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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

but then am in doubte what to make of hym a he saint a she sainte or a neuter for we haue all in oure Kallendar Of the male and female sayntes euery leafe thear showthe samples inowe And as for the neuter they or rather I wot vnmarked thē vnknowē as sainct Christmas s. Cādelmas sainct Easter Sainct Whitsontide swete sainct Sunday that cums ones a weke Touchynge my doubte nowe If the day beare name in the woorship memorie of hym whome the preacher Horace doth mēcion in his first booke of sermons by these wordes Pastillos Rufillus olet Satyr ii Phorcꝰ king of the Iles Corsica Sardinia had foure daughters Scylla Medusa Stenio Euriale called Gorgons of whome as Neptune had rauished Medusa Gorgon in the temple of Pallas This Goddes for displeasure of the fact chaūged al the heare of her hed into snakes and adders gaue her a further gyft that who so euer sawe her should be turned straighte into stone Perseus coueityng to kil this monster borowed of Mercurie his wyngs and faulchion and strooke of her hed as she slepte brought it with hym which Pallas dyd after set in her shelde it had the same pour still after as it had whyle she lyued Gorgonius hircum then may we be bold to beleue it was a he saīct but yet a very sloouen saynt belyke a nesty If this name were Kallendred of Medusa Gorgon that had the heare of her hed tourned into adders whome Perseus ouercame and kylde as doctour Ouide declares in his .iiii. booke of chaunges Gorgonis anguicomae Perseus superator then maye we be sure it was a she saynte But yf it wear in the honour of Pallas shelde whearin thys Medusa Gorgōs hed was grauē as Titus * Stroz. pr̄ Aeolo .iiii. Stroza a deuout doctour to but of later daies doth say Gorgonis anguicomae caelatos aegide vultus Pallas habet Then was it neyther a he nor a she but a playne neuter saynte And thus with the aunciente authoritie of mere poeticall scriptures my conscience is so confounded as I wot not in the worlde what saynte to make of hym ‡ Iacob de voragine Iames of the synkhole sauyng your reuerence a trier forsooth that wrote the Legendaurie telleth me a very preposterous order in good cookerie of one * Legend autea cap. cxxviii Gorgō his fellow Dorotheus that wear first sauced with vineger and salt and after the then broiled on a girdyrō But to be playn as it is best for a man to be with his frēdes he hath farced hys boke so full of lyes that it is quite out of credite in al honest cōpany And for my part I am half a shamed to say that I saw it but synce it is sayd sumwhat to tell you what that I sawe Thom. Cātuar ca. xi Lupus ca. cxxiii Petr. exorcist cap. lxxiiii Thaismere trix cap. cxlvii he makes me Thomas the traytour Lupus the Lechour Peter the knaue yf I may call a cōiurer so Thais the hoor all to be hye holye sainctes in heauē that with such prodigal impudēcie so shameles liyng as I may safely thinke he had eyther a Bul to make sainctes of diuels or els a placarde to play the knaue as he list But as for Gorgon be he as he be may yt makes no great matter for he shal haue my hart while he stōdes in the kallender he hath bene euer so lucky But what saynte so euer he bee he is sure no Scottes mans frend but a very angry sainte towarde them for vpon hys daye .xxxiiii. yere paste they had a greate ouerthrowe by vs at Floddom feld and their kyng Iamy the fourth slayn and thearfore is this day not smally markt among them To tell our aduentures that befell now vpon it I thinke it very mete that fyrste I aduertise how here as we lay our campe and theirs wear eyther within the sight viewe of oothers indistaūce as I gest a .ii. myle litle more a sunder we had the Fryth on the north this hil last remembred as I sayd on the south the west ende Whereof is called Fauxsyde Bray Fauxsyde Bray whereupon stādeth a sory castell and half a skore houses of lyke woorthines by yt And had westward before vs the liyng in campe A long this hill beinge aboute a mile from vs were they very bisy prankyng vp and doune all the motenyng and fayne would haue bene a counsayll with the doinges of our campe We agayne because their armie semed to sit to receyue vs dyd diligentely prepare that we might soon go to them and therefore kept our campe all that daye my lordes grace and the counsaill sittyng in cōsultacion the captains officers prouidyng their bandes store of vitaile furniture of weapon for furtheraunce whearof our vessels of municiō and vitailes wear here all redy come to the shore The Scottes continued their brauerie on the hill the whiche we not being so well able to beare made oute a band of light horsmē a troop of dimilaunces to back thē our men gat vp on the hill therby of euen ground with the enemye rode straight towarde them with good spede and order Whome at the first the Scottes did boldly countenaunce abyde but after when their perceyued that our men woulde nedes cum on thei began to pricke and would fayn haue begon ear they had tolde their erraund but our mē hasted so spedely after that euē straight thei wear at their elbowes and did so stoutly then bestur them that what in the onset at the first and after in the chase which lasted a .iii. mile wellny to as far as the furthest of their campe on the southsyde they had kylde of the Scottes within a iii. houres abooue the number of xiii C. takē the master of Hume the lord Humes sun and heyr .ii. prestes vi gentlemē whearof one I remēber by syr Iaques Granado and all vpon the hyest well me niest of the hill toward them within the full sight of their hole campe Of oure syde agayne one spanish hakbutter hurt and taken Sir Rafe Bullmer knyght Thomas Gower Marshal of Berwyke and Robart Crouch all Captains of seuerall bandes of our lighthorsmen and men of right good coorage approued seruice at this tyme distrest by their awne forwardnes not by the enemies force ¶ After this skirmish it was marueiled on their syde that we vsed so much crueltie douted on ours that wee had kylde so many Their marueyle was aunswered that they had pict the quarell first them selues shewed vs a presidente at paniarhough wher of late yeres wtout any mercie they slewe the lorde Euers a greate cumpenie with hym our dout was clered by the witnes of their oun selues who confessed that thear wear ii made out of their cāpe .xv. C horsmē for skirmish .v. C. foot men to lye

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.