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
THE Expedicion into Scotlāde of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward Duke of Soomerset vncle vnto our most noble souereign lord the kīges 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 VIVAT VICTOR VNto the right honorable Syr VVilliam Paget knyght of the most noble order of the Garter Comptroller of the kynges Maiesties housholde one of his hyghnes priuie counsaill Chauncellor of the duchie of Lancaster and his moste benigne Fautour and Patrone VVilliam Patten most hartely vvisheth felicite HAuynge in these last warres againste Scotlande that neuer wear any with better succes acheued made notes of actes thear doon and disposed the same since my cummynge home into order of diarie as followeth As one that woulde showe sum argument of remēbraunce right honorable Sir of your moste benign fauour that aswel while I was with the right honorable my very good lord and late master the erle of Arundell as also since ye haue vouchsafed to bear me I haue thought metest to dedicate my trauail vnto your honor How finally I either am or haue ben by ony meanes able to merite the same your gētelnes by so moch the lesse haue I nede here too shewe as your humayne generosite your willyng benignite and promptnes to proffit all men is vnto all mē so cōmonly knowen for the whiche youre name and honor is so familiar and well estemed with forein princes abrode so woorthely welbeloued of al estates at home for who was he of ony degree or cūtree that had ony iust sute or other a do with our late souereign lord the kinges Maiestie deceased when his highnes in these his latter yeres for your approued wysdome fidelite trust and diligence had cōmitted the speciall ministerie dispatch of his weyghtie affaires vnto your handes that felt not as moche then as I haue foūde since or who findeth not still a constant continuaunce thearof whear the equite of his sute may bear it Ryght many sure of the small knowledge I haue could I my selfe reken both of than and since whiche here all willyngly I leaue vnattempted to doo both bi cause my rehersall shoulde be very vnnecessarie vaine to you that know them better then I and also that I should tell the tale to your self Whoō for the respect of your honour as I haue a reuerence wyth vanitees frō your graue occupacions to deteyne so haue I for honesties sake a shame to be suspect by ony meanes to flatter That same your syngler humanitee wheare wyth ye are woont also so gently to accept all thyng in so thankefull a parte whear with ye haue boūd me so straightly to you dyd fyrste to saye the truthe now emboldē me in this theame to set pē to the book nowe after in thys wyse to present my worke vnto you The which if it shal please your honour too take well in woorthe and receyue in to your tuicion As the thing shall more indede be dignified by hauing suche a Patrone then your dignytee gratifyed by receyuinge so vnworthy a present euen so what fault shal be founde thearin I resume as clerely cummyng of my selfe But yf ought shal be thought to be aptly sayd pleasaūt ony thing sauering of witte or learnyng I woold all mē should know it as I acknowledge it my self that the must holy be referred to you then couraging of whose fauour hathe ministred suche matter to my witte That lyke as Ouyde sayd to Cesar of hys so may I say to you of myne Ingenium vultu statque caditque tuo Faustor .i. But now no further with my talke too troble you Thus with encrease of honour vnto your woorthines most hartely I wishe the same continaūce of health and wealth Your moste bounden client and puple W. Patten A PREface seruynge for muche parte in stede of argument for the matter of the storie ensuing ALthough it bee not allways the truest meanes of meting to measure all mēs appetites by one mans affeccion yet hereof at thys tyme dare I more then half assure me that euen as I would be in case like my selfe so is euery man desyrous too know of the maner and circūstaunces of thys our most valiāt victorie ouer our enemies and prosperous successe of the rest of our iourney The bolder am I to make this general iudgement Arist. Metaph .i. partly for that I am sumwhat by learning but more by nature instruct to vnderstonde the thursty desyer that all our kynde hath to knowe And then for that in euery cōpany and at euery table whear it hath bene my hap to be since my cummynge home the hole communicactō was in a manner nought els but of this expedicion and warres in Scotland whearof many to me then haue ministred so many interrogatories as would haue wel cumbered a righte ripetunged deponent redyly to aunswer I indede thearto soo hastely could not Yet neuertheles blame them no more for quiknes of question then I would my selfe for slownes of aūswer For considering how muche in euery narracion the circūstaūces do serue for the perfit instrucciō of them that doo here I can easly thincke thesame wear as muche desyred of them to be hard as necessarie of me to be told And specially of this to say chefely of the battel beyng suche a matter as neyther the like hathe bene sene wyth eies by any of this age now or red of istorie of ony yeres past So great a pour so wel picked appointed so restfull fresh so muche encouraged by hope of forein ayde at their owne doores nay in the middes of their house and at the worst so nie to their refuge to be beaten vanquished put to flight and slayne by so smal a number so greatly trauayled and wery so far within their enemyes lond and out of their own without hope either of refuge or reskue The circūstaunces hereof with the rest of our most triumphāt iourney whiche otherwise aptly for vnaptnes of tyme I could not vtter by woord of mouth here mynde ▪ I god willing no we too declare by letter of writīg Not as of arrogācie taking vpon me the thing which I my self must cōfesse many cā do better but as of good will doyng myn endeuour for that in me lieth to make all mē priuie of that whereof it wear mete no man wear ignoraunt Aswel because thei may the rather vniuersally be mooued to pray prayse glorifie the most merciful Lorde whose clemēcie hath so cōtinually of these late yeres vouchsafed to shew hys moste benign fauour towarde vs As also to worship honour and haue in veneracion the reuerend worthines of our most honorable Coūsaill By whose generall sage consultacions circumspect wisdomes as frēdship with forein princes prouision for thenemie hathe bene cōtinued and made abrode we garded
thing as most hartely for my part I dayly wysh for so haue I good hope shortly to see and herewith betake you to God But now to retourne out of my disgressiō for though I haue bene long a talkynge to my cuntrymē abrode in the North yet wear I loth to seme to forget my frendes at home in the South And fare lyke the diligent seruaunte that walkes so earnestly on hys masters erraund that in the myddes of his wey forgets whither he goeth Howebeit I might well perchaunce thinke it euen here hye tyme to leaue wear it not that since I am in hande to vtter in this case what I know nooseld of my nurce neuer too be spare of spech though I be but a bad euāgelist yet wil I leaue as few vnwrittē verites as I cā As my lordes grace my lord of Warwyke thother estates of the coūsail thear with the rest of the dignite of th armie did at our settīg outward tarry a few daies at Barwike the wel appointing of the noble mē for their bōdes of the knyghtes gentilmē for thē selues seruaūtes I meane specially of the horsmē which though but at moustres was neuer shewed of purpose yet coolde it not at that tyme be hyd but be bright apparāt in euery mās eye was if I can ought iudge I assure you for the goodly nūber of the likely men redy horses for their perfit appointmēt of sure armour weapō apparail their sūptuous sutes of liuerers beside wherof I must of dutie if I muste of dutie sai truthe most woorthely prefer and geue the chefest pryce and prayle too my lorde Protectours graces trayne to my lord of Warwykes was I say so generally such and so well furnished that both theyr dutie toward their prince their looue toward their countrey to the rulers wear thear hereto thaūciēt English courage and prowes might haue easly in this assemble bene viewed Men goyng out neuer better at any tyme in all poyntes appoynted neuer better besene wyth more courage and gladder wyll whearof wyth spede for no doubt our enemies had factours at thys marte among vs though as wisedome was they dyd not openly occupye the Scottes had soone knowledge And as they are mery men and feat iesters hardely they sayde as we hard that we weare very gay and came by lyke a wooynge the whyche though they spake drylie more too tant the sumpte of oure show then to seme to know the cause of oure cummynge yet sayde they thearin more truly then they woolde kyndely consyder for in dede euen as they wear acertayned by my lordes graces Proclamacion aswell at and before oure entrie into their coūtrey that the cause of our cummynge then was nothynge els but touchynge the perfourmaunce of coouenauntes on bothe sydes about thys mariage that had bene before tyme on both sides agreed vppon whiche should be greatly for the wealthes of vs bothe not to make war sure nor ones to be enemie but onely to such as should appere to be the hinderars of so Godly and honorable a purpose euen so accordynge too the promes of the Proclamacion neyther force nor fyer was vsed wyttyngly agaynste ony oother durynge all oure tyme of abode in the countrey howebeit the truthe was soo that hauynge doubt of the warste it was wysely consulted so to go to commune wyth theim as frendes as neuerthelesse if nedes they woolde we myght be able too mete them as foes the which thinge proued after not the wurst point of pollecye But what a maruaylous vnkynd people wear they that whear we came as wooers cumme not ootherwyse but for good looue and quyet they to rceyue vs wyth hatred and war It was too muche vngentlenes and inhumanitee sure in such a case too be shewed Yet since that we so quyt theym their kindnes and departed so litle in their det let vs bear sumwhat wyth them Mary I wotte they wear not all soo well content wyth the paymēt For the Erle Huntley a gentlemā of a great sobriete and very good wit as by hys very presence is halfe vttred beynge askt of a man of estate wyth vs by wey of communicacion as I hard how he bare hys affeccion toward the ioyninge of the two Princes In gude fayth quod he I wade it sud gea furth and hand well wyth the mariage but I lyke not thys wooynge But now least I may worthely be doubted by the plot of my Prologe to haue made the foorme of my booke * Thear is a tale indede beside the Bible that sainct Peter hauinge gottē leaue of our Lord too make a man made one first wyth a very great hed thē with an exceding litle neck and so forthe with such inequalitee of proportion lyke the proportion of sainct Peters man I will here leaue of further proces of Preface and fall to the matter FINIS CERtayn noble men and other beynge speciall officers in thys expedicion THe duke of Somerset my lord Protectors grace general of the armie And Capitayn of the battaile hauing in it iiii M. fotemen The erle of Warwyke lord Lieuetenaūt of the armie and hauyng the foreward of .iii. M footemen The lorde Dacres the rerewarde of .iii. M. footemen The lorde Gray of Wylton lorde lieuetenaunt of Bolleyn hygh Marshall of the armie and Capitayn general of al the horsmen there Syr Raufe Sadleyr knight Treasaurer of the armye Syr Fraunces Bryan knight Capitayn of the light horsemen beynge in number .ii. M. Syr Raufe Uane knight Lieuetenaūt of all the men of armes and dimilaūces beyng in number .iiii. M. Syr Thomas Darcy knight Capitayn of all the kynges Maiestie pēcioners mē of armes Syr Rycharde Lee knighte deuisour of the fortifications to be made Syr Peter Mewtus knight Capitayne of all the hakbutters a foote beyng in number .vi. C. Syr Peter Gamboa knight Spaniarde Capitayne of .ii. C. hakebutters on horsebacke Syr Fraunces Flēmynge knight master of the ordinaunce Syr Iames Wilforde knighte Prouost Marshall Syr George Blaag and Syr Thomas Holcroft Commissioners of the mousters Edwarde Shelley my lord Grays Lieuetenannt of the men of armes of Bulleyn Ihon Bren Capitayne of the Pioners beynge .xiiii. C. Officers vpon the sea ¶ The lorde Clynton lorde Admirall of the flete whiche was of .lxv. vessels whereof the Galley and .xxxiiii. mo good shippes wear perfitly appoynted for warre ▪ and the residue for cariage of municion and vitaile Syr William Woodhouse knight hys Uiceadmirall Thear were in the th armie of great ordinaunce drawen foorth wyth vs by horse .xv. peces And of Cariages .ix. C. cartes besyde many waggens THE Story and proces of the iourney MY lorde Protectours grace Saterday the xxvii of August whome neyther the length nor werines of the way did any whit let spedely to further that he had deliberately taken in hande riding all the way frō Londō his own person in post accompanied wyth my lorde Marshall and syr Fraunces
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
to resist oure powr or saue thēselfs thei pluct in a banner that afore they had set out in defyaūce put out ouer the walles ▪ a whyte lynnē clout tyed on a stickes end criyng al with one tune for mercy but hauyng answer by the whole voice of the assaylers thei were traytors it was to late thei plukt in their stick sticked vp the bāner of defyaunce again shot of hurled stones did what els they could with great courage of their side littel hurt of ours Yet then after being assured by our ernesty that we had vowed the wynning of their holde before our departure then that ther obstinacie coulde deserue no lesse then death pluct in their bāner once again cried vpō mercie beyng generally aunswered nay nay loke neuer for it for ye are erraūt traytors then made they peticiō that if thei should nedes die yet that my lordes grace woulde be so good to thē as thei might be hāged whearby they might sumwhat reconcile thēselfs to God warde not to dye in malice with so great daūger of their soules A pollecy of warre A pollecie sure in my mind though but of grose heddes yet of a fyne deuise Syr Miles Partrich being nie about thys pile at the tyme spiyng one in a red doblet dydges he shuld be an Englishmā therfore cam furthered this peticiō to my lordes grace the rather which then toke effect thei came hūbled thēselfes to hys grace whearupō without more hurt they wear but cōmaunded to the Prouost Marshal My lordes graces pitee It is sūwhat here to cōsider I know not whither the destenie or hap of mās life The more woorthy men the les offēders more in the iudges grace wear slayne the beggers the obstinate rebelles that deserued nought but crueltie wear saued To saye on now the house was soon after so blowē with pouder that more then the one half fell straight doune to rubrish dust the rest stood al to be shaken with riftes chynkes Anderwyke was burned al the houses of office and stakkes of corne about them both While this was thus in hāde my lordes grace in turning but about sawe the fal of Dūglas which likewise was undermined and blowen with pouder This doon about noon we marched on passinge soon after wtin the gūshot of Dūbar a toun stōding lōgwise vpō the seasyde whearat is a castel whiche the Scottes coūt very strōg the sent vs diuers shottes as we passed but al in veyn their horsmē showed thēselfs in their feldes besyde vs toward whom Barteuile with hys .viii ▪ mē all hakbutters on horsbak whome he had right wel appoīted Ihō de Rybaud with diuers other did make but no hurt on neyther side sauing yte a mā of Barteuiles slew one of thē with his pece the skirmish was soon ēded We wēt a iiii mile further hauing trauayled that day a .x. mile we cāped nigh Cātallō had at night a blynde alarme Here had we first aduertisement certein that the Scottes wear assembled in campe at the place whear we found them Wednesdaye the .vii. of September ¶ Marching this mornīg a. ij mile we came to a fayre Ryuer callen Lyn rūning all straight eastwarde toward the sea ouer this Riuer is ther a stone bridge that they name Lyntō brig of a toun therby on our righthād eastward as we went that stōds vpō thesame Ryuer Our horsmen cariages past through the water for it was not very depe our footmē ouer the bridge The passage was very straight for an army therfore the lēgar in settīg ouer Beyōd this bridge about a mile Westward for some thought as then we turned vpon this same Ryuer on the Southsyde stondes a proper house and of sum strengthe bylyke they call it hayles Castell Hayles castel and perteyneth to the erle Bothwel but kept as then by the gouernours appoyntmēt who hylde the erle in pryson Aboue the Southsyde of thys Castell lyeth a long hil Eeast West whearuppon did appere in diuers plumpes about .iii. C. of their prickers sum makynge towarde the passage too lye in wayt ther to take vp straglers and cut of the tayle of our hoste My lordes grace and my lord Lieutenaunt against the Castell vpon an hill ouer whiche we should passe did stay a while aswel for the armie that was not all cum as alsoo too see a skyrmish that sum of these prickers by cūming ouer the Riuer toward vs began to make but did not mainteine Whearupō our foreward marching softly afore hys grace then tooke his way after at whome out of the Castell thear wear roūdly shot of but without hurt vi or .vii. peces the whiche before that thoughe sum of oure men had bene very nye yet kept they all coouert In this mean time did thear aryse a very thicke mist My lord the erle of Warwyke then lorde Lieutenaunt as I tolde you of the armie did so nobly quite himself vpō an aduenture that chaunced then to fal as that his accustumed valiaunce might wel be acknowledged whearby first and first of all men a litle but not without purpose now to digres beynge lorde Lieutenaūt of Bulleyn next after it was wun beaten on al sydes weak without yll harbour within and nowe to say trouth for the daūger is past skante tenable as it was did so valiauntly defende it agaynst the Dolphyn then and all hys power that as I remēbre was reconed a .lii. M. Of whome in a camisado then as they had slayn many of our mē wun the base toun his lordeship killed aboue viii C coūted of the best souldiors in al Fraūce draue the rest away recouered the toun frō them again And the next yere after occupiyng his office of lord Admiral vpon the sea in person himself what tyme the greate fleete of Fraunce with all their Galleys which was no smal pour cam to inuade our costes he profrered battaile vnto the Frenche Admiral all his nauie which fight I will not saye howe cowardly he vtterly refused hys lordship repeiled their force made thē fame to flie bak agaī home with all their bragges cost in vain And thesame yere but with a .vii. M. wherof not v. M. lōded mawgre all Fraūce he burnt Treaport diuers villages thear besyde returned to ship again with the los but of one Dauid Googan no mo And the yere than next M D.xlvi after his diligence so well shewed amōg the rest of the cōmissioners that an honorable and frēdly peace was cōcluded betwene Fraūce vs his lordship was sent ouer by our late souerain lord to receiue the oth of the late Frēch king for cōfirmaciō of the same peace In which iorney how nobly he did aduaūce his port for the kynges Maiesties honour estimaciō of the realme yet not aboue his degre all mē that sawe it will easly confesse with
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
Marshal the other with present mynde courage waerely and quikly continued their coorse towarde thē And my lordes grace then at his place by thordinaūce aloft The enemies were in a fallowe felde wherof the furrowes lay sydelyng towarde our men by the syde of thesame furrowes next vs and a stones cast from them was thear a crosdich or slough which our mē must nedes pas to cum to thē whearin many that could not leap ouer stack fast to no small daunger of theim selues and sum disorder of their fellowes The enemies perceiuing our men faste approche disposed themselues to abyde the brunt and in this order stood still to receyue thē The erle of Anguish next vs in their forewarde as Capitayn of the same with an .viii. M. iiii or .v. peces of ordinaunce on hys right syde and a .iiii. C horsemen on hys lefte Behind him sumwhat Westwarde the gouernour with a .x. M. inlōd men as they call them the choysest men counted of their cōtre And the erle Huntley in the rerewarde wellnie euen with the battaile on the left syde with .viii M. also The iiii.m Irish Archers as a wyng to them both last indede in order first as they sayd that rā a way These battaile rereward wear warded also with their ordinaunce accordinge Edward Shelley Lieutenaunt vnder my lorde Gray of hys bande of Bulleners was the first on our syde that was ouer this slough my lord Gray next and so then after two or thre rākes of the former bandes But badly yet coolde they make their race by reason the furrowes laye trauers to their course That notwithstondynge and thoughe also thei wear nothynge likely well to bee able thus a frunt to cum within them to hurt them aswell because the Scottishmens pykes wear as longe or lēger then their staues as also for that their horses wear all naked without barbes wherof ¶ The exposiciō of the letters of this table A. Signifieth the place we camped in before the battaile B. Our rerewarde C. Our battaile D. Our forewarde E. The square close F. The foot of the hylles syde G. My lorde Protectours grace H. The master of the ordinaunce I. Our horsmen K. The slough L. The lane and the .ii. turf walles M. Their forewarde horsmē by the same N. Their battaile O. Their rerewarde PP The .ii. hillockes before the church Q. Saint Mighels of vndreske R. Muskelborowe S. Their horsmen at the ende of fauxside Bray TTTT Their rewes of tentes V. The turf wall toward the frith VV. Our cariages X. the marish Y. Our galley Z. Edinborow castell ¶ The significaciō of certein other notes Signifieth a footman A horsman A hakbutter a foot A hakbutter on horsback An archer A footman slayn A horsman slayn The fallowe felde whearon their armye stode though thear wear right many among vs yet not one put on forasmuch as at our cumming foorth in the mornīg we loked for nothing les then for battail that daye yet did my lorde and Shelley with the residue so valiauntly and strongly gyue the charge vpō them that whither it wear by theyr prowes or power the left side of the enemies that his lordship did set vpon though their order remayned vnbroken was yet compelled to swey a good wey bak gyue ground largely and all the residue of them besyde to stonde much amased Before this as our men wear well nie at them they stood very braue bragging shaking their pyke pointes criyng cum here loundes cum here tykes cum here heretykes suche lyke as hardely they are fayre mouthed men Thoughe they ment but small humanite ▪ yet shewed thei hereby much ciuilite both of fayre play to warne ear thei strook of formall order to chyde ear they fought Our Captains that wear behinde perceyuinge at eye that both by the vnevinnes of the grounde by the sturdy order of the enemie and for that their fellowes wear so nie straight before them they were not able to ony aduaūtage to mainteine this onset did thearfore according to the deuise in that point appointed turne themselues made a soft retyre vp towarde the hyll agayne Howbeit too Thys secunde Table sheweth the placinge of our footmen the slaughter of Edwarde Shelley and the oother the Retyre of oure bande of horsemen vp to the hil and the breach of array of the straglers from thē But touchyng the exposicion of the notes and letters I refer the reder to the Table before confes the truth sum of the nūber that knue not the prepēsed pollecie of the counsaill in this case made of a sober aduised retyre an hasty temerarious flyght Sound to ony mans ear as it may I shal neuer admit for ony affection towarde coūtree or kyn to be so partial as wil wittingly either bolster the falshod or bery the truthe for honor in myn opiniō the way gotten wear vnworthely wun and a very vyle gain howbeit hereby I cānot count ony lost whear but a fewe leude souldiours ran rashely out of array without standard or Captayn vpon no cause of nede but of a mere vndiscretion madnes A madnes in dede for fyrste the scottes were not able to pursue because they wear footmen thē if they coold what hope by flight so far from home in their enemies londe whear no place of refuge ¶ My lord Marshal Edward Shelley litle Prestō Brampton and Gerningham Bulleners Ratclyf the lord Fitzwaters brother Syr Ihon Cleres son heyr Digges of kēt Ellerker a pēcioner Segraue Of my lorde Protectours bād my lorde Edward hys graces sonne Captain of the same bāde Stāley Woodhous Coonisby Horgill Morris Dennys Arthur and Atkinson with other in the forerāke not being able in this earnst assault both to tende to their fight afore to the retyre behynde the Scottes again wel considering hereby how weak thei remayned caught courage a fresh rā sharply forward vpon them and without ony mercy slewe euery man of our men that abode furthest in prece a .vi. mo of Bulleners and other then I haue here named in all to the number of a xxvi and most part gentlemē My lord Grey yet and my lord Edward as sum grace was returned agayne but neyther all in safetie nor without euident markes they had bene thear for the one with a pyke thrugh the mouth was raced a longe from the tip of the tunge and thrust that way very daungerously more then twoo inches wythin the neck and my lorde Edwarde had hys horse vnder hym with swoordes wounded sore and I thīke to death Lyke as also a litle before this onset Syr Thomas Darcy vpon hys approch to the enemies was strooken glauncing wyse on the ryght syde with a bullet of one of their felde peces and thearby his body broosed wyth the boowynge in of hys harneys hys swoord hiltes broken the forefynger of his right hāde beatē flat Euen so vppon the partynge of thys fray was Syr Arthur Darcy slasht at
with swoordes and so hurt vppon the weddyng fynger of hys righte hande also as it was counted for the fyrst parte of medecine too haue it quite cut awaye About the same time certein of the Scottes ran out hastely to the kynges Maiesties standerde of the horsmen the whiche syr Androwe Flammak bare and laiyng fast holde vpon the staf thearof cryed a kyng a kynge That if both his strength hys hart and hys horse had not ben good and hereto sumwhat ayded at this pinch by sir Raulph Coppinger a pencioner bothe he had bene slain and the standerd lost whiche the Scottes neuertheles hilde so fast that they brake and bare away the nether ende of the staff to the burrel intended so much to the gayne of the stāderd that syr Androw as hap was skaped home all safe and els without hurt At this bysines also was my lord Fitzwaters Captain of a number of dimilaunces vnhorste but soone mounted againe skaped yet in great daunger and hys horse al he wē Hereat further wear Cauarley the standard bearer of the men of armes and Clemēt Paston a pēcioner thrust eche of them into the leg with pykes and Don Philip a Spaniard in the knee diuers other mayned and hurt and many horses sore woūded besyde ¶ By this tyme had our forewarde accordingly gotten the full vaūtage of the hilles side and in respect of their march stood sydeling toward the enemie Who neuertheles wear not able in all partes to stonde full square in array by reason that at the West ende of theim vpon their right hand and toward the enemie thear was a square plot enclosed with turfe as their maner of fencynge in thoose partes is one corner whearof did let the square of the same arraye Our battaile in good order next theim but so as in continaunce of array the former parte thearof stood vpon the hilles syde the tayle vpon the playn And the rerewarde hoolly vppon the playn So that by the placing and countenaunce of oure armye in this wyse wee shewed ourselues in a maner to cumpas them in that they shoolde no way skape vs the whiche by our poure and number we wear as well able to doo as a spynners webbe to catche a swarme of bees Howebeit for hart and courage we ment too mete wyth them had they bene as many mo These vndiscrete gadlinges that so fondly brake array from the horsmen in the retyre as I sayde ran so hastely thrughe the orders and rankes of our forewarde as it stood that it did both ther disorder many feared many was great encouraging to the enemie My lorde Lieutenaūt who had the gyding of our forewarde right valiauntly had conducted the same to their stōdynge and thear did very nobly encourage comfort thē Bidding them plucke vp their hartes shew thēselfes mē for thear was no cause of fear asfor victorie it was in their oun handes if they did abyde by it he himself euen thear woold lyue and dye amōg them And surely as hys wurthines allwayes right well deserueth so was hys honour at that tyme accordingly furnished with wurthy Captains First syr Ihon Lutterel who had the leading of a .iii. C. of hys lordships mē that wear the formost of thys forewarde all with harneys weapon and in all pointes els so well trimmed for war that lyke as at that tyme I coulde well note my lordes great cost and honour for that their choyse and perfect appointment and furniture so did I then also cōsider syr Ihon Luttrels proowes and wisedom for their valiaunt conductiō and exact obseruaunce of order whom knowynge as I knowe for his witmanhod good qualitees aptnes to all gentle feates besyde I haue good cause to counte both a good Captaī a warfare in feld and a wurthy courtyar in peace at home I mean suche a one as Cōte Balthazar the Italian in his boke of Courtyar doth frame Then in the same forwarde Syr Morrice Dēnis another Captain who wysely first exhortyng his men to play the mē shewing thearby the assuraunce of victorie then to the entent they shoolde be sure he woold neuer shrīke from theim he did with no les wurship then valiaunce in the hottest of this bysines alight amōg them and put hys horse from hym But if I shoold as cause I confesse thear wear inough make here ony stay in hys commendacion thearfore or of the forwarde courage of Syr George Hawarde whoo bere the Kynges Maiesties standarde in the battaile or of the circumspect diligence of syr William Pykering and Syr Rychard Wingfeld Sargeaūtes of the band to the foreward or of the prōpt forwardnes of Syr Charles Brādō another Captain ther or of the peinful industrie of syr Iames Wilford Prouost Marshal who placed himselfe with the formost of thys forewarde or of the good order in march of syr Hugh Willoughby and William Dēnis esquyer captaīs both or of the present hart of Ihon Chaloner a Captain also in the battail or of honest respect of Edward Chāberlayn gētlemā harbynger of the armie who willingly as then came in order with the same foreward Or of right many other in both these battailes for I was not nie the rereward whose behauours wurthynes wear at the tyme notable in myne eye although I neither knue then al of thē I saw nor coold not since remēber of thē I knue I mought wel be in dout it shold be to much an intricaciō to the matter to great a tediousnes to the reder And therfore to say on The Scottes wear sūwhat disordred with their cūminge out about the slaughter of our men the which thei did so earnestly then entēd thei toke not one to mercie but more thei wear amased at this aduētorous hardy onset My lordes grace hauing before this for the causes aforesayde placed himselfe on thys Fauxsyde Bray and thearby quikly perceyuynge the great disorder of these stragling horsmen hemd them in frō further straiyng whom syr Rafe Uane soon after with great dexterite brought in good order and array agayn And thearwith the rest of our strengths by the pollecie of my lordes grace and diligence of euery Captain and officer bysyde wear so oportunely and aptly applyed in their feat that whear this repulse of the enemie retyre of vs was douted of many to turne to the daunger of our los the same was wrought and aduaunced accordynge as it was deuysed to our certeinte of gayn and victorie For first at this sloughe whear most of our horsmē had stond syr Peter Mewtus Captain of all the hakbutters a foot did very valiauntly conduct place a good number of hys men in a maner harde at the faces of the enemies Wherunto Syr Peter Gamboa a Spanyard Captain of a .ii. C. hakbutters on horsback did redily bring his mē also whoo with the hot cōtinuaūce of their shot on both partes did so stoutly stay the enemies that thei could not well cum forther forward then our
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