a pencioner bothe he had bene slain and the standerd lost whiche the Scottes neuertheles hilde so fast that they brake and bare away the nether ende of the staff to the burrel intended so much to the gayne of the stāderd that syr Androw as hap was skaped home all safe and els without hurt At this bysines also was my lord Fitzwaters Captain of a number of dimilaunces vnhorste but soone mounted againe skaped yet in great daunger and hys horse al he wē Hereat further wear Cauarley the standard bearer of the men of armes and Clemēt Paston a pēcioner thrust eche of them into the leg with pykes and Don Philip a Spaniard in the knee diuers other mayned and hurt and many horses sore woūded besyde ¶ By this tyme had our forewarde accordingly gotten the full vaūtage of the hilles side and in respect of their march stood sydeling toward the enemie Who neuertheles wear not able in all partes to stonde full square in array by reason that at the West ende of theim vpon their right hand and toward the enemie thear was a square plot enclosed with turfe as their maner of fencynge in thoose partes is one corner whearof did let the square of the same arraye Our battaile in good order next theim but so as in continaunce of array the former parte thearof stood vpon the hilles syde the tayle vpon the playn And the rerewarde hoolly vppon the playn So that by the placing and countenaunce of oure armye in this wyse wee shewed ourselues in a maner to cumpas them in that they shoolde no way skape vs the whiche by our poure and number we wear as well able to doo as a spynners webbe to catche a swarme of bees Howebeit for hart and courage we ment too mete wyth them had they bene as many mo These vndiscrete gadlinges that so fondly brake array from the horsmen in the retyre as I sayde ran so hastely thrughe the orders and rankes of our forewarde as it stood that it did both ther disorder many feared many was great encouraging to the enemie My lorde Lieutenaūt who had the gyding of our forewarde right valiauntly had conducted the same to their stōdynge and thear did very nobly encourage comfort thē Bidding them plucke vp their hartes shew thēselfes mē for thear was no cause of fear asfor victorie it was in their oun handes if they did abyde by it he himself euen thear woold lyue and dye amōg them And surely as hys wurthines allwayes right well deserueth so was hys honour at that tyme accordingly furnished with wurthy Captains First syr Ihon Lutterel who had the leading of a .iii. C. of hys lordships mē that wear the formost of thys forewarde all with harneys weapon and in all pointes els so well trimmed for war that lyke as at that tyme I coulde well note my lordes great cost and honour for that their choyse and perfect appointment and furniture so did I then also cōsider syr Ihon Luttrels proowes and wisedom for their valiaunt conductiō and exact obseruaunce of order whom knowynge as I knowe for his witmanhod good qualitees aptnes to all gentle feates besyde I haue good cause to counte both a good Captaī a warfare in feld and a wurthy courtyar in peace at home I mean suche a one as Cōte Balthazar the Italian in his boke of Courtyar doth frame Then in the same forwarde Syr Morrice Dēnis another Captain who wysely first exhortyng his men to play the mē shewing thearby the assuraunce of victorie then to the entent they shoolde be sure he woold neuer shrīke from theim he did with no les wurship then valiaunce in the hottest of this bysines alight amōg them and put hys horse from hym But if I shoold as cause I confesse thear wear inough make here ony stay in hys commendacion thearfore or of the forwarde courage of Syr George Hawarde whoo bere the Kynges Maiesties standarde in the battaile or of the circumspect diligence of syr William Pykering and Syr Rychard Wingfeld Sargeaūtes of the band to the foreward or of the prōpt forwardnes of Syr Charles Brādō another Captain ther or of the peinful industrie of syr Iames Wilford Prouost Marshal who placed himselfe with the formost of thys forewarde or of the good order in march of syr Hugh Willoughby and William Dēnis esquyer captaīs both or of the present hart of Ihon Chaloner a Captain also in the battail or of honest respect of Edward Chāberlayn gētlemā harbynger of the armie who willingly as then came in order with the same foreward Or of right many other in both these battailes for I was not nie the rereward whose behauours wurthynes wear at the tyme notable in myne eye although I neither knue then al of thē I saw nor coold not since remēber of thē I knue I mought wel be in dout it shold be to much an intricaciō to the matter to great a tediousnes to the reder And therfore to say on The Scottes wear sūwhat disordred with their cūminge out about the slaughter of our men the which thei did so earnestly then entēd thei toke not one to mercie but more thei wear amased at this aduētorous hardy onset My lordes grace hauing before this for the causes aforesayde placed himselfe on thys Fauxsyde Bray and thearby quikly perceyuynge the great disorder of these stragling horsmen hemd them in frō further straiyng whom syr Rafe Uane soon after with great dexterite brought in good order and array agayn And thearwith the rest of our strengths by the pollecie of my lordes grace and diligence of euery Captain and officer bysyde wear so oportunely and aptly applyed in their feat that whear this repulse of the enemie retyre of vs was douted of many to turne to the daunger of our los the same was wrought and aduaunced accordynge as it was deuysed to our certeinte of gayn and victorie For first at this sloughe whear most of our horsmē had stond syr Peter Mewtus Captain of all the hakbutters a foot did very valiauntly conduct place a good number of hys men in a maner harde at the faces of the enemies Wherunto Syr Peter Gamboa a Spanyard Captain of a .ii. C. hakbutters on horsback did redily bring his mē also whoo with the hot cōtinuaūce of their shot on both partes did so stoutly stay the enemies that thei could not well cum forther forward then our
Euē as it is metest that hed to be highest that shoolde wel look about for the safegarde of all the other membres and partes of the body so did his grace first perfitly appointed in fayre harneys accompanied with no mo as I noted then with Syr Thomas Chaloner knight one of the Clerkes of the kynges Maiesties priuie coūsaill take hys way toward the heyth of the hyll to tary by the ordinaunce whearas he mought both best suruey vs al and succour with ayde whear most he sawe nede and also by hys presence be a defence to the thing that stood weakest in place and most in daūger the which thearby how much it did stede anon shall I shewe As hys grace was halt vp the hill my lord Leiutenaūt as it chaūced by hym he was ware the enemies were all at a sodeyn stay and stood still a good while The sighte and cause hereof was marueyllous too vs all but understādable of none my Lordes grace thought as in dede the most lykely was that the men had muche ouer shotte themselues and woolde fayne haue bene home again herewith sayd to this effect These men surely wil cum no further it wear mete to cast whear we shoolde campe for peyn of my lyfe they will neuer fight It had bene hardely I wot not howe bad but I am sure no good deuise for our pour to haue forsaken their groūde to assaile them whearthey stood so far from the hill that we had wellnie wunne so hardly and shoold kepe to so much aduaūtage And in warfare allways tymely prouision is counted great pollecie Hereto his grace was sure that wee wear able better and longer to kepe our hyll then they their playne Asfor fighting now it mought be more then likely to who that cōsidered it their courage was quite quayled thearfore had no will to cum ony further but woold haue bene glad to haue bene whence they cam Firste because at that time besyde the ful mouster of our foot men of whoome they thought we had had none thear but all to haue ben eyther shipt or a shipping then they sawe playne that we wear sure to haue the gain of the hil and they the ground of disaduauntage out of their holde put fro their hope And hereto for that their Herauld gaue my lordes grace no warning the whiche by him if they had mēt to fight it out whoo woold not haue presumed that for the estimacion of their honour they woold little stuck to haue sent and he againe and it had bene but for his thousande Crounes woold haue bene right glad to haue brought These be the cōsideracions that both then and since did persuade me my lordes grace had good cause too say thei woold not fight Howbeit hereunto if I wist disclosed but half as muche now as I am sure of circumspeccion his grace knue then I doo not dout but I were able sufficiētly to prooue he might well be no les certeyn of that he had sayd then ony man might bee of an vndoon dede the which neuertheles how true it was the proof of the matter soon after did declare which was that the Scottes ran quite their way wold neuer tary stroke with oure footmen whear the fight on bothe sydes shold haue bene shewed Notwithstondyng by thys tyme consyderyng bylyke the state they stood in that as they had left their strength to soon soo now to be to late to repent vpō a chaunge of countenaūce thei made hastely toward vs agaī I knowe not to sai truth whither more stoutly of courage or more strongely of order me thoughte then I mighte noote bothe in their marche But what after I lerned The maner of the Scottish order in Battaile specially touchyng their order their armour and their maner of fight aswell in goynge to offende as in standing to defende I haue thought necessarie here to vtter Hakbutters haue they few or none appoint theyr fight most commonly alwais a foot They cum to the felde wel furnished all with Iak and skull dagger buckler and swoordes all notably brode and thin of excedinge good temper vniuersally so made to slyce that as I neuer sawe none so good so think I it harde to deuyse the better hereto euery mā hys pyke a great kercher wrapped twyse or thrise about his neck not for colde but for cuttīg In their aray toward the ioining with the enemie they cling thrust so nere in the foreranke shoulder to shoulder together wyth their pykes in bothe handes strayght afore them and their followers in that order soo harde at their backes laiynge their pykes ouer theyr fooregoers shoulders that if they doo assaile vndisseuered no force can well withstond thē Standing at defēce they thrust shoulders lykewise so nie together the forerākes wel nie to kneling stoop lowe before for their fellowes behynde holdynge their pykes in both handes and thearwith in their left their bucklers the one ende of the pyke agaynste their right foot ▪ thother agaīst the enemie brest hye their followers crossing theyr pyke pointes with theim forewarde and thus each with other so nye as place space wil suffer thrugh the hole warde so thick that as easly shall a bare fynger perce thrugh the skyn of an angrie hedgehog as ony encoūter the frunt of their pykes My lord Marshall notwithstondynge whoom no daunger detracted from dooing his enterprise with the cumpanie and order afore appointed cam full in their faces from the hilles syde towarde them Herewith waxt it very hot on both sydes The countenaunce of warre with piteful cryes horrible rore and terrible thunderinge of gunnes besyde the day darkened abooue hed with smoke of shot the sight and apparaunce of the enemye euen at hand before the daūger of death on euery syde els the bullettes pellettes arrowes fliyng each whear so thik and so vncerteinly lightynge that no whear was thear ony suerty of safety euery man strooken with a dreadfull fear not soo muche perchaunce of death as of hurt which thinges though they wear but certeyn to sum yet douted of all assured crueltie at the enemies hādes without hope of mercy death to flye and daūger to fyght The hole face of the felde on bothe sydes vpō this point of ioining both to the eye and to the ear so heauy so deadly lamentable furious outragious terribly confuse so quite against the quiet nature of man as if to our nobilite the regard of their honor and fame to the knightes Capitaines the estimaciō of their wurship and honestie and generally to vs all the naturall motion of bounden duetie our oun safetie hope of victorie the fauour of God that we trusted we had for the equite of our quarel had not bene a more vēhemēt cause of courage then the daūger of death was cause of feare the very horrour of the thing had ben able to make ony mā to forget both prowes pollecie But my lord
mooued that rather to thinke so bycaus sum of their crosses wear so narrowe so singly set on that a puff of wynde might haue blowē thē frō their brestes that thei wear found right often talkīg with the Skottish prikkers wtin les then their gads length a sunder when thei perceiued thei had bene spied thei haue begun one to run at another but so apparauntly perlassent as the lookers on resembled their chasyng like the running at base in an vplondish toun whear the match is made for a quart of good ale or like the play in Robin Cooks skole whear bicaus the punics may lerne thei strike fewe strokes but by assent appointemēt I hard sum men say it did mooch augment their suspiciō that wey bicaus at the battail thei sawe these prikkers so badly demean them more intēding the takīg of prisoners then the suerty of victorie for while oother men fought they fell to their prey that as thear wear but few of them but brought home his prisoner so wear thear many that had .vi. or .vii. Many men yet I must cōfes ar not disposed all weys to say all of the best but more redy haply to fynde oothers mēs fautes then to amend their oun Howbeit I thīke sure as for our prikkers yf their fautes had bene fewer their infamye had bene les yet say I not this so moch to disprais them as for mean of amēdement Their Captains and gentlemen again ar men for the most part al of right honest seruice and approoued prowes such sure as for their well dooing woold soon becum famous yf their souldiours wear as toward as thēselues be forward As thyngs fell after in communicacion one question amōg oother arose who kyld the first man this day in felde the glorie whearof one Ieronimo an Italian woold fayn haue had howbeit it was after well tryed that it was one Cuthbert Musgraue a gentlemā of my lord of War wykes who right hardely kyld a Gūner at his pece in the Scottes foreward ear euer they begon ony whit to turne the fact for the forwardnes well deseruyng remembraūce I thought it not mete to be let slip in silence This nyght the Skottish goouernor when he thought ones him self in sum safetie with all spede caused the erle Bothwel to be let out of prisō which whither he did for the doubt he had that we woold haue releaced him wild he nild he or whither he woold shew hīself fayn to doo sumwhat before the peple to make sum amendes of his former faut I doo not knowe but this sure rather for sū caus of fear then for ony good will whiche was well apparaunt to all men in that he had kept the erle so long before in hold with out ony iust caus Sonday the xi of september ¶ In the morenyng a great sort of vs rode to the place of onset whear our mē lay slayn and what by gentlemē for their frēdes and seruaūtes for their Masters al of thē that wear knowē to be ours wear buried In the mean time the Master officers of the ordinaūce did very diligētly get to gyther all the Skottish ordinaūce which bycaus it lay in sundry places thei could not inne all ouer night And these wear in nūber a xxx peces whearof one culuerine .iii. sacres ix smaller peces of bras of iron 17. peces mo moūted on cariage These thinges thus done sūwhat a fore none our cāpe reysed we marched alōg the Fryth syde straight toward Lyeth approchīg me the same about iii. of the clok in thafter none we pyght our fyeld a prikshot on thissyde the toun being on the southest half sumwhat shadowed frō Edinborowe by a hill but the most of it liyng wtin the ful sight shot of the castell thear in distaunce sumwhat abooue a quarter of a mile My lordes grace garded but with a small cūpeny was cūmē to Lyeth well nie half an hour before the armie the whiche he found all desolate of resistaūce or ony body els Thear wear in the hauen that runneth into the mids of the roun vessels of diuers sortes a xiii Sumwhat of ode wynes wainskot and salt wear found in the toun but as but litle of that so nothīg els of value for how much of oother things as could wel be caried the inhabitauntes ouernight had pact awei with them My lord Marshall and most of our horsmen wear bestowed lodged in the toun my lordes grace my lord Lietenaunt the rest of th armie in the campe Monday the xii of september ¶ This day my lordes grace with the counsell and sir Rychard Lee rode about that toun to the plottes and hilloks on eyther syde nie to it to viewe consider whither the same by byldyng might be made tenable and defensible ¶ Certayne of our smaller vessels burnt Kynkorne and a toun or twoo mo stondyng on the northe shore of the Frith against Lyeth Tuysday the xiii of september In the after noon my lords grace rowed vp the Fryth a .vi. or .vii. myles westward as it runneth into the land and took in his way an Iland thear called sainct Coomes Ins which stōdeth a .iiii. mile beyōd Lieth and a good wey nerar the north shore then the south yet not wtin a mile of the nerest It is but half a myle about and hath in it a prety Abbey but the moōks wear gone fresh water inough and also coonyes and is so naturally strong as but by one way it can be entred The plot whear of my lordes grace consideryng did quikly cast to haue it kept whearby al traffik of marchaūdise all cōmodities els commyng by the Fryth into their land vtterly the hole vse of the Fryth it self with all the hauens vppon it shoold quyte be taken from them Wednesday the .xiiii. of september ¶ This day my lords grace tidyng bak again Estward to vyew diuers things and places tooke Dakyth in his way whear a howse of George Douglasses dooth stande and commyng sumwhat nere it he sent Soomerset his herald with a trompet before to knowe whoo kept it and whether the kepers holde it or yelde it to his grace Aunswere was made that thear was a .lx. parsons within whoom their maister liyng thear the saterday at night after the batell dyd will that they the hous and all that was in yt shoolde be at my lordes graces commaundement and pleasure Whear vppon the chefest came out and in the name of all the rest humbled hymself vnto my Lords will proferynge his grace in his Masters name diuers fayr goshaukes the whiche my Lords grace how nobly soeuer he listed to shew mercy vpō submissiō yet vttering a more maiestie of honor then to base his generositie to the reward of his enemie did but not cōtemptuosly refuse and so without cūmyng in past by and rode to the place whear the battell was begun to be strooken the whiche hauyng a
Contrary too Christes whose burthen is light yoke easly and the peynfull wringing of so vneasie a yok The Bohems Germaīs of later yeres haue quite reiect and cast him vp Mat. xi And we at last not so much led by thēsamples of others well doings as mooued by the mere mercie and grace of almightie God Psal. cxlv who as by Dauid he hath promised is euer at hand and nye to all them that call vpon him in truth and alwayes redy too doo that he cam for Mat. xviii that is too saue that was forlorne thrugh the ayde and goodnes of hys mightie pour and eterne wysedom strengthning hys worthy champion our late soueraigne lorde and custructinge his circūspect counsail haue we most happely exterminate banisht hym our bounds Whearby as we haue now the grace to knowe and serue but one God so are we subiect but to one kynge he naturally knoweth his owne people we obediently knowe hym our onely soueraigne hys highnes estate brought and reduced from perticion in maner subiecciō vnto the old princely entyer and absolute pour again and ours redemed from the doubt to whome we should obey The greate polling intollerable taxes of our moony yerely both from his Maiestie and vs now saued clere within his Realme Not fayne now to fetch Iustice so iniustly ministred as he the byds moste like Caleys market what soeuer be the cause shal be sure of the sentence that so far from home with so greate cost of money daūger of life Our consciēces now quite vnclogd frō the fear of his vaine terriculamēts and rattelbladders and frō the fondnes of his trimtrās gugaws his interdictions his cursings hys damynng to the deuyll his pardons his soilyngs hys pluckīg out of purgatorie his supersticious sorts of sectes of religion his canonisacion of sainctes forbidding licēcing the eating of meate syngyng saiyng wot not a woord rouynge a procession gadding a pilgrimage worshipīg of idols Oblaciōs offerings Saint Uncūber Saint Mudwyn Saint Agnes Saint Syth of otes images of wax boud pēs pis for deliueraūce of bad husbāds for a sick kowe to kepe doune the belly and when kyt hadde lost her key setting vp candels too saincts in euery corner knak kynge of beadstones in euery pewe tollyng of belles against tempestes Scala coeli Masses Pardon Beades Tanthonie belles Tauthrie laces Rosaries Collets charmes for euery diseas and Suffrain suffrages for euery sore with a thousande tois els of his deuelish deuises that lak of oportunitie doth let me here to tell We are now no more by thē so wikkedly seduced to the great offence of Gods dignitee vtter parell of our soules Nowe haue we by hys diuine pour wounde our selues out of the daunger of his iust indignaciō that we woorthely wear in for our former obstinacie and turnyng from his truth and haue receiued with most humble thākes gyuing hys holly woord whearof we haue the free vse in our owne tung These goodly benefites or rather Gods blessings if ye wil your selues shal we with Gods assistence bring you to enioi aswel as our selfs But if ye will not but still bee stubborne in your vngodlines refuse hys graces that he daily offereth wilfully wrye soo far from hys truth and be vtterly obstinate in vpholding the Antichrist Daniel xi As first Daniel the prophet dooth declare what ye ar and show you the state ye stād in by these woordes Thei shal magnifie hī as many as haue drunke of the wyne of the wrath of God and whose names are not written in the boke of life Euen so thinke ye hardely that the iust iudgemēt which the hed Priestes and seniours the Iues in aūswering Christ vnwares to them selues dyd geue of thēselues vnto your cōfusion shal be verefied vpō you Mat. xxi which is without mercie shall the Lord vndoo the euill and set out his vyneyard to oother good husbandes that wil yeld him frute in due times And the soon after him self sayd to thē thearfore the kingdome of God shal be takē frō you Eod. capit be geuen to the naciō that will do proffit And hereto that sharpe sentence of s. Poul too be pronoūced specially agaist you i. Tes. ii ▪ The lord Iesu with Thaūgels of his blis shal cum from heauē in a flame of fyer taking vēgeaūce vpō all thē that wil not know God obey the Gospel of him our lord Iesu Christ they shal be punisht by deathe for euer frō the glorie of his vertue when he shal cū to be glorified amōg his holy be woonderful in the eyes of all that beleue Aswel neuertheles that ye may be deliuered frō the dreadful daūger of this most terrible sentēce as also that the lord of his vnmeasurable mercie will ones vouchsafe to opē your eyes waken you out of this drousy Endimiōs dreā Endymion ▪ be looued of the Moon was layd by her in to a cōtinuall slepe in a dēne of mount Latmus in Caria whear she kyst hym or rather this mortal * A diseas cūming of burnt choler cumpelling the paciēt to coueit nought but drousie slepe too forget all thīg and to be as it wear in a traunce Lethargie whearin by the bytyng of this most venemous †Bittē with this serpēt as cast in a deadly slumber with a stifelinge benūuminge of al partes and with a yore do soon dye Aspis the Pope I say ye do lamētably lye a slūber beīg benūmed of al the lims of your soul and lacking the vse of all your spirituall sensis Cic. i. tue quest howe euer of grace ye shal be mooued to do we shall of charitie most hartely pray for we do not so much remember our quarel forget our profession but that we can wish rather your amendemēt then your destruccion And hereto that one 's also ye maye see the miserable subiecciō Cçlius lib. xiii whearunto ye are thral and haue the grace to praye for grace to the lorde that ye may be quited of that captiuite and be made apt to receyue the truthe and hys holy woord and then to know whoo be your frendes whyther we will you well Wyth whoome by soo many meanes sith God of good will hathe so nie ioyned you seme not you of frowardnes to seauer a sunder agaynst the thyng that should be a generall wealth and cōmō concorde the prouisiō of nature and ordinaunce of God and against his holy woord which not al vnaptly perchaūce here may be cited Mat. xix ▪ Quos Deus coniunxit homo ne separet The great mischeues rising by this disunion and seauering and the manifold commoditees cummyng by the contrarie beynge shortly by you had in consideraunce thys mariage I doubt not betwene our Prices shal be cōsummate al causes of quarel ceast atonement betwene vs made and affirme aliaunce of frendshippe for euer cōcluded The which
the mortalite was so great as it was thought the lyke afore time not to haue bene sene Indede it was the better maynteyned with theyr oun swoordes that lay each whear skattred by the waye whearof our men as they had broke one stil tooke vp another thear was store inough and they layd it on freely that righte many among theim at thys bysynes brake thre or foure ear they returned homeward to the armye I may well perchaunce confes that herein we vsed sum sharpnes although not asmuche as we mought and little curtesie and yet I can safely avowe all doon by vs as rather by sundry respectes dryuen and compeld then eyther of crueltie or of delight in slaughter And lyke sumwaye to the diligent Master that sharpely sumtime when warnynge will not serue dooth beat hys scholler not hardely for hate of the chylde or hys oune delyghte in beatynge but for looue he woolde haue hym amende hys fautes or negligence and beates hym ones surely because he woolde nede to beat hym no more One cause of the correction we vsed I maye well count to be their tyrannous vowe they made which we certeinly hard or that whensoeuer they fought and ouercam they woolde liea so many and spare so fewe a sure proof wherof thei plainly had shewed at our onset before whear they kylde all and saued not a man Another respecte was to reuenge their great and cruel tyranny shewed at Panyar hough as I haue before sayde whear they slewe the Lorde Euers whome otherwyse they mought haue taken prisoner and saued and cruelly kylde as many els of oure men as came into theyr handes We wear forced yet hereto by a further very earnest regarde whiche was the dout of assemble of their armie again whearof a cantell for the number had bene able to compare with our hole hoste when it was at the greatest and so perchaunce we shoulde haue bene driuen with dooble labour to beat thē again and make two woorkes of one whearas we well remēbred that a thynge ones well doon is twyse doon To these anoother and not the meanest matter was The name of lorde ▪ the Scottes take in lyke signification of speche as we do But a larde with theim I take it is as a squyer wyth vs A lound is a name of reproch as a villain or suche lyke their armour among theim so little differing and their apparail so base and beggerly whearin the Lurdein was in a maner all one wyth the Lorde and the Lounde wyth the Larde all clad a lyke in iackes coouerd wyth whyte with whyte leather dooblettes of the same or of fustian and most commonly al white hosen Not one with either cheine broochryng or garment of silke that I coold see onles cheynes of latten drawen four or fyue tymes along the thighs of their hosen and dooblet sleues for cuttyng and of the sort I sawe many This vilenes of port was the caus that so many of their great men and gentlemen wear kyld so fewe saued The outwarde sheaw the semblaunce sign whearby a starūger might discern a villain from a gentleman was not amoong them to be seen As for woordes goodly proffer of great raundsums wear as commō and ryfe in the mouths of the tone as in the toother And thearfore hereby it cam to pas that after at the examinacion and countyng of the prisoners we sound taken aboue twenty of their villayns to one of their gentlemen whoō no man nede to dout we had rather haue spared then the villayns yf we coold haue knowen ony difference betwene thē in takyng And yet notwithstonding all these our iust causes and quarels to kyll them we shewed more grace tooke mo to mercy then the case on our syde for the causes aforesayd did well deserue or require for bysyde the Erle Huntley who in good harneys appointed lykest a gentleman of ony of them that I coold hereof or see but coold not then eskape bicaus he lact his horse and thearfore hapt to be taken by Sir Rafe Uane and bysyde the Lorde of Yester Hobby Hambleton Captayn of Dunbar The Master of Sāpoole The Larde of Wimmes taken by Iohn Bren. A broother of the erle of Cassils And bysyde one Moutrell taken by Cornelius Cōtroller of the ordinaunce in this armie And bisyde one of the Camals an Irish gentlemā takē by Edward Chamberlain bysyde many oother Skottish gētlemē mo A kynsmā bylyke of the erle or Arguiles whoo 's proper sur name is Lamall lyke as the erle of Anguishes is Douglas the erle Huntleys Gordon A Scottish heraulde was also takē but here not placed bicaus my lordes grace caused hī foorth with free y to be releaced home wtout raūdsō or los whoo 's names takers I wel remēber not The prisoners accōted by the Marshals book wear numbred to abooue xv Touching the slaughter sure we kyld nothynge so many as if we had mynded crueltie so much for the tyme and oportunitee right well we mought for my lords grace of his woonted mercy mooch mooued with the pitee of this sight and rather glad of victorie then desyrous of crueltie soon after by ges v. of the clok stayed his standerd of his horsmen at the furthest part of their campe westward and caused the trumpettes to blowe a retreat Whearat also sir Rafe sadleyr treasurer whoo 's great diligēce at that time and redy forwardenes in the chefest of the fray before did woorthely merit no small commendacion caused al the footmen to stay and then with much trauaile and great peyn made them to be brought in sū order agayn It was a thyng yet not easly to be doon by reason they all as then sumwhat bisyly applied their market the spoile of this Scottish campe Whearin wear foūd good prouision of whyte bread ale oten-cakes otemeal mutton butter in pottes chese in diuers tentes good wyne also good store to say truth of good vitaile for the maner of their cuntree And in sum tentes amoong them as I hard say wear also founde of siluer plate a dish or ii ii or .iii. goblettes and .iii. or .iiii. chalices the whiche the fynders I know not with what reuerence but with sum deuotion hardely pluct out of the colde clouts thrust into their warme boosōs Here now to say sumwhat of the maner of their campe As they had no pauilions or roūd houses of ony cōmendable cumpas so wear thear fewe oother tentes with postes as the vsed maner of makyng is And of these fewe also none of abooue .xx. foot lēgth but most far vnder for the most part all very sumptuously beset after their faciō for the looue of Fraunce with fleur de lices sum of blue buckeram sum of black and sum of sum oother colours These whyte ridges as I calld them that as we stood on Fauxsyde Bray dyd make so great mouster toward vs which I dyd take then to be a number of tentes when we
cam we found it a lynnen draperie of the coorser cameryk in dede for it was all of canuas sheets and wear the tenticles or rather cabayns and couches of theyr souldiours the which much after the common byldyng of their cuntree besyde had they framed of iiii sticks about an elle long a pece whearof .ii. fastened toogyther at one ende a loft and the .ii. endes beneath stict in the ground an elle a sunder standing in facion lyke the bowe of a soowes yoke Ouer .ii. such bowes one as it wear at their hed thoother at their feet thei stretched a shete doun on both sides whearby their cabain becam roofed lyke a ridge But skant shit at both endes not very close beneath on the sydes onles their stiks wear the shorter or their wiues the more liberal to lend them larger naperie Howbeit wtin they had lyned them and stuft them so thick with strawe that the weather as it was not very cold when they wear ones couched thei wear as warme as thei had bene wrapt in horsdung This the plot of their campe was called EdminstoÌ„ edge nie Gilberton a place of the Lorde of Brimstons halfe a mile beyond Muskelboorowe and a iiii mile on this syde Edenborowe and occupied in largenes with diuers tentes and tenticles that stood in sundry partes out of square about a miles cumpas whearin as our meÌ„ vpon the sound of retreat at their retire wear sumwhat assembled we all with a loud and entyer outcrie and hallowyng in sign of gladnes and victorie made an vniuersall noys and shout whearof the shrilnes as after we hard was hard vntil Edinboorowe It was a woonder to see but that as they say many handes make lyght woork how soon the dead bodyes wear stryped out of their garments starke naked euen from as far as the chase went vntill the place of our onset whearby the parsonages of the enemies might by the wey easly be viewed and considered that which for their tallnes of stature cleanes of skyn bignes of bone with due proportion in al partes I for my part aduisedly noted to be such as but that I well sawe that it was so I woolde not haue beleued sure so many of that sort to haue bene in all their cuÌ„tree Amoong them lay thear many prestes and kirkmen as thei call them of whoom it was bruted amoong vs that thear was a hole band of a .iii. or .iiii. M. but we wear after enfourmed it was not altogyther so At the place of the chardge at the first by vs gyuen thear found we our horses slayn all gored and heaweÌ„ and our men so rufully gasht and mangled in the hed spetially as not one by the face coold be knowen who he was Litle Preston was found thear with both his handes cut of by the wreasts and knowen to be he for that it was knowen he had of each arme a bracelet of golde for the which they so chopt hym Edward Shelley alas that woorthy gentleman and valiaunt Captain all piteefully disfigured and mangled amoong them lay and but by his bearde nothing discernable Of whoom bysyde the propernes of parson for his wit his good qualitees his actiuitee in feates of war and his perfet honestie for the whiche with all men of all estates he was alwey so much estemed so welbelooued hereto for that he was so nere my frende I had caus inough here without parsimonie to prays his lyfe lament his death wear it not that thesame shoolde be to great a digression and to muche interrupcion of the matter As their fel sodeinly in RooÌ„ a great dungeoÌ„ swallowig of grouÌ„d Curtiê° a Romane gentlemaÌ„ for that pleasyng of the goddes that the same might ceas mouÌ„ted on his horse and lept doun into the same which straight then after closed by agayne Vale. Max. li. vi ca. vi Decius Mus Publiê° Decius his sun Consule of Room as thei shoold fight the Father against the I atines the sun after that agaiÌ„st the SaÌ„nites wear warned by dream that those armies shoolde haue the victorie whoo 's Captains wear first slayn in felde thei both ran willingly in to the hostes of their enemies they wear slayn theyr armies wan the felde Plutarch de Decio prÌ„e paral xxxvii Et Liui. de P. Decio li. x dec i. But touching the maner of his death I thinke his merit to mooch to be let pas in silence who not inferiour in fortitude of mynde eyther vnto the Romane Curtius or the .ii. Decii he being in this busines formost of all our men against the enemies Consyderyng with hymself that as his hardy charge vpon them was sure to be their terrour and very lykely to turne to the breach of their order and herewith also that the same shoulde be greate coorage to his followers that cam to gyue the charge with hym And ponderynge agayn that his turnynge bak at thys point shoulde caus the contrarye and be great daunger of our confusion was content in his kyngs and contrees quarell in hope the rather to leaue victorie vnto his cuntremen thus honorably to take death to hym selfe Whoom let no man thynke no foolysh hardines or werynes of lyfe draue vnto so harde an enterprise whoo 's sober valiaunce of coorage had often ootherwyse in the late warres with Fraunce bene sufficiently before approued and whoo 's state of lyuing my selfe I knue to be such as lact nothing the might pertein to perfit worldly wealth I trust it shall not be taken that I mean hearby to derogate fame from ony of the rest that dyed thear GOD haue their solles who I wot bought the bargain as deere as he but only to doo that in me may lye to make his name famous Whoo amoong these in my opinion towarde his prince and cuntree did best deserue Nye this place of onset whear the Scottes at their ruÌ„nynge awey had let fall their weapons as I sayd Thear found we bysyde their common maner of armour certeyn nice instrumentes for war as we thought And they wear nue boordes endes cut of being about a foot in breadth and half a yarde in leangth hauyng on the insyde handels made very cunnyngly of .ii. cordes endes These a Gods name wear their targettes again the shot of our small artillerie for they wear not able to hold out a canon And with these found we great rattels swellyng bygger then the belly of a pottell pot coouered with old parchement or dooble papers small stones put in them to make noys and set vpon the ende of a staff of more then twoo els long and this was their fyne deuyse to fray our horses when our horsmen shoulde cum at them Howbeeit bycaus the ryders wear no babyes nor their horses no colts they coold neyther duddle the tone nor fray the toother so that this pollecye was as witles as their powr forceles Amoong these weapons and bysyde diuers oother banners standerds and penons a banner of whyte