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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

By reason of which letters fyercros thear wear assembled in their camp as I haue hard sū of thē selues not of the meanest sort to confesse aboue .xxvi. M. fighting footmen beside .ii. M horsemē prickers as they cal them and hereto .iiii. thousande I rishe Archers brought by therle of Arguile all whiche sauing certaī that we had slayne the day before cam out of theyr campe to encoūter with vs. Now whear they wil haue it no felde let thē tell their cardes and coūt their wynnyng and they shall fynde it a felde howbeit by myn assent we shall not herein muche stick with thē since both without them the truthe shall haue place and also by the curtesie of gaming we ought sumwhat to suffer and let euer the losers haue their libertie of woordes But whatsoeuer it wear felde or no feld I dare be bold to sai not one of vs all is ony whit prouder of it then woold be the tooth that hathe byt the tung ootherwise then in respect that they wear our mortal enemies and woold haue doon asmuche or more to vs nor are nothing so fain to haue beaten theim as enemyes as we woold reioyce to receiue them as frendes nor are not so glad of the glorie of thys felde as we woold be ioyfull of a stedfaste atonement whearby like cuntreymen and cuntreymen like frend frend nay like broother and broother we might in one perpetual and brotherly life ioyn loue ▪ lyue together accordynge as thearunto bothe by the appointement of God at the firste and by continuaūce of nature since we seme to haue bene made and ordeyned seperate by seas from all oother nacions in customes and conditions littell differinge in shape and langage nothynge at all The whych thynges oother nacions viewing in chartes and redyng in bookes and thear with hering thys tumult thys rightyng these incursions and intestine warres betwene vs do thearat no lesse marueyl and blesse thē then they woold too here Gascoing fight with Fraūce Aragone with Spayne Flaūders with Brabāt or to speake more nere and naturally frende with frende brother with brother or rather hand with hand To the Scottes That no litle bothe woōder and wo it is to me my Cūtreemen for I can vouchsafe ye well the name to cōsider what thing might moue ye what tale might incense ye what drifte force ye what charme enchaūt ye or what furie coniure ye so fondly to flye from cōmō sense as ye shoulde haue nede to be exhorted to that for the whiche it wear your partes most chefly to sue so vntowardly to turne from humaine reason as ye wil be the hynderars of your owne weales so vntruly to swarue from the bondes bothe of promise and coouenaūt as ye wyll nedes prouoke your frendes to plaine reuēgement of opē war Your frendes in dede nay neuer wynke at the woorde that haue so long before these warres forborne oure quarels soo iust that wear so loth to begyn and since that suffred so many iniuries vnreuēged entreating your men taken not as captiues of oure mortall enemyes but as Ambassadours of oure derest frendes Oh how may it be thought to be possible that ye shoulde euer forget or els not euer remember the great munificence of our most magnificent prince our late kyng that when with most crueltie by slaughter of subiectes and burnyng of tounes At Allowentide M.d.xlii your last king Iamy with all your nobilitee had inuaded hys Realme and soone after the inuincible pollecie of my lorde Protectours grace then liyng at Anwike as lord wardeyn of our Marches by the suffraūce of Gods fauour which thākes to his Maiestie hath not yet to left vs at Solom Mosse made them captyue and thrall to our prynces oune will with whom for their dedes if hys hyghnes had delt then as they had deserued what should haue blamed hym or who coulde haue controlled since what he could doo they could not resiste and what he should do they had set hym a sample But hys Maiestie among the houge heape of oother hys pryncely vertues beyng euer of nature so enclined too clemencie as neuer of will would vse extremite euen straight forgettinge who they wear and soone forgyuynge what they hadde doon did not onely then receyue theym into hys highnes grace place euery of them with one of hys nobilitie or counsayll not in pryson lyke a captiue pardon theim their raundsommes whearwith if they be ought woorth sum Prince mighte haue thought hymn selfe ryche and hereto most frendely for the tyme they wear here entertein them but also of hys Princely liberalitee impartinge treasure at their departing to eche of them all dyd set theim francke and free at their own doores Touchinge theyr sylkes their cheynes and theyr chere besyde I mynde not here amōg matters of weight to tary on such trifles Mary thear be amoong vs that saw their habite and porte bothe at their cummynge and at their departinge Take it not that I hit you here in the teeths with oure good turnes yet knowe I no cause more then for humanitees sake why ye shoulde bee forborne but as a man may sumtyme without bost of hym selfe say symply the thing that is true of him selfe so maye the subiect without obbraid of benefites recount the bounty of hys Princes larges Although perchaūce it wear not much agaīst manerflatly to break curtesy with thē who either of rechelesnes forget their frendes benignitie or els of ingratitude will not acknowledge it To my matter now What woold Cyrus Darius or Anniball in this case haue doon noble cōquerours and no tyrauntes but why so far of what woold your owne kinge Iamy haue doon naye what kynge els woolde haue doon as our kyng dyd but sūwhat to saie more As our prince in cases of pitee was of hys own disposiciō most merciful so wanted thear not then of cōsaillours very nere about hys highnes that shewed them selues their frendes furthered hys affectes in that behalfe to the vttermost being thus perswaded that as ye of the nobilitee appered men neither rude of behauour nor base of birth soo ye woold neuer shew your selues inhumaine and ingrate towardes hym too whome ye should be so depely bounde And though since that tyme God haue wrought hys wyll vpon hys Maiestie a losse to vs sure woorthy neuer inough to haue be lamented but that hys mercie hathe agayn so bountifully recompensed vs wyth an image so nie representyng hys fathers Maiestie and vertues of so great hope and towardnes yet be thear leaft vs moste of the coūsailours we had who vpon occasion will bend bothe pour and wil to shew you further frendshippe In parte of proof thearof to speake now of later daies how many meanes and weys hath my lord Protectours grace within his tyme of gouernaūce vnder the kinges Maiestie that now is attēpted and vsed to shōne these warres and show him selfe your frēde what pollecie hathe he left vnproued what

disposicion and behauour in fiercest tyme of war seking nothing more then peace neither cruell vpon victorie nor insolent vpon good successe but with most moderate magnanimitee vpon the respect of occasiō vsing as the Poet saith Vergil Parcere subiectis debellare superbos In peace agayn hoolly bent to thaduauncement of Gods glorie and truthe the kynges honour and the commons quyet and wealth And herewith conferring the benefites and blessinges that by the prophet Dauid the Lorde assureth too all them that so stōde in looue and dreade of hym Psal. cxi c.xxvii I am compelled to thinke hys grace as lest happy by fortune so most blessed by God and sent to vs both kynge and commons as a minister by whome the merciful Maiestie of the Lorde for our entier comfort of bothe soule and body wyll woorke his diuine wyll That if without offence I may openly vtter that I haue secretly thoughte I haue bene often at a great muse with my selfe whither the kynges Maiestie of suche an Unkle and Goouernour we of such a Mediatour and Protectour or hys grace agayn of suche a Prince Cosyn might most worthely think them selfes happiest But since I am so certaine thexcellencie of hys actes and the basenes of my braine to be so far at oddes as ought that I could vtter in his prayse should rather obscure and darken them and as it wear washe iuery with inke then gyue theim their due light and life let no man look that I will here enterprise too deale with the woorthines of hys commēdacions who both haue another matter in hande and they agayne beyng suche as might by them selues be an ample theame for a right good witte whearin to saye eyther litle or insufficiently wear better in my mynde leaft vnattēpted say nothing at al. Mary an Epigram made vpon the Citezens receyuing of his grace and for gratulaciō of his great successe and saufe retourne the whiche I had or rather to saie truth and shame the deuel for out it wool I stale perchaūce more familiarly then frendly from a frende of myne I thought it not muche a mis for the neatnes of making and fynenes of sense and sumwhat also to serue if reason woold beare it in lieu of my lacke here too place Aspice nobilium Dux inclyte turba virorum Vtque alacris latos plebs circūfusa per agros Te patriae patrem communi voce salutent Scilicet et Romam victo sic hoste Camillus Sic redijt victor domito Pompeius Iarba Ergo tuus felix reditus praesentia felix Vtque Angli fusique tua gens effera Scotti Dextra qua nūquam visa est victoria maior Det Deus imperium per te coeamus in vnum Simus vnanimes per secula cūcta Britanni Though I plainly told ye not that my frēdes name wear Armigil Wade yet ye that know the man his good litterature hys witte and dexteritee in all his doinges marke the well couchynge of hys clue mighte haue a great ges of whose spinnyng the threde wear But why these warres by our late souereign Lorde the kynges Maiestie deceased a Prince moste woorthy of eterne fame whose soule God haue wear in hys dayes begunne and yet to cōtinued Forasmuche as by sundry publicacion of dyuers wrytynges aswell then as since the iust title of our kynge vnto Scotland the Scottes often deceites vntrueths of promyse and periurie hathe bene among other in the same writinges so manifestly vttred I entend not here now to make it ony part of my matter which is but onely a iournall or diarie of this expediciō into Scotland whearin I haue digested our euery daies dedes orderly as they wear doō with their circumstaunces so nie as I could from the tyme of my lord Protectours grace cummyng to Newcastell vntyll or breakyng vp of the campe frō Rokesborow And herein I dout not but many thinges bothe right necessarie woorthy to be vttred I shall leaue vntold but sure rather of ignoraunce then of purpose Although in dede I knowe it weare metest for ony writer in thys kynde to be ignoraūt of fewest and writyng of most yet truste I agayne it will be consydered that it is neyther possible for one mā to know all nor shame to be ignoraunt in that he cannot knowe But as touchynge dedes well doon being within the cumpas of my knowledge as so God helpe me I mynde to expresse no mās for flatterie so wyll I suppresse no mās for malice This battell and felde now whiche is the most principall part of my matter the Scottes we are not yet agreed how it shal be named we cal it Muskelborough felde because that is the best towne and yet bad inough nigh the place of oure metīg Sum of thē cal it Seton felde a toune thear nie too by meanes of a blynd prophecie of theirs whiche is this or sum suche toy Betwene Setō the sey many a man shall dye that daye Sum wyll haue it Fauxside Bray feld of the hil for so they cal a Bray vpon the syde whearof our foreward stoode redy to cum doune and ioyne Sum oother will haue it Unreskfeld in the fallowes whear of they stoode we met Sum will haue it Walliford feld sum no feld at all for that they say thear wear so few slain and that we met not in a place by appointement certayn according to the order and maner of battell with suche like fonde argumentes Mary the hinderars of thys metynge I thinke for their meanyng small synne to beshrew They of thys haste hoped to haue had the hole aduantage for what they dyd appoynte vppon with out warnyng then so early to dislodge and so hastely tapproche who cannot iudge And whither thei mēt to make a feld of their fight or ment too fighte at all or not iudge ye by thys that after ye here Certayne it is that agaynste their assemble and our encounter for they wear not vnware of our cummynge in the former parte of the yere they had sent letters of warnīg to the states of their Realme and then caused the fier crosse in moste places of theyr countrey to be caried whearof the solempnitee is neuer vsed but in an vrgent nede or for a greate poure eyther for defence of theim selues or invasion of vs. And thys is a crosse as I haue hard sum say of .ii. brandes endes caried a crosse vpon a spears point with proclamaciō of the time and place whā and whither they shall cū and with how much prouision of vitail Sum other say it is a cros ▪ painted al red and set for certayn dayes in the feldes of that Baronrie whearof they will haue the people too cum whearby all betwene sixty and sixten are peremtorily summoned that if they cum not wyth their vitayll accordyng at the tyme and place then appointed all the lond thear is forfaited straight to the kynges vse and the tariers taken for traitours and rebels

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

shifte vnsought or what stone vnsturde Touchynge youre weales nowe ye mynde not I am sure to lyue lawles and hedles without a Prince but so to bestowe your Quene as whoos 's make must be your kynge And is it then possible ye can so far be seduced brought too beleue that in all the worlde thear shoulde be ony so woorthy a Prynce as our king Aswel for the nobilitee of his birth for his rare cumlines of shape his great exellēcie of qualitees hys singular towardnes to al godlines vertues Ony likely to be so naturall a Prince for you as his maiestie borne bred and brought vp vnder that hemispherie cumpas of element and vpon that soile that bothe ye we be all Ony so mete for her as your princes own cuntreman a right Britō both bred and borne a Prince also by birth of so great a pour of so mete an age The ioynyng of whome both the kynges their fathers dyd vowe in their lyues and ye since agreed vpon in Parliament and promysed also after their deathes Than whiche thynge takynge ones effect what cā be more for your vniuersall commoditees profites and weales whearby euen at ones of forein foes ye shal accept as familiar frēdes of weake ye shal be made strōg of pour rych of bōd free And whither this now be rather too be offered of vs or sued for you I make your selues iudges What we ar able a lone to doo both in peace and warre aswel without you as against you I nede not here to brag Yet seke we not the mastership of you but the felowship for if we did we haue ye wot a wey of perswasion of the rigorus Rethorike so vengeable vehemēt as I thinke ye haue felt by an oration or two that if we woolde vse the extremitee of argumēt we wear soō able so to beat reason in to your heddes or about your heddes that I doubt not ye woold quikly fynd what fōdenes it wear to stond in strife for the mastrie with more then your match We coueit not to kepe you bond that woold soo faine haue you free aswel from the famed frendship of Fraūce if I may call it ony frendship at al that for a few crounes do but stay you styll in store for their own purpose whearunto now bothe ye seme subiect and your Quene ward which frēdship neuertheles what soeuer it be we desyer not ye shoulde break with them for the loue of vs but onely in case whear ye shoulde be cōpeld to lose either theim or vs and in that case perchaunce we maye be content agayne too lose them for you Aswel from the semblaunce or rather dissemblinge of thys fayned frendeshippe I say wē cooueit to quite ye as also frō the most seruile thraldome and bondage vnder that hydeous monster that venemous Aspis and very Antichriste the Bisshop of Rome the whiche of so longe tyme ye haue and yet to do most miserably abyde whose importable pride and execrable arrogancie aswell moste presumptuouslye againste all sacred estates of Prynces vppon earthe as also moste contiumeliously agaynst the high Maiestie of God hym selfe with fastidious and vtter contempt of bothe God and man bothe the contexte and tenour of hys owne Decrees Decretals Canons and Extrauagantes made and conspyred at the congregacions councels and synodes at sundry tymes for the maintenaūce and augmenting of hys antichristiane authoritee in hys holynes name assembled And hereto hys wicked blasphemie agaynste God his deuelish dispensaciōs against his diuine lawes hys obstinate rebellion agaynst all powres his outragious vsurpacion in Princes londes hys cruell tyranny for kepyng of hys kyngdom hys coouert hipocrisie at home his craftie cōspiracies abrode his insaciable auarice hys suttell supersticiō hys mischeuous malice his priuie theft hys open rapine hys sacred simonie hys prophane hoordom his ambitiō sacrilege extorcion Idolatrie poysenynges with many other his carnall vertues beside And also the vndouted witnes of holy writ in both the testamentes dooth most certainly shew and plainely make clere to the eyes of ye all if ye will not wilfully winke at the ye should willingly see Of hym hardely spake the prophet Daniel Capi. xi He shal be lift vp a hye magnified against all that is God shall speake presumptuous woordes and shal be set i a coorse vntil wrath be fulfilled against him In the same Chap. He shal set at nought the God of their fathers shal be in the dalyaunces and desyers of womē and shal pas nought for God but shall obstinatly be stubborne and ryse againste all And the holy prophet Ezechiel Cap. xxviii Thy hart was lift vp very hye and saydest I am God and sit in Gods seat whear thou art but man not God and neuertheles hast framed thy hart lyke the harte of God Thappostel sainct Paul also in whome the graces of God dyd so plentyfully aboūd semed not vtterly to forget this prelate when in his epistle too the Thessaloniens he sayde ii Tessa ii The lorde Iesu shall not cum tyl first thear be a fayling and that wycked man be discooueuered the chylde of perdicion who is aduersarie and exalted against all that is called God in such sort as he stik not to sit in the tēple vaūting hym self that he is God And addeth a litle after whō the lord Iesu shall quel with the spirit of his holy mouth Of him his abhominable behauour is thear much in bothe the holy testamentes Hiere xxiii eze xxxiiii Apo. xiiii xvii.xix a great dele more I must cōfesse then I knowe my cumnyng can recite Al so plai in sense and easy to be vnderstōd that if ye confer the woordes of the same with the actes of his life ye shal haue no more cause to doubt whither he be the only ātichrist thē ye may haue whither he wear only Christ of whome sainct Ihon the Baptist sayde Ioan. i. Mat. xv behold the lābe of God the Centurion This was sure the very sonne of God I speake neither of spite nor of spetialtie of this precious prelate Paule the .iii. that now is alone but of hi his hole aūcetrie of these many yeres paste of whome sure whoo list too saye ought wear mete they sayde truthe whoo list to say truth cā say no more good for their actes by their office and lyues by their profession ar no les certainly knowē vnto all the woorld to be thus then is the lyon as they say by the pawe or the day by the sunneshyne The trees of that stocke bear neuer oother frute And thearfore was it that neyther the Grekes the Ruthens nor many nations in theast partes besides whome we cannot count but Christians coulde neuer be brought ones so muche as to tast of it and wold neuer abide the presumptuous vsurpation of his insolent imperie but vtterly at the first did wysely refuse the vnweldy weight of so heauy a burthen