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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 that thei may sarue for sumeas of vnderstandynge But since the skantnes of roome wil not suffer me plainly at lēgth to write thear euery places name but thearfore am fayin in stede of a name to set vp a letter The Reder must be cōtēt to learne his A.B.C. again such as I haue thear deuised for the expoundyng of the same viewes Thei that list to learne I trust in this point will not much stik with me considerynge also that Ignoratis Terminis Aristot. ignoratur ars Yf thei know not my A.B. C. they cannot well knowe my matter lyke as he that knowes not Raymūdes Alphabete shal neuer cum to the composicion of his quintessēce In practica testi sui ca. ii what he shal doo though sum practicioners doo dout And mīding to interrupt the proces of the battaile the followeth with as fewe mean matters as I maye I haue thought good this hereto haue before written ¶ This day morenyng sumwhat before .viii. of the clok Saturday the x. of septēber being the daye of the battaile our campe dislodged and our hoste marched straight toward the church of Undreske aswell for entent to haue camped nie the same as for placyng our ordenaunce oother consideraciōs afore remēbred The Scottes I knowe not whither more for fear of our departynge or hope of our spoylynge wear out of their campe cummyng toward vs passed the Ryuer gathered in array and wellny at thys church ear we wear halfe wey to it They had quite disapointed our purpose and this at the first was so straunge in our eys that we coold not deuyse what to make of their meaning And so much the straunger as it was quite bysyde our expectacion or dout that they woold euer forsake their strength to mete vs in felde But we after vnderstood that they dyd not onely thus purpose to doo but also to haue assayled vs in our campe as we lay yf we had not bene sturryng the tymelyer And to th entent at this tyme that aswell none of their souldiours shoolde lurke behinde them in their campes as also that none of their Captayns shoold be able to flee from their enterprise they had first caused all their tentes to be let flat doū to the ground ear thei cam out then al that had horses aswel nobles as oother fewe except that were not horsmen appointed to leaue their horses behinde them march on with theyr souldiours afoot We cam on spedily a both sydes neither as thento ony whit ware of others entent but the Scots indede with a rounder pace Betwent the ii Hillockes betwixt vs and the church thei moustred sumwhat brim in our eyes at whoom as they stayed thear a while our galley shot of and slewe the Master of Greym with a fiue twenty nere by him and thearwith so skarred the .iiii. thousand Irish archers brought by the erle of Arguile that whear as it was sayd they shoulde haue bene a wyng to the forewarde thei coold neuer after be made to cum forwarde Hereupon dyd their armie hastely remooue from thence declyning southwarde took their direct wey towarde Fauxsyde Bray Of this sir Rafe Uane Lieutenaunt of all our horsmen as I thinke of al mē he first did note it quickly aduertised my lord whoo 's grace thearby did redily conceiue much of their meaning which was to wyn of vs the hill thearby the wynde and the sun yf it had shyned as it did not for the weather was cloudy lowrīg The gain of which iii. thynges whyther party in fight of battaile can hap to obtein hath his force doubled against his enemie In all this enterprise thei vsed for hafte so lytle the help of horse that they pluct foorth their ordinaūce by draught of men whiche at this tyme begā freely to shoot of toward vs whearby we wear further warned they mēt more thē a skirmish Here with began euery man to be smittē with the care of his office chardge thearupō accordyngly to applie him about it Hearwith began still ridyng too fro herewith a generall rumor buzzing amoōg the souldiours not vnlyke the nois of the sea beyng harde a far of herewith my lordes grace the coūsel on horsbak as thei wear fell straight in consultacion The sharpnes of whoo 's circūspect wysedomes as it quyckly spyed out the enemies entntes so did it amoong other thinges prōptly prouide thearin to preuent them as nedefull it was for the tyme askt no leasure Their deuise was this that my lorde Gray with his bande of Bulleners with my lord Protectours bāde my Lord Lieutenauntes al to the number of an xviii C. horsmē on the east half sir Ra●e Uane with sir Thomas Darey captain of the pencioners men of armes my lord Fitzwaters with his bāde of dimilaūces all to the nūber also of a .xvi. C. to be redy euē with my lorde Marshal on the west half thus all these toogether afore to encoūter the enemies a frūt whearby either to break their array that wey weakē their powr by disorder or at the lest to stop them of their gate force them to stay while our forewarde might hoolly haue the hilles syde our battaile and Rerewarde be placed in groundes next that in order and best for aduauntage And after this then that the same our horsmen shoolde retyre vp the hilles syde to cum doun in order a fresh and infest them on both their sydes whiles our battayles should occupie them in fight a frunt The pollecie of this deuise for the state of the case as it was to al that knue of it generally allowed to be the best the coold be euen so also takē to be of no small daūger for my lord Marshall sir Rafe Uane oother the assaylers the which neuertheles I knowe not whither more nobly and wisely deuised of the counsell or more valiaūtly and willingly executed of them for euen thear with good coorage takyng theyr leaues of the counsel my lord Marshal requyrīg onely that yf it went not well with him my lordes grace would be good to his wyfe and chyldrē he said he would mete these Scottes and so with their bandes these Captayns took theyr wey towarde the enemie By this wear our forewarde and theyrs within a .ii. flightshot a sunder The Scottes hasted with so fast a pace that it was thought of the most parte of vs they wear rather horsmen then footmen Our men again wear led the more with spede The Master of the ordinaunce to our great aduaūtage pluct vp the hill then certeyn peces and soon after planted .ii. or .iii canons of them well nie vpon the top thear whearby hauing so much the helpe of the hill he might ouer oure mens heddes shoot nyest at the enemie As my lordes grace had so circūspectly takē order for the array and station of the armie for thexecuciō of euery mās office beside

archers that marched in array on the right hande of oure footmen next to the ennemie prict them sharply with arrowes as they stoode Thearwith the Thys thyrde Table sheweth the cummyng into array of oure horsmen vpon the hil agayn the placinge of the Hakbutters against the enemie the shotyng of our archers and then the cummyng doune of our horsmen after about the chase and slaughter of the enemie M. Signifie the pykes and weepons let N. fall by the Scottes in the place they O. stode in As for the oother characters notes I referr the reder agayne to the first Table Master of the ordinaunce to their great anoyaunce did gall them with hailshot other out of the great ordinaūce directly from the hil top and certeyn other gunners with their peces a flanke from our Rerewarde most of our artillerie missiue engins then holy thus at ones with great puissance vehemēcie occupied about thē Herewith the full sight of our footmen all shadowed from theim before by oure horsmen dust reysed whoom then they wear ware in such order to be so nere vpō them And to this the perfet array of our horsmen again cummīg cooragiously to set on them afresh Miserable mē perceyuyng themselues then al to late howe muche to much they weare misenformed began sodeinly to shrinke Their gouernour that brought thē firste to the bargain lyke a doughty Capitain took hastely hys horse that he might run foremost away Indede it stood sumwhat with reason that he should make first homewarde that fyrste made outwarde but as sum of them sayde skant with honour with shame inough The erle of Anguish other chefe Capitains did quickly followe as their gouernour led And with the formoste their Irishmen Thearwith then turned all the hole rout kest doun their weapons ran out of their wardes of with their iackes with all that euer they might betooke them to the race that their gouernour began Oure men had foūd them at the first as what could escape so many thousand eyes and sharply and quikly with an vniuersall outcrie thei flye they flye pursued after in chase amam and thearto so eagerly and with suche fiersnes that they ouertooke many and spared indede but fewe as it mought then hardly haue bene both folie parell to haue shewed ony pitee But when they wear ones turned it was a wōder to see how soō in how sundry sortes they wear skattered The place they stood on like a wood of staues strewed on the ground as rushes in a chāber vnpassable thei lay so thik for eyther horse or mā Here at the first had thei let fal al their pykes After that euery whear skatred swordes buklers daggers iackes and all thing els that eyther was of ony weyght or mighte be ony let too their course which course amōg thē three weys specially thei made sum along the sandes by the Fryth toward Lyeth sū straight toward Edinborow whearof parte throughe the parke thear in the walles whearof though they be rounde about of flynte stone yet wear thear many holes al redy made and parte of them by the hye waye that leades alonge by holly rood Abbey And the residue as we noted then the moste of them toward Dakyth whiche wey by meanes of the marish our horsmen wear woorst able to followe Sundry shyftes sum shrewd sū sory made they in their running diuers of thē in their courses as they wear ware they wear pursued but of one would sodenly start back lashe at the legges of the horse or foyne him in the belly sumtyme did they reach at the rider also wherby Clemēt Pastō in the arme and diuers other otherwyse in thys chase weare hurt Sum other lay flat in a furrowe as though they wear dead therby past by of our mē vntouched as I harde say the Erle of Anguishe confessed he couched till hys hors hapt to be brought hym Oother sum to stay in the Ryuer cowringe doun hys body hys hed vnder the rote of a Willowe tree with skant hys nose abooue water for breath A shift but no succour it was too many that had their skulles on at the stroke of the follower too shrinke with their heddes into their shulders lyke a tortuis into hys shell Oothers again for their more lightnes cast awai shoos and doblettes and ran in their shirtes And sum also seen in in this race all breathles to fal flat doun and haue run themselues to death ¶ Before thys at the tyme of our onset cam thear Eastward a .v. C. of their horsmen vp a longe thys Fauxsyde Bray strayght vpon our ordinaunce and cariage My lordes grace as I sayde most specially for the dout of the same placynge hymself thearby caused a pece or two to be turned towarde them with a few shottes whearof they wear soon turned also and fled to Dakyth But had they kept on they wear prouided for accordingly for one parson Keble a chaplain of hys graces and two or thre oother by and by discharged foure or fyue of the cartes of municion and thearwith bestowed pykes billes bowes and arrowes to as many as came soo that of carters and other thear wear soon weaponed thear about a thousand whoom parson Keble and the oother dyd very handsomly dispose in array and made a prety mouster To returne nowe Soon after thys notable strewyng of theyr footmens weapons beganne a pitefull sight of the dead corpses liyng disparsed abrode sum their legges of sum but hought and left liynge half dead sum thrust quite thrughe the body oothers the armes cut of diuers their neckes half a sunder many their heddes clouen of sundry the braynes pasht out sum others agaī their heddes quite of with other M. kyndes of kyllīg After that further in chase al for the most part kylled either in the hed or in the nek for our horsmē coolde not well reach thē lower with their swoordes And thus with blod slaughter of the enemie this chase was continued .v. miles in length westward frō the place of their standynge whiche was in the fallow feldes of Undreske vntill Edinborowe parke well nye to the gates of the toune it self and vnto Lyeth And in breadth nie .iiii. myle from the Fryth sandes vp towarde Daketh Southwarde In all whiche space the dead bodyes lay as thik as a man may note cattell grasing in a full replenished pasture The Ryuer ran al red with blood soo that in the same chase wear counted aswell by sum of our men that sumwhat diligently did marke it as by sum of them takē prisoners that very muche did lament it to haue bene slayn abooue .xiiii. thousande In all thys cumpas of grounde what with weapons armes handes legges heddes blood and dead bodyes their flight mought haue easly bene tracted to euery of theyr .iii. refuges And for the smallnes of our number and shortnes of the tyme whiche was skant .v. houres from one till wellnie vi

me that it was to much then to be shewed in few woordes here Uery few thinges els to say truth that haue bene ony wher in these warres agaīst the enemie eyther nobly attempted or valiauntly acheued whearin his lordship hath not bene eyther the first ther in office or one of the foremost in daunger That if it fel so fete for my purpose to speake of his lordships honour at home as it hath doon sumwhat to touch his proowes abrode I coulde sure for commēdacion thearof moue my self matter wherin I wear able to sai rather liberally much then skarcely inough but omittīg that thearfore to turne to my tale agaī his lordship regarding the daūger our rerewarde was in by reason of disorder caused at this passage by the thicknes of this mist nienes of the enemies himselfe skant with a .xvi. horse wherof Barteuile Ihon de Ribaude wear .ii vii or .viii. light horsemen mo the reste of his own seruauntes returned towarde the passage to see to the arraye agayne The Scottes perceyuyng our horsemē to haue past on before thinkīg as the truth was that sum Capitain of honour did stay for the lookynge to the order of thys rerewarde kepinge the Southsyde of the Ryuer did call ouer to sum of our mē to knowe whither ther wear ony noble man nie thear they wear askt why they askt one of thē aunswered that he was such a mā whose name our mē knew to bee honorable among thē woold cum in to my lordes grace so that he mought be sure to cum in safetie our yoōg souldiours nothing suspecting their aunciēt falshed tolde him that my lorde Lieutenaūt the erle of Warwyke was nie thear by whose tuiciō he shuld be safely broughte to my lordes graces presence thei had cund their lesson fel to their practise which was this hauing cūmē ouer the water in the way as my lorde should passe they had couched behinde a hillok about a .ii. C. of their prickers a .xl. had they sent besyde to search whear my lord was whom whē thei foūd part of them prickt very nie these agayne a .x. or .xii. of my lordes small cōpanie did boldly encoūter draue thē wellnie home to their ambush fliynge perchaūce not so much for fear of their force as for falshod to trap thē But hereby enformed that my lord was so nie they sent out a bigger nūber kept the rest more secret vpon this purpose that they might eyther by a playn onset haue distrest him or els that not preuaylinge by feyning of flight to haue trayned him into their ambushe thus instruct they cam prickīg toward hys lordshippe a pace why ꝙ he wil not these knaues be ruled geue my staff the which then with so valiaunt a corage he charged at one as it was thought Dādy Car a Capitayn among thē that he did not onely cōpel Car to turne him self chased him aboue .xii. skore together all the way at the spear point so that if Carres horse had not ben exceding good wight his lordship had surely rū him thrugh in this race but also with his litle bande caused all the rest to flee a main After whom then as Henry Uane a gentlemā of my lordes one of this cōpany did fiersly pursue foure or .v. scottes sodēly turned set vpō him though thei did not alltogether skape his hādes free yet by hewyng māgling hys hed body many places els they did so cruelly entreat him as if reskue had not cum the sooner thei had slaī him out right but saued as he was I dare be bolde to sai many a M. in war els whear haue dyed with les then half the les hurt Here was Barteuile run at sydeling and hurt in the buttok one of our men slayn Of Scottes again none slaī but .iii. takē whearof one was Richarde Maxwell hurt in the thigh who had bene long in Englōd not lōg before had receyued right many benefites as I harde himself cōfesse both of the late kinges Maiestie of my lord Lieutenaūt of many other nobles gētlemen in the court beside thearfore for his ingratitude trayterous vntruth threatened too be hāged But as otherwise he had a great dele to much more then he deserued so had he here sumwhat to litle for how my lordes grace bestowed hym I wot not but hanged in dede he was not To make my tale per fit it is certeinly thought that if my lorde Lieutenaunt had not thus valiaūtly encountred thē ear thei coulde haue warned their ambushe how weakly he was warded he had bene beset roūd about by thē ear euer he could haue bene ware of thē or reskued of vs wher now hereby his Lordeship shewed hys woōted woorthines saued hys cūpanie discōfited the enemie Soon after he ouertooke my lord Protectour being as then set at dyner to whom he presented these prisoners recounted hys aduētures whose grace in the mean tune had hapt vpō a fellowe lyke a man but I wot not of what sorte smal of stature red hedded curld rounde about shedded afore of a .xl. yere old calde himself Knockes To say sumwhat of his hauour his cote was of the coulor of a wel burnt brik I meā not blak wel worth xx d a brode yarde it was pretely fresed half with an ado hēmed roūd about very sutably with pasmaī lace of grene caddis me thought he represented the state of a sūner in sum citee or of a pedler in sum boorowe how far so euer he had trauayled that day he had not a whit fyled his bootes for he had none on harmles bilyke for he ware no weapon he rode on a trottynge tyt well woorth a coople of shillynges the loss whereof at his takyng he toke very heuely yet did my lordes grace caus him to be set on a better I take his learning was but smal but his vttraunce was greate sure for he neuer lind babeling very moyst mouthed and somewhat of nature disposed to slauer and therfore fain without a napkin to wype hys lyppes to suppe at euery woord sum said it was no faut in the man but the maner of the cuntree in dede they haue many moyst mystes thear no lak of audacity nor store of wit for beynge taken brought in for a spie posed in that pointe whyther he went neither by the honestie of hys erraunde nor goodnes of his wit was he able to make ony lykely excuse the tenoure of his talke so tempred thoorow out and the most of hys matter so indifferently mingled as yf they make hym not bothe it was harde for any theare to iudge whether they might rather counte hym a folish knaue or a knauishe foole at whome my lordes grace and other had right good sport As Barteuile that day had righte honestly serued so did the lordes righte honorably quite yt for straight vpon the ouertakynge of my

Marshal the other with present mynde courage waerely and quikly continued their coorse towarde thē And my lordes grace then at his place by thordinaūce aloft The enemies were in a fallowe felde wherof the furrowes lay sydelyng towarde our men by the syde of thesame furrowes next vs and a stones cast from them was thear a crosdich or slough which our mē must nedes pas to cum to thē whearin many that could not leap ouer stack fast to no small daunger of theim selues and sum disorder of their fellowes The enemies perceiuing our men faste approche disposed themselues to abyde the brunt and in this order stood still to receyue thē The erle of Anguish next vs in their forewarde as Capitayn of the same with an .viii. M. iiii or .v. peces of ordinaunce on hys right syde and a .iiii. C horsemen on hys lefte Behind him sumwhat Westwarde the gouernour with a .x. M. inlōd men as they call them the choysest men counted of their cōtre And the erle Huntley in the rerewarde wellnie euen with the battaile on the left syde with .viii M. also The iiii.m Irish Archers as a wyng to them both last indede in order first as they sayd that rā a way These battaile rereward wear warded also with their ordinaunce accordinge Edward Shelley Lieutenaunt vnder my lorde Gray of hys bande of Bulleners was the first on our syde that was ouer this slough my lord Gray next and so then after two or thre rākes of the former bandes But badly yet coolde they make their race by reason the furrowes laye trauers to their course That notwithstondynge and thoughe also thei wear nothynge likely well to bee able thus a frunt to cum within them to hurt them aswell because the Scottishmens pykes wear as longe or lēger then their staues as also for that their horses wear all naked without barbes wherof ¶ The exposiciō of the letters of this table A. Signifieth the place we camped in before the battaile B. Our rerewarde C. Our battaile D. Our forewarde E. The square close F. The foot of the hylles syde G. My lorde Protectours grace H. The master of the ordinaunce I. Our horsmen K. The slough L. The lane and the .ii. turf walles M. Their forewarde horsmē by the same N. Their battaile O. Their rerewarde PP The .ii. hillockes before the church Q. Saint Mighels of vndreske R. Muskelborowe S. Their horsmen at the ende of fauxside Bray TTTT Their rewes of tentes V. The turf wall toward the frith VV. Our cariages X. the marish Y. Our galley Z. Edinborow castell ¶ The significaciō of certein other notes Signifieth a footman A horsman A hakbutter a foot A hakbutter on horsback An archer A footman slayn A horsman slayn The fallowe felde whearon their armye stode though thear wear right many among vs yet not one put on forasmuch as at our cumming foorth in the mornīg we loked for nothing les then for battail that daye yet did my lorde and Shelley with the residue so valiauntly and strongly gyue the charge vpō them that whither it wear by theyr prowes or power the left side of the enemies that his lordship did set vpon though their order remayned vnbroken was yet compelled to swey a good wey bak gyue ground largely and all the residue of them besyde to stonde much amased Before this as our men wear well nie at them they stood very braue bragging shaking their pyke pointes criyng cum here loundes cum here tykes cum here heretykes suche lyke as hardely they are fayre mouthed men Thoughe they ment but small humanite ▪ yet shewed thei hereby much ciuilite both of fayre play to warne ear thei strook of formall order to chyde ear they fought Our Captains that wear behinde perceyuinge at eye that both by the vnevinnes of the grounde by the sturdy order of the enemie and for that their fellowes wear so nie straight before them they were not able to ony aduaūtage to mainteine this onset did thearfore according to the deuise in that point appointed turne themselues made a soft retyre vp towarde the hyll agayne Howbeit too Thys secunde Table sheweth the placinge of our footmen the slaughter of Edwarde Shelley and the oother the Retyre of oure bande of horsemen vp to the hil and the breach of array of the straglers from thē But touchyng the exposicion of the notes and letters I refer the reder to the Table before confes the truth sum of the nūber that knue not the prepēsed pollecie of the counsaill in this case made of a sober aduised retyre an hasty temerarious flyght Sound to ony mans ear as it may I shal neuer admit for ony affection towarde coūtree or kyn to be so partial as wil wittingly either bolster the falshod or bery the truthe for honor in myn opiniō the way gotten wear vnworthely wun and a very vyle gain howbeit hereby I cānot count ony lost whear but a fewe leude souldiours ran rashely out of array without standard or Captayn vpon no cause of nede but of a mere vndiscretion madnes A madnes in dede for fyrste the scottes were not able to pursue because they wear footmen thē if they coold what hope by flight so far from home in their enemies londe whear no place of refuge ¶ My lord Marshal Edward Shelley litle Prestō Brampton and Gerningham Bulleners Ratclyf the lord Fitzwaters brother Syr Ihon Cleres son heyr Digges of kēt Ellerker a pēcioner Segraue Of my lorde Protectours bād my lorde Edward hys graces sonne Captain of the same bāde Stāley Woodhous Coonisby Horgill Morris Dennys Arthur and Atkinson with other in the forerāke not being able in this earnst assault both to tende to their fight afore to the retyre behynde the Scottes again wel considering hereby how weak thei remayned caught courage a fresh rā sharply forward vpon them and without ony mercy slewe euery man of our men that abode furthest in prece a .vi. mo of Bulleners and other then I haue here named in all to the number of a xxvi and most part gentlemē My lord Grey yet and my lord Edward as sum grace was returned agayne but neyther all in safetie nor without euident markes they had bene thear for the one with a pyke thrugh the mouth was raced a longe from the tip of the tunge and thrust that way very daungerously more then twoo inches wythin the neck and my lorde Edwarde had hys horse vnder hym with swoordes wounded sore and I thīke to death Lyke as also a litle before this onset Syr Thomas Darcy vpon hys approch to the enemies was strooken glauncing wyse on the ryght syde with a bullet of one of their felde peces and thearby his body broosed wyth the boowynge in of hys harneys hys swoord hiltes broken the forefynger of his right hāde beatē flat Euen so vppon the partynge of thys fray was Syr Arthur Darcy slasht at

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