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A09164	The expedicion into Scotla[n]de of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward, Duke of Soomerset, vncle vnto our most noble souereign lord ye ki[n]ges Maiestie Edvvard the. VI. goouernour of hys hyghnes persone, and protectour of hys graces realmes, dominions [and] subiectes made in the first yere of his Maiesties most prosperous reign, and set out by way of diarie, by W. Patten Londoner.	Patten, William, fl. 1548-1580.	1548 (1548)	STC 19476.5; ESTC S114184	77,214	314

september ¶ This mornyng my lords grace hauyng deputed my lord Gray to receyue the rendryng of the castell and Sir Edward Dudley after to be captayn of the same They both departed to yt at the time set Androwe Hume and .iiii. oother of the chefest thear with hym cam out yeldyng the castell deliuered my lord the keis His lordship causyng the residue also to cumme out then sauyng .vi. or .vii. to kepe their baggage wtin who all wear in number .lxxviii entred the same with master Dudley and diuers oother gentlemē with him He found thear indifferent good store of vytayle wyne and of ordinaunce twoo basterd culuerins one sacre .iii. fawconets of bras and of iren viii peces beside The castell stondeth vppon a rocky crag with a prowd heith ouer all the contrie about it on euery syde well me fenced by marrysh allmost rounde in foorme with thik walls ▪ which is a rare thing vpō so hie and stonie a groūd A faire well within yt The kepyng of this castell my lord betakyng vnto master Dudley accordyngly retourned to my lordes grace at the campe We reised Friday the xxiii of september and cam that mornyng to Rokesborow and iii. myle from Hume our camp occupied a greate fallowe felde betwene Rokesborowe and Kelseye stondyng eastward a quarter of a myle of a prety market toun to but they wear all goon foorth thear My Lordes grace wyth dyuers of the Counsell and Sir Richard lee knight whose chardge in this expedycyon spetially was to appoynt the pioners ech whear in woork as he shoolde thynke meete and then whear my lordes grace assigned to deuyse the fourme of byldyng for fortificacion whoom suerly the goodnes of his wytt and hys greate experience hath made in that science right excellent went straight to Rokesborowe to caste what thear for strengthnyng might be doon The plot and syte whearof hath bene in tyme paste a Castell Rokesborow and standeth naturally very strong vpon a hyll east and west of an eyght skore in length and .iii. skore in bredth drawynge to narownes at the easte ende the hole grounde whearof the old walles doo yet enuyron Besyde the heyth and hardines to cum to it is strōgly fenced on eythter syde with the course of ii great riuers Tiuet on the north and Twede on the sowth both which ioyning sum what nie to gyther at the west ende of it Tyuet by a large cumpas a bowte the feldes wee laye in at Kelsey dooth fall into this Twede which with greate deapth swiftnes runneth from thence eastward into the sea at Berwyk and is notable and famous for .ii. commodities specially Salmons and whetstones Ouer this betwyxte kelsey and Rokesborowe hath thear bene a great stone bridge with arches the which the Skottes in time paste haue all to broken bycaus we shoold not that wei cum to them Soō after my Lords graces survey of the plot and determinacion to doo asmuch indeede for makynge it defensyble as shortnes of the tyme and season of the yere could suffer which was that one great trench of twenty foot brode with deapth accordyng and a wall of lyke breadth and heyth shoold be made a cros with in the castel from the tone side-wall to thoother and a .xl. foot from the west ende and that a like trēch and wall shoold likewise be cast a trauers within about a quoyts cast frō theast ende and hereto that the castell walles on either syde whear neede was shoolde be mended with turfe and made with loop-holes as well for shooting directly foorthward as for flankyng at hand the woork of which deuise did make that bisyde the sauegard of these trenches walles the kepers shoold also be much fenced by both the ende walles of the castel the pioners wear set a woork and diligently applied in the same ¶ This day the Lard of Cesfoorth and many oother lards and gentlemen of Tyuetdale and their marches thear hauyng cum and communed with my Lordes grace made vs an assuraunce which was a frendship and as it wear a truis for that daye till the next day at nyght ¶ This daye in the meane while theyr assuraunce lasted these Lardes and gentlemen aforesayde beyng the Chefeste in the hole marches and Tyuetdale cam in agayn whoom my Lords grace with wysdom and pollecie without any fightynge or bloodshed dyd wyn then vnto the obedience of the kyngs maiestie for the whyche they dyd wyllyngly then also receyue an oth whose names ensue Lards The lard of Ceffoorth The lard of Fernyherst The lard of Grenehed The lard of Hunthill The lard of Hundley The lard of Markestone by mersyde The lard of Bouniedworth The lard of Ormeston The lard of Mallestaynes The lard of Warmesey The lard of Lynton The lard of Egerston The lard of Marton The lard of Mowe The lard of Ryddell The lard of Reamersyde Gentlemen George Trombull Iohn Hollyburton Robert Car. Robert Car of Greyden Adam Kyrton Andrew Meyther Saunder Spuruose of Erleston Mark Car of Litleden George Car of Faldenside Alexander Makdowell Charles Rotherford Thomas Car of the yere Ihon Car of Meynthorn Walter Holy burton Richard Hanganfyde Andrew Car. Iames Douglas of Eauers Iames Car of Mersyngtō George Hoppringl●● William Ormeston of Endmerden Ihon Grymslowe Many wear thear mo besyde whose names also for that they remayne in regester with these I haue thought the lesse mister here to wryt My lords grace did tender so mooch the furtheraūce of the work in the castell that this daie as euery day els duryng our campynge thear his grace dyd not styk to digge with a spade abooue .ii. houres him self Curti. lib. viii whearby as his estate sure was no more embased then the maiestie of great Alexāder what time with his oun hādes he set the poor colde soldiour in his oun chaire of estate ▪ to releeue hym by his tier So by the example herof was euery man so mooued as thear wear but fewe of Lordes knightes and gentlemen in the feld but with spade shoouell or mattook did thearin right willyngly vncompeld their partes Sunday the xxv of september ¶ This daye began the Skottes to brynge vitayll to our campe for the whiche they wear so well entreated and paide that durynge the tyme we laye thear we wanted none of the commodities their cōtry coold minister Munday the xxvi of september ¶ No notable thyng but the continuaunce of our woork at the Castell for furtheraunce whearof order was taken that the Captayns of footmen eche after oother shoolde send vp his C. of souldiours thither to woorke an houres space ¶ The larde of Coldehamknowes not hauyng so fully kepte hys appoyntment made at Hume Castell touchyng his cummynge agayn to my Lordes grace Tuisday the xxvii of september at Rokesborowe Sir Raufe Uane with a twoo or .iii. C. horses about .iii. of the clock in this mornyng was sent for hym to his house whiche was a .vii.