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
but that thei may sarue for sumeas of vnderstandynge But since the skantnes of roome wil not suffer me plainly at leÌ„gth to write thear euery places name but thearfore am fayin in stede of a name to set vp a letter The Reder must be coÌ„teÌ„t 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 RaymuÌ„des Alphabete shal neuer cum to the composicion of his quintesseÌ„ce In practica testi sui ca. ii what he shal doo though sum practicioners doo dout And miÌ„ding 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 septeÌ„ber 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 consideracioÌ„s afore remeÌ„bred 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 douÌ„ 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 meÌ„ 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 lowriÌ„g 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 ordinauÌ„ce by draught of men whiche at this tyme begaÌ„ freely to shoot of toward vs whearby we wear further warned they meÌ„t more theÌ„ a skirmish Here with began euery man to be smitteÌ„ with the care of his office chardge thearupoÌ„ accordyngly to applie him about it Hearwith began still ridyng too fro herewith a generall rumor buzzing amooÌ„g the souldiours not vnlyke the nois of the sea beyng harde a far of herewith my lordes grace the couÌ„sel on horsbak as thei wear fell straight in consultacion The sharpnes of whoo 's circuÌ„spect wysedomes as it quyckly spyed out the enemies entntes so did it amoong other thinges proÌ„ptly 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 baÌ„de my Lord Lieutenauntes al to the number of an xviii C. horsmeÌ„ on the east half sir Raâ—e Uane with sir Thomas Darey captain of the pencioners men of armes my lord Fitzwaters with his baÌ„de of dimilauÌ„ces all to the nuÌ„ber also of a .xvi. C. to be redy eueÌ„ with my lorde Marshal on the west half thus all these toogether afore to encouÌ„ter the enemies a fruÌ„t whearby either to break their array that wey weakeÌ„ 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 takeÌ„ to be of no small dauÌ„ger 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 valiauÌ„tly and willingly executed of them for euen thear with good coorage takyng theyr leaues of the counsel my lord Marshal requyriÌ„g onely that yf it went not well with him my lordes grace would be good to his wyfe and chyldreÌ„ 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 aduauÌ„tage 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 circuÌ„spectly takeÌ„ order for the array and station of the armie for thexecucioÌ„ of euery maÌ„s office beside
Euē as it is metest that hed to be highest that shoolde wel look about for the safegarde of all the other membres and partes of the body so did his grace first perfitly appointed in fayre harneys accompanied with no mo as I noted then with Syr Thomas Chaloner knight one of the Clerkes of the kynges Maiesties priuie coūsaill take hys way toward the heyth of the hyll to tary by the ordinaunce whearas he mought both best suruey vs al and succour with ayde whear most he sawe nede and also by hys presence be a defence to the thing that stood weakest in place and most in daūger the which thearby how much it did stede anon shall I shewe As hys grace was halt vp the hill my lord Leiutenaūt as it chaūced by hym he was ware the enemies were all at a sodeyn stay and stood still a good while The sighte and cause hereof was marueyllous too vs all but understādable of none my Lordes grace thought as in dede the most lykely was that the men had muche ouer shotte themselues and woolde fayne haue bene home again herewith sayd to this effect These men surely wil cum no further it wear mete to cast whear we shoolde campe for peyn of my lyfe they will neuer fight It had bene hardely I wot not howe bad but I am sure no good deuise for our pour to haue forsaken their groūde to assaile them whearthey stood so far from the hill that we had wellnie wunne so hardly and shoold kepe to so much aduaūtage And in warfare allways tymely prouision is counted great pollecie Hereto his grace was sure that wee wear able better and longer to kepe our hyll then they their playne Asfor fighting now it mought be more then likely to who that cōsidered it their courage was quite quayled thearfore had no will to cum ony further but woold haue bene glad to haue bene whence they cam Firste because at that time besyde the ful mouster of our foot men of whoome they thought we had had none thear but all to haue ben eyther shipt or a shipping then they sawe playne that we wear sure to haue the gain of the hil and they the ground of disaduauntage out of their holde put fro their hope And hereto for that their Herauld gaue my lordes grace no warning the whiche by him if they had mēt to fight it out whoo woold not haue presumed that for the estimacion of their honour they woold little stuck to haue sent and he againe and it had bene but for his thousande Crounes woold haue bene right glad to haue brought These be the cōsideracions that both then and since did persuade me my lordes grace had good cause too say thei woold not fight Howbeit hereunto if I wist disclosed but half as muche now as I am sure of circumspeccion his grace knue then I doo not dout but I were able sufficiētly to prooue he might well be no les certeyn of that he had sayd then ony man might bee of an vndoon dede the which neuertheles how true it was the proof of the matter soon after did declare which was that the Scottes ran quite their way wold neuer tary stroke with oure footmen whear the fight on bothe sydes shold haue bene shewed Notwithstondyng by thys tyme consyderyng bylyke the state they stood in that as they had left their strength to soon soo now to be to late to repent vpō a chaunge of countenaūce thei made hastely toward vs agaī I knowe not to sai truth whither more stoutly of courage or more strongely of order me thoughte then I mighte noote bothe in their marche But what after I lerned The maner of the Scottish order in Battaile specially touchyng their order their armour and their maner of fight aswell in goynge to offende as in standing to defende I haue thought necessarie here to vtter Hakbutters haue they few or none appoint theyr fight most commonly alwais a foot They cum to the felde wel furnished all with Iak and skull dagger buckler and swoordes all notably brode and thin of excedinge good temper vniuersally so made to slyce that as I neuer sawe none so good so think I it harde to deuyse the better hereto euery mā hys pyke a great kercher wrapped twyse or thrise about his neck not for colde but for cuttīg In their aray toward the ioining with the enemie they cling thrust so nere in the foreranke shoulder to shoulder together wyth their pykes in bothe handes strayght afore them and their followers in that order soo harde at their backes laiynge their pykes ouer theyr fooregoers shoulders that if they doo assaile vndisseuered no force can well withstond thē Standing at defēce they thrust shoulders lykewise so nie together the forerākes wel nie to kneling stoop lowe before for their fellowes behynde holdynge their pykes in both handes and thearwith in their left their bucklers the one ende of the pyke agaynste their right foot ▪ thother agaīst the enemie brest hye their followers crossing theyr pyke pointes with theim forewarde and thus each with other so nye as place space wil suffer thrugh the hole warde so thick that as easly shall a bare fynger perce thrugh the skyn of an angrie hedgehog as ony encoūter the frunt of their pykes My lord Marshall notwithstondynge whoom no daunger detracted from dooing his enterprise with the cumpanie and order afore appointed cam full in their faces from the hilles syde towarde them Herewith waxt it very hot on both sydes The countenaunce of warre with piteful cryes horrible rore and terrible thunderinge of gunnes besyde the day darkened abooue hed with smoke of shot the sight and apparaunce of the enemye euen at hand before the daūger of death on euery syde els the bullettes pellettes arrowes fliyng each whear so thik and so vncerteinly lightynge that no whear was thear ony suerty of safety euery man strooken with a dreadfull fear not soo muche perchaunce of death as of hurt which thinges though they wear but certeyn to sum yet douted of all assured crueltie at the enemies hādes without hope of mercy death to flye and daūger to fyght The hole face of the felde on bothe sydes vpō this point of ioining both to the eye and to the ear so heauy so deadly lamentable furious outragious terribly confuse so quite against the quiet nature of man as if to our nobilite the regard of their honor and fame to the knightes Capitaines the estimaciō of their wurship and honestie and generally to vs all the naturall motion of bounden duetie our oun safetie hope of victorie the fauour of God that we trusted we had for the equite of our quarel had not bene a more vēhemēt cause of courage then the daūger of death was cause of feare the very horrour of the thing had ben able to make ony mā to forget both prowes pollecie But my lord
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
prety while ouerseen he retorned by Muskelborowe and so along by the Frythe diligently markyng and notyng thinges by the way And aswell in his retorne as in his out goyng many wear the houses gentlemen and oother that vpon submission his grace receiued in to his protection This dai my lords grace aswell for countenaunce of buyldyng as though he woold tary long as also to kepe our Pioners sumwhat in exercise whoō a litle rest woolde soone make nought caused along the east syde of Lyeth a greate dich and trench to be cast toward the Frith the woorke whearof cōtinued till the mornyng of our departyng ¶ My Lorde Clynton Thursday the xv of septēber hye Admiral as I said of this flete takyng with hym the galley whearof one Broke is Captain and .iiii. or .v. of our smaller vessels besides all well appoynted with municion men rowed vp the Frith a ten myle westward to an hauen toun stondyng on the south shore called Blaknestes whearat towardes the water syde is a castel of a prety strength As nie whearvnto as the depth of the water thear woold suffer the Skots for sauegard had laied the Mary willough by and the Antony of Newcastel .ii. tall ships whiche with extreme iniurie they had stollē from vs before tyme whē no war betwene vs with these ley thear also an oother large vessel called by them the Bosse and a .vii. mo whearof part laden with marchaūdize my lord Clynton his cōpenie with right hardy approche after a great conflict betwixt the castel our vessels by fyne force wan from them those .iii. ships of name burnt all the residew before their faces as they ley Friday the .xvi. of september ¶ The lard of Brimston a Skottish gentleman who cam to my lordes grace from their counsell for caus of communicacion bilyke retourned again to them hauing with him Norrey an herauld king of armes of ours whoo foūd them with the olde quene at Sterlyng a toun stondyng westward vppon the Frith a .xx. mile beyond Edinborowe ¶ Thear was a fellowe taken in our cāpe Saterday the xvii of september whoō the Scottes called English William an English man indede that before tyme hauyng doon a robery in Lincolnshier did after rū awai into Scotlād at this time cūmē out of Edēborowe castel as a spie for ȳe Scottes was spied himself with the maner and hāged for his mede in the best wise bicaus he wel deserued vpō a nue giebet somewhat biside our camp in the sight bothe of the toun castel God haue mercy on his soule Thear is no good logicioner but woold think I thīk that a Syllogisim thus formed of such a theuing maior a rūaway minor and a trayterous consequent must nedes prooue at the weakest to such a hanging argument Sir Ihon Luttrell knight hauyng bene by my lords grace and the counsell elect Abbot by gods suffraunce of the monastery of sainct Coomes Ins afore remembred in the after noon of this day departed towardes the Iland to be stalled in his see thear accordyngly had with him a coouent of a C. hakbutters and .l. pioners to kepe his house and land thear and .ii. rowe barkes well furnished with municion .lxx. mariners for them to kepe his waters Whearby it is thought he shal soō becū a prelate of great powr The perfytnes of his religion is not alwaies to tarry at home but sumtime to rowe out abrode a visitacion when he goithe I haue hard say he taketh alweyes his sumners in barke with hym which ar very open mouthed neuer talk but they ar harde a mile of so that either for looue of his blessynges or feare of his cursinges he is lyke to be sooueraigne ouer most of his neighbours My lords grace as this day geuyng warnyng that our departure shoold be on the morowe and myndynge before with recompence sumwhat according to rewarde one Bartō that had plaid an vntrue part cōmaunded that ouer night his hous in Lyeth shoolde be set afyer And as the same thesame night about .v. of the clok was doon many of our souldiours that wear very forward in fyering fyered with al hast all the toun besyde But so farfoorth as I may thinke without commissiō or knowledge of my lords grace as right many horses both of his graces and of diuers others wear in great daunger ear they coold be quited then from out of the toun .vi. greate ships liyng in the hauen thear that for age and decay wear not so apt for vse wear then also set a fyer which all the night with great flame did burne very solemnly In the tyme of our here campynge many lardes and gentlemen of the cuntry nie thear cam in to my lorde to require his protection the whiche his grace to whoom he thought good did graunt This day also cam the erle Bothwell to my lordes grace a gentleman of a right cumly porte and stature and hereto of right honourable and iust meanyng and dealyng toward the kyngs maiestie whoom my lords grace did thearfore accordyng vnto his degree demerites very frendly welcum and entertein hauing supped this night with his grace he then after departed Thear stode southwestward about a quarter of a mile from our cāpe a monasterie thei call it holly roode abbey sir Water Bonhā and Edward Chāberlayne gat lycence to suppresse it whearupō these commissioners makyng first theyr visitacion thear they found the moōks all gone but the church and mooch parte of the house well coouered with leade soon after thei pluct of the leade had doun the bels which wear but .ii. and accordyng to the statute did sumwhat hearby disgrace the hous As touchyng the moōkes bicaus they wear gone thei put them to their pencions at large Sunday the xviii of september ¶ My lords grace for consideracions moouyng hym to pitee hauing al this while spared Edinborowe from hurt did so leaue it but Lieth and the ships still burnyng soon after vii of the clock in this morenyng caused the cāpe to dislodge And as we wear parted from whear we laye the castel shot of a peal with chambers hardely all of a .xxiiii. peces we marched sowtheast from the Frith into the landward But part of vs kept the wey that the chiefe of the chase was continued in whearby we founde most parte of the dead corpses liyng very rufully with the colour of their skynnes chaūged grenish about the place they had be smitten in and as thento abooue grounde vnberied many also we perceyued to haue bene beried in Undreske church yarde the graues of whoom the Scots had very slyly for sight coouered agayn with grene turfe By diuerse of these dead bodies wear thear set vp a stik with a clowte with a rag with an olde shoe or sū oother marke for knowlege the which we vnderstode to be markes made by the frendes of the partie dead when they had found him whoō
with great stones in the bottom so vneuen of grounde And by reason of rayne that lately tel before the water so depe and the streame so swyft that right many of our horsemen and footmen wear greately at theyr passage in perell and one or twoo drowned and many cariages ouerthrowen and in greate daunger also of losyng My lords grace toke his wey strayght toward Nuecastell and thence homeward And my lordtherle of Warwik my lord Grey and sir Rafe Sadleyr with diuers oother rode towarde Barwyke to abide the cūmyng of the Scottish commissioners In the meā time of tariyng thear my lord of Warwyk did make v. knights Sir Thomas Neuell the lord Neuels broother Sir Anthony Strelley Sir Uerney Sir Ihon Barteuile Frēch man and anoother But the Skottes lyke men though supper in couenaunt yet cōstant in vsage and thearfore les blusshing to break promes then custome came not at all whearupō my lord oother of our commissioners hauyng taryed for them the full time of appoyntment which was vntil the iiii of october the next day after departed thēce homeward In part of the meane time while my lordes grace was thus doyng thexploits in Skotlād as I haue before written the erle of Linnos with my lord Whartō lord Warden of our westmarches against Skotland according as his grace had before takē order with a nūber of v. M. entred Skotlād on the west marches And first passing a ii mile after a dayes a nightes defence they wan the churche of Annan a strōg place and very noysum alwey vnto oure men as they passed that wey Thear they toke .lxii. prisoners the kepers of thesame burnt the spoile for cumber of caryage and caused the churche to be blowen with pouder passinge thence a .xvi. mile within the lōd soon after they wan a hold called the castle of mylke the which they left well furnyshed with municion mē and so retourned Diuers other actes notable they did here left vnwrittē of me because vnknowen too me but asmuche as I certeinly hard of I haue thought mete hereunto to adde because I may wel coūt theim as part of this expediciō viage A PERoracion vnto the gentle reder with a shorte rehersall of the Actes doon I Haue thus absolued my boke but neyther with suche spede as perchaūce it had bene the office of hym that woold take vpō hym to wryte of this matter nor as the dignitie of the Argument required publicacion For well it may be thought a man with meane diligēce that had ben forth in no parte of the viage might in this space haue learned and written as muche by enquirie at home And sith the pour of tyme is in eche case so great as thinges indifferently good by choyse of oportunitie are made muche comendable agayn by cumming out of season maye muche be disgraced Right small then maye I take my meryt to be that cum nowe so intempestiuely to tell the tale whearof al mens eares are ful of a four mooneths before Yet for excuse of my slacknes as who woolde not be blameles trustynge that my playne confession maye the rather mooue you too take thinges too the better I haue thoughte it best to render you the verye cause thearof whiche is that after I hadde sum what entred intoo thys busynes And thearby compeld to consyder the precise obseruaunce of dedes wordes and in a maner of gestures and the diligēt markinge of the situaciō of tounes castels and churches of the lieng of hils playns and feldes of the course of ryuers of respect of wyndes and of infinite such other thinges that oughte fyrst too haue bene made thear while they wear a doynge whyle a man had bene at them the which in dede I had not so perfitly written in my notes and thearfore dryuen to stresse my memorie the more for callinge the same too mynd agayn And here with regardyng the greate hede that ought to be had in rehersall of circūstaunces and placinge of thinges accordingly in writing as they wear done seen or hard I foūd the enterprise a great dele more weyghtie then the slēdernes of my wit was able quikly to pas with Howbeit whē vppon deper consideraūce I pondered with my self what a thīg it was to make ony monument in this so prosperous a comminaltie wherof the Gouernours are so absolutely wise whear in an infinitie number of men soo fynely wytted and so profoundly learned are besyde I rather regarded the counsell of the wyse poet Horace Inde Art Poet. whoo wils a man to kepe his writinges in his handes nine yere meaning a good while for correccion then hadde any hast of publicatiō whearby at ones I shold lose my libertie of amēdment Which libertie though after I mought haue neuer so well yet because it is nothinge so commēdable to mend a faut as to make no faut I woolde gladly before haue had the leysure to loke that the thyng might haue past as faultes from me as my diligēce could haue made it And surely had it not ben more for aūswering the expectacion of sum men of honour whoo knew I was in hand with the matter and who els peraduenture might haue douted my diligence then it was for myne own desyre to haue my doings soon to cūme abrode I woold haue taken a better breath ear they had cum out yet But sins the chaūce is cast the woord thus vttred cannot be called agayn whearby I haue ieoperded with your .iii. houres reding to make you cēsour of my three moneths wryting Iudge ye I pray you as ye maye with fauour and conster my meanyng to the best My nede I knowe is much to pray for I am not so foolysh too thinke my self so wise that with a text al fautles I can driue foorthe so longe a proces But as I for the tyme haue endeuoured to say rather as wel as I can then aswell as can be soo shall thear be for me libertie too all men too wryte what els they can vtter eyther foorther or better which if thei do I shal with all my hart becum then as benign a reder to thē as I woold wish you now to be here to me ¶ To the entent now I woold quite from cumber of enquirie or question suche as haply woold wyt what a do I had in the armie or how I hadde ony knowlege of that I haue written I haue thought it curtesie not to be daungerous to shew that it pleased my very good lord the erle of Warwyke Lieutenaūt of the host who thearby had pour to make officers too make me one of the Iudges of the Marshalsey as Master William Cycyl now master of the Requestes with my lorde Protectours grace was the other whearby we both not beynge bounde soo straightly in daies of trauel to ordre of marche nor oother while but when we sat in Courte too any great affayres had libertie to ride to see things that wear doon and leysure too
ye haue not yet cōmē to vs but kepe this hold thus we haue cause to take you as oure mere enemie And therefore be ye at this choyse for we wil take none auaūtage of your beīg here now whither ye your cōpanie will render your holde stonde body goodes at the order of oure will or els to be set in it again as ye were we wil assay to wyn it as we can The Capitayne beynge aboute this riddel brought in great doubt what aunswer well to make whyther best to do at last stroken with the feare of crueltie that by stubbernes he shoulde well deserue moued agayne wyth the hope of mercy that by submission he might hap to haue was content to render al at his graces pleasure and therupon commaunded to fetche hys cōpanye retourned to the Castel In the tyme of tariyng for fetchyng his garde we sawe oure ships with good gale and order fayre sayling into their Fryth The Fryth which is a great arme of the sea and runneth Westwarde into their countrey aboue .iiii. mile Upō this stādeth Lieth Blak nest Sterlinge sainct Ihōs Rode and all the beste tounes els in the Southpart of Scotlande This Capitayn came brought with him hys bāde to my lordes grace which was of xxi sober souldiours al so apparayled and appoynted that so God help me I will saye it for no praise I neuer saw such a bunche of beggers come out of one house together in my lyfe The Capitayne and .vi. of the worshipfull of the cōpanye were stayed commaundëd to the keping of the Prouost Marshal more hardly to take Mūdais handsell then for hope of auauntage the residue were licenced to gea their gate ▪ with this lesson that if they were euer knowen to practyse or do ought agaynste the army while it was in the countrey therupon takē they should be sure to be hāged After this surrender my lorde Ihon Gray beyng Capitayn of a nūber as for his approued worthines right wel he mought was appoīted to seaze take possessiō of the maner with al singular thappurtenaūces in to thesame belōging with whome as it hapt it was my chaūce to go thyther the spoile was not rych sure but of white bread oten cakes Scottishe ale wherof was indifferēt good store sone bestowed emōg my lordes souldiors accordingly as for swordes buklers pykes pottes panz yarne lynnē hēpe heaps of such baggage beside were skāt stopt for very liberally let alone but yet sure it would haue rued any good huswiues hart to haue beholden the great vnmerciful murder that our men made of the brood gees and good laīg hēnes that were slayn there that dai which the wyues of the toune had pēd vp in holes in the stables sellers of the castel eare we came In this meane time my lordes grace appoīted the house should be ouerthrowen wherupō the Capitain of the Pioners with a .iii. C of his laborers were sent doun to it whome he straight set a digging about the foūdaciō In the toun of dūglas the which we left vnspoyled vnburnt we vnderstode of the wiues for their husbādes wer not at home that it was George Douglash deuise cost to cast these crosse trēches at the peaths stode hī in .iiii. Scottish .l ' which is as much ster as iiii good english crounes of v.s̄ a pece a mete reward for such a worke Our Pioners were early at their worke again about the Castel Tuisdaye the vi of Septēber whose walles were so thick foūdaciō so depe ther to set vpon so craggy a plot that it was not an easy matter sone to vnderdig them Our army dislodged marched on In the wai we shuld go a mile a half frō Dūglas Northward ther were ii pyles or holdes Thornton Anderwike set both on craggy foundacion and deuided a stones cast a sunder by a depe gut wherein ran a litle Ryuer Thornton belōged to the lorde Hume Thornton and was kepte then by one Tom Trotter whereunto my lordes grace ouer night for summons sente Somerset hys Heraulde towarde whome .iii. or .v. of this Capitayns prikkers with their gaddes ready charged did righte hastely direct their course but Trotter both honestly defended the Heraulde sharply rebuked hys men and sayd for the summōs he woulde come speke with my lordes grace himself notwithstāding he came not but straight lokt vp a .xvi. poore soules like the souldiours of Dūglas fast within the house toke the keys with him cōmaunding them they shoulde defende the house tary within as they coulde not get out till his retorne whiche should be on the morow with municiō relief he with his prikkers prikt quite his ways Anderwyke perteined to the lorde of Hābleton Anderwyke and was kept by hys sonne heyre whom of custume they call the Master of Hābleton an .viii. more with hym To be knowē that the Scottes call the son and heyre of euery lord the Master of the house and surname wherof hys father is called lorde gentlemen for the moste part as we harde say My lordes grace at his comming nye sent vnto both these piles whiche vpon summōs refusing to rēder were straighte assayled Thornton by batrie of .iiii. of our great peces of ordinaūce certain of syr Peeter Mewtus hakbutters to watch the loopholes wyndowes on all sydes Anderwyke by a sorte of the same hakbutters alone who soo well besturd thē that whear these kepers had rāmed vp their outer dores cloyd stopt vp their stayres within kept thēselfes a loft for defence of their house about the battilmētes the hakbutters gat in fyered thē vnderneth wherby beyng greatly trobled with smoke smoother brought in desperaciō of defēce they called pitefully ouer their walles to my lordes grace for mercy who notwithstandinge their great obstinaci thēsample other of the enemies mought haue had by their punishmēt of his noble generosite by these wordes making half excuse for thē Men may some tyme do that hastely in a gere whereof after they mai soon repēt thē did take thē to grace thearfore sent one straight to thē But ere the messēger came the hakbutters had gottē vp to thē and killed viii of thē aloft one lept ouer the walles runninge more then a furlōg after was staī wtout in a water All this while at Thornton our assault their defence was stoutly cōtinued but well perceiuinge how on the tone side thei were batred mined on the other kept in with hakbutters rounde about sum of our men wtin also occupiyng al the house vnder thē for ther had likewise shopt vp thēselfes in the highest of their house so to do nothīg inward or outward neither by shotīg of base wherof they had but one or .ij. nor tumbling of stones the thinges of their chefe anoyaunce wherby thei might be able any while
then sith they durst not for feare or lack of leasure conuey awey to bery while we wear in those partes thei had stict vp a mark to fynde hym the sooner when we wear goon And passyng that day all quietly a .vii. mile we camped early for that night at Crainston by a place of the Lorde of Ormstons This morenynge his grace makynge Master Andrew Dudley knight broother vnto the erle of Warwyk as his valiaunce sundry whear tried had well before deserued it dispatched my Lorde Admirall and hym by shippes full fraught wyth men and municion towarde the wynnyng of an holde in the east syde of Skotland called Broughty Crak whiche stondest in such sort at the mouth of the tyuer of Tey as that beyng gotten both Dundy sainct Iohns town and many townes els the best of the cuntrey in those partes set vppon the Tey shall eyther be cum subiecte vnto this holde or els be compelled to for goo their hole vse of the riuer for hauyng ony thyng thearby cummynge inwarde or outwarde ¶ We went a ten myle Mūday the .xix. of september and camped towarde night a littell a thissyde a market town called Lawder at the whiche as we had indede no frendely enterteynment so had we no enuious resistaunce for thear was no body at home Here as our tentes wear a pytchyng a doosein or .xx. of their hedge crepers horsmen that lay lurking thearby lyke shepe byter curres to snach vp and it wear but a sory lambe for their prey vppon a hill about half a mile sowtheast from vs ran at and hurt one of our mē For acquitaile whearof my lordes grace commaunded that .iii. or .iiii. houses such as thei wear stondyng also vppon a hill .ii. flight shot southward from our cāpe shoolde be burnt Thomas fissher his graces secretarie rode straight thyther with a burnyng brand in his tone hand and his gun in the toother accōpanied with no mo but one of his own men and fyred them all by and by I noted it for my part an enterprise of a right good hart courage peraduēture so mooch the rather bicaus I woold not gladly haue taken in hand to haue doon it so my self spetially since parte of these prikkers stode then within a slight shot of hī Howbeit as in al this iorney vpon ony likelihode of bysines I euer sawe hym right wel appointed and as forward as the best so at the skirmish which the Scottes profered at Hailes castell on wedensday afore written the .vii. of this moneth I sawe none so nere them as he Whearby I maye haue good cause to be the les in doubt of his hardines Here also as we wear setteled our herauld Norrey retourned from the Skottes counsell with the Larde of Brimston and Rose their heraulde who vppon theyr sute to my Lordes grace obteyned that .v. of theyr counsell shoolde haue his graces safecundet that at ony tyme and place within fiften dayes durynge our abode in theyr cuntrey or at Berwyke the same .v. might cum and commen with .v. of our counsell touching the matters bitwene vs. Tuysday the xx of september ¶ Rose the heraulde departed erely with this saufecundet our campe reysed and we went that day an .vii. myle till as far as Hume castell whear we camped on the westsyde of a rocky hill that they call harecrag whyche stondeth about a myle westwarde from the Castell The Lorde of Hume as I sayd lay diseased at Edenborowe of his hurt in his flight at the Frydays skyrmysh before the battayle the Lady his wife cam straight to my Lordes grace makyng her humble sute that lyke as hys goodnes had graciously bene shewed to right many oother in receyuynge them and their howses into his graces protection and assuraunce euen so that it woold pleas him to receyue and assure her and her howse the Castell My Lordes grace myndynge neuer oother but to assure her she shoolde be sure soon to forgo it turned straight her sute of assurance into communicacion of tendring for my part I doubt not but the terrour of extremitie by their obstinacy and proffit of frēdship by their submission was sufficiētly shewed her the which hauyng well by like considered she lefte of her sute and desired respite for consultacion tyll the next day at noon whiche hauyng graunted her shere turned to the castell They say a matche well made is half wun we wear half put in assuraunce of a toward aunswer by the promesse of a prophecy amoong the Frenchmen which sayeth Chasteau que parloit femme que escote lūg voet rendre lautre and so foorth Thear wear certeī hakbutters that vpon appointment afore had beset the castell whoo then had further commaundement geuen them that takyng diligent hede none shoulde pas in or out without my lordes graces licence they should also not occupie ony shot or annoyaunce tyll vpon further warnyng ¶ This Lady in this mean tyme consulted with her sun heir prisoner with vs Wednesday the .xxi. of september and with oother her frendes the kepers of the castell at the tyme appointed returned this day to my lordes grace requirynge first a longer respit till .viii. a clock at night and thearwith saufcundet for Andrew Hume her secund sun and Iohn Hume lord of Coldamknowes a kinsman of her husbāds Captains of this castell to cum and speake with his grace in the meane while It was graunted her whearupon these Captains about .iii. of the clock cam to his Lordship after oother coouenaūtes with long debatyng on bothe partes agreed vpon she and these Captains concluded to geue their assent to render the Castell so far foorth as the rest of the kepers woold thearwith be content For .ii. or .iii. within saide they wear also in charge with keping it as wel as they for knowledge of whose mīdes my lords grace then sent Soomerset his herauld with this lady to the castel to them who as the herauld had made them priuie of the articles woolde fayne haue had leasure for .xxiiii. houres lenger to send to their Lord to Edīborowe to kno his wil but beyng wisely sharply cauld vpō by the herauld thei agreed to the coouenauntes afore by their Lady and capteyns concluded on Whearof parte wear as I sawe by the sequele that they shoolde departe thence the next daie mornyng by .x. of the clok with bagge and baggage as mooch as they coold cary sauyng all municion and vytayle to be left be hynde them in the Castell Howbeeit for as mooche as before tyme theyr nacion had not bene all together so iuste of coouenaunt whearby as then we mought haue cause fyrmly to credyt their promys my Lords grace prouidyng ech wey to be redy for them caused this night viii peces of our ordinaunce fenced with baskets of earth to be plāted on the southsyde towarde the Castell within pour of batrie the hakbuttes to continue their watch and warde Thursday the xxii of
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 gentlemeÌ„ 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 â–ª which is a rare thing vpoÌ„ so hie and stonie a grouÌ„d 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 stroÌ„gly 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 SooÌ„ 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 treÌ„ch and wall shoold likewise be cast a trauers within about a quoyts cast froÌ„ 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 MersyngtoÌ„ George Hoppringlâ—â— 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 furtherauÌ„ce 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 AlexaÌ„der what time with his oun haÌ„des he set the poor colde soldiour in his oun chaire of estate â–ª 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 coÌ„try 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.