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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

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myte from vs the whyche chardge Master Uane dyd so earnestly applye as he was thear wyth his number before .vi but the Larde whither he was warned thearof by priuie skout or spie he was passed by an oother waye and was soon after .vii. with my Lordes grace in the cāpe master Uane was welcūmed and hauing no resistaunce made but al submitted proffer of chere for so had the lorde charged his wyfe to doe soon after he retourned to the campe This day my lordes grace was certefied by letter from my lorde Clynton and sir Andrew Dudley that on the wednesday last beyng the .xxi. of this moōth after certein of their shott discharged against the castell of Browghty Crak thesame was yeldyn vnto them the whiche sir Andrew dyd then enter and after kepe as captain Wedynsday the .xxviiii. of september ¶ A Skottysh heraulde accumpanied with certein Frēchmen that wear perchaunce more desierous to marke our armie then to wit of our welfare cam and declared from their coūsell the within a seuenight after their commissioners to whoom my lords grace had before graunted his safecundet shoold cum commune with our counsel at Berwyk whose cūming my lorde Lieutenaūt master Treasurer thoother of our commissioners did so long while there abyde But these Skottes as men that ar neuer so iuste and in nothing so true as in breache of promys and vsyng vntruth neither cam nor by like ment to cū And yet sure take I this no fetch of no fine deuise ōles thei mean hereby to wyn that thei shal nede neuer after to promys vsyng the feate of Arnus In Epigrā Mor● who with his all weys swearyng and his euer liyng at last obteined that his bare woorde was as much in credyt as his solemn oth but his solemn oth indeede no more then an impudent lye Howbeit since I am certeyn that sundry of them haue shewed themselues right honest I woold be loth here to be coūted so vnaduised as to arret the fautes of many to the infamie of al. It was sayde amoong vs they had in the meane tyme receyued letters of consolacion and of many gay offers from the French kyng yet had that bene no cause to haue broken promys with the coūsel of a Ream Howbeit as these letters wear to thē but an vnprofitable plaster to heale their hurt then so ar thei full likly if thei trust much therin to fynd thē a corzey that will freate them a nue sore ¶ My lords grace consideryng that of vertue and welldooyng the proper mede is honour Aswell thearfore for rewarde to them that had afore doon well as for cause of encoorage to oother then after to doo the lyke dyd this daye after noon adourne many Lordes knyghtes and gentlemen with dignitees as folowe The names and promotiōs of whoō I haue here set in order as they wear placed in the herauldes book Sir Rafe Sadlier Banereis Treasurer Sir Fraunces Bryan Capteyn of the light horsmen Sir Rafe Uane Lieutenaūt of all the horsmen These knightes wear made Banerettes a dignitie abooue a knight and next to a Baron whose acts I haue partly touched in the story before Knightes ▪ The lord Grace of Wylton high Marshall The lord Edward Seimor my lordes graces sun Of these the reder shal also fynde before The lord Thomas Haward The lord Walldyke Sir Thomas Dacres Sir Edward Hastyng Sir Edmund Brydges Sir Ihō Thinne my lords graces Stuard of howshold Sir Miles Partrich Sir Ihon Conwey Sir Giles Poole Sir Rafe Bagnolle Sir Oliuer Laurence Sir Henry Gates Sir Thomas Chaloner one of the Clerks of the kyngs maiesties priuie coūsel and in this armie as I mought call him chefe secretarie who with his great peyns and expedite diligēce in dispatch of things passyng from my lords grace and the coūsel thear did make that his merite was not with the meanest Sir Fraunces Flemmynge master of thordinaunce thear a gentlemā whoom long exercise good obseruaunce hath made in that feate right perfit whear vnto in this viage he ioyned so mooch hede and diligence as it was well found how much his seruice did stede Sir Ihon Gresham Sir William Skipwyth Sir Ihon Buttes Sir George Blaag Sir William Frauncis Sir Fraunces Knolles Sir William Thorborow Sir George Haward Sir Iames Wylforde Sir Rauf Coppinger But that I haue writtē in the storie before with what forward hardines Sir George haward did bear the kings maiestie stāderd in the battail thear also of the industrious peyn of sir Iames Wilford how sir Rauf Coppīger did aied not smally in saufgard of the standard of our horsmen I woolde haue bene more diligent to haue rehersed it here Sir Thomas Wētwoorth Sir Ihon Maruen Sir Nychās Straunge Yet knightes Sir Charles Sturton Sir Hugh Askue Sir Frauncis Salmyn Sir Richard Tounley Sir Marmaduke Cūstable Sir George Awdeley Sir Ihon Holcroft Sir Ihon Soutwoorth Sir Thomas Danby Sir Ihon Talbott Sir Rowland Clerk Sir Ihon Horsely Sir Iohn Forster Sir Christofer Dies iii. spaniards Sir Peter Negroo Sir Alonzo de vile Sir Henry Hussey Sir Iames Granado Sir Water Bonham Sir Robert Brādling mayr of new castell and made knight thear at my lordes graces retourne As it is not to be douted but right many mo in the armie beside these did also well and valiauntly quite them Although their prefermente was rather then differred then their deserts yet to forgotten euen so amōg these wear thear right many the knowledge of whose actes and demerytes I coold not cū by And yet woold haue no man no more to doubt of the worthines of their aduauncemēt then they ar certein of his circūspectiō and wisedome who preferd them to it Whearupon all mē may safely thus far foorth without offence presume that his grace vnworthely bestowed this honour on no man By this day as Rokesborowe was sufficiently made tenable and defensible that whiche to see my lordes grace semed half to haue vowed before he woold thence departe his grace and the counsell did first determine that my lord Gray shoold remayne vpō the borders thear as the kynges maiesties Lieutenaunt And then took ordre for the forts that sir Andrew Dudley Captein of Broughty Crak had leaft with hym CC. soldiours of hakbutters and oother and a sufficient number of pyoners for his works Sir Edwarde Dudley Captain of Hume castell lx hakbutters .xl. horsemē and a C. pioners Sir Rafe Bulmer captain of Rokesborowe CCC souldyours of hakbutters oother CC. pioners Thursday the xxix of september being Mighelmas day ¶ As thinges wear thus concluded warnyng gyuen ouer night that our cāpe shoold this day dissolue euery man fell to pakkyng a pace my Lordes grace this morening soon after vii of the clok was passed ouer the Twede here The best place whearof for gettīg ouer whych was ouer against the west ende of our cāp and not farr from the brokē atches of the brokē bridge was yet
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.
Bryan was met a .vi. mile on thys syde Newecastell by my lorde Lieuetenaunt and Master Treasurer who for the more spedie dispatch of thinges were comen to toune there .iij. or .iiij days before and all the nobles Knightes Capitaynes of the armye on horsebacke attendīg vpō them And commyng thus to toune my lordes grace was honorably for the dignitie of the place with gonshot presence of the Mayer Aldermen and commoners there aboute iij. of the clocke in the afternone receyued and welcommed lay at the house of one Peeter Ryddell Thys daye mornyng in the feldes of the Northeast syde of the towne Sundaye the the .xxviii. of August moūster was made of suche dimie launces lighte horsemen as were comen wher at my lordes grace was hymself my lorde Lieuetenaūt other of the coūsail of the army In the after none came the lord of Mangiertō with a .xl. Scottish gentelmen of the east borders and presented them selfes to my lorde at hys lodgynge whome hys grace did gentlye accept It would not be forgotten it were but for ensamples sake how a newe paire of gallowes were set vp in the market place and a souldior hāged for quarellyng and fightyng All Capitaynes with theyr bandes that had ben moūstred Mondaye the xxix of August were commaunded forwarde My lordes grace himself dyd early also thē depart the toune dyned at Morpeth .xij. mile on the waye and lay that night in Anwyke Castell with syr Robert bowes knight lord Warden of the middle marches beyng .xii. mile further Where there neyther lact anye store of geastes or of good chere to welcumme them with In the prouision wherof a mā myght note great cost and diligence and in the spending a liberal hart Tuisdaye the xxx of August This day his grace hauing iourneyed in the mornyng a .x. mile dyned at Bamborow Castell wherof one syr Ihon horsley knighte is Capitayne Bamborowe Castell The plot of this Castell standeth so naturally strong that hardly can any where in my opinion be founde the lyke inaccessible on all sydes aswell for the great heighte of the crag whereon it standeth as also for the outward foorm of the stone whereof the crag is which not much amis perchaunce I maye lyken to the shape of long bauens stōdynge an ende with their sharper and smaller endes vpward Thus is it fenced round about and hath hereto on the eastsyde the sea at flud cummyng vp to the harde walles This Castell is very auncient and called in Artures days as I haue hard Ioyous garde hither came my lorde Clyntō from ▪ shipboorde to my lorde In the afternone hys grace rode too Berwycke xiiii mile further and thear receyued with the Captains garrisons and with the officers of the toun lay in the Castel with syr Nicholas Strelley knight the Capitayn thear Muche part of this day his grace occupied in cōsultacion Wednisdaye the last of August about ordres and matters touchyng this voyage and armie This day to th entent we moughte saue the stoore of the vitaile we caryed with vs in the armie by carte to besure rather amonge vs to haue somwhat to much then ony whit to litle as also that we should not nede to trouble oure ships for vitaile till we came to the place by my lordes grace appointed euery mā of the armye vpō generall cōmaundement made priuate prouision for himselfe for .iiii. dayes vitayle Thursday the first of September Hys grace not with many mo then his awn bande of horsmen roade too a towne in the Scottishe borders standynge vpon the sea coaste a .vi. mile frome Berwycke and is called Aymouth Aymouth whereat there runneth a riuer into the sea the whiche he caused to bee sounded perceyuyng then thesame well to be able to serue for a hauen hath caused since their buyldīg to be made whereof both Master and Capitayn is Thomas Gower Marshal of Berwyke Upon commaundement generally geuen by sound of trūpet Fryday the .ii of Septēber all sauing the counsayl departed the toune and encāped a .ii. flightshottes of vpon the sea syde and towarde Scotlande This day my lorde Clynton with his flete toke the seas frō Berwyke towarde Scotlande and herefore the rather that thoughe they mighte not haue alwayes wynde at will to kepe their course still with vs yet it wear but with the driuynge of tydes they might vpon any our nede of municiō or vitaile not long be from vs. My lorde Lieuetenaūt and master Treasurer who remayned at Newcastell after my lordes grace for the full dispatch of the rest of the armie came this daye to Berwyke Saterday the iii. of September My lorde Lieuetenaunt frō out of the toune did campe in felde with the armie To th entēt the excuse of ignoraunce eyther of the cause of my lordes graces cumming or of his goodnes to suche of the Scottes as shoulde shewe thē selfes to fauour thesame cummynge might quite bee taken from them his graces Proclamacion wherof they could not but here was openly pronoūced by Heraulde after sounde of trumpet in .iii. seuerall places of our Campe. Beside the mere matter of this iorney I haue here to touche a thing whiche seme it neuer so light to other yet of more weight to me then to be lette passe vnspoken of In the morning of this day my lordes grace walking vpō the Rampere of the tounewalles on the syde towarde Scotlande did tel I remembre My lordes graces dream that not many nightes before he dreamt he was comen backe agayn to the Courte whear the kynges Maiestie did hartely welcume hym home and euery estate els But yet him thought he had done nothinge at all in this voyage Whiche when he cōsidered with the kynges highnes great costes and the great trauaile of the great men and souldiours and al to haue ben done in vayne the very care shamefaste abashement of the thinge dyd waken hym out of hys dream What opinion might we conceiue of his thoughtes wakyng that euen dreaming was moued with so pensyfe a regarde of his charge towarde his prince and with so humain a thought toward all men els Howbeit my mynde is rather to note the Pronosticacion and former aduertence of his future successe in this hys enterprise the which I take it was hereby then moste certaynly shewed him althoughe of righte fewe or rather of none thesame so taken That if for ensample like to this I should reherse to you out of the olde Testament Gene. xli how the seuen plentifull yeres and the seuen yeres of famyn in Egipt were plainly signified afore to Pharao by hys dreams of seuen fat oxen and seuē full eares of corne and by vii leane Oxen that deuoured the fat and .vii. withered eares consuming the full eares Iustini li. i. And hereto oute of prophane aucthors how Astyages kynge of Medians was many a day before admonished that he shoulde be ouercommen by