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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	island_n	lie_v	south_n	5,603	5	9.7081	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09164	The expedicion into Scotla[n]de of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward, Duke of Soomerset, vncle vnto our most noble souereign lord ye ki[n]ges Maiestie Edvvard the. VI. goouernour of hys hyghnes persone, and protectour of hys graces realmes, dominions [and] subiectes made in the first yere of his Maiesties most prosperous reign, and set out by way of diarie, by W. Patten Londoner.	Patten, William, fl. 1548-1580.	1548 (1548)	STC 19476.5; ESTC S114184	77,214	314

mooued that rather to thinke so bycaus sum of their crosses wear so narrowe so singly set on that a puff of wynde might haue blowē thē frō their brestes that thei wear found right often talkīg with the Skottish prikkers wtin les then their gads length a sunder when thei perceiued thei had bene spied thei haue begun one to run at another but so apparauntly perlassent as the lookers on resembled their chasyng like the running at base in an vplondish toun whear the match is made for a quart of good ale or like the play in Robin Cooks skole whear bicaus the punics may lerne thei strike fewe strokes but by assent appointemēt I hard sum men say it did mooch augment their suspiciō that wey bicaus at the battail thei sawe these prikkers so badly demean them more intēding the takīg of prisoners then the suerty of victorie for while oother men fought they fell to their prey that as thear wear but few of them but brought home his prisoner so wear thear many that had .vi. or .vii. Many men yet I must cōfes ar not disposed all weys to say all of the best but more redy haply to fynde oothers mēs fautes then to amend their oun Howbeit I thīke sure as for our prikkers yf their fautes had bene fewer their infamye had bene les yet say I not this so moch to disprais them as for mean of amēdement Their Captains and gentlemen again ar men for the most part al of right honest seruice and approoued prowes such sure as for their well dooing woold soon becum famous yf their souldiours wear as toward as thēselues be forward As thyngs fell after in communicacion one question amōg oother arose who kyld the first man this day in felde the glorie whearof one Ieronimo an Italian woold fayn haue had howbeit it was after well tryed that it was one Cuthbert Musgraue a gentlemā of my lord of War wykes who right hardely kyld a Gūner at his pece in the Scottes foreward ear euer they begon ony whit to turne the fact for the forwardnes well deseruyng remembraūce I thought it not mete to be let slip in silence This nyght the Skottish goouernor when he thought ones him self in sum safetie with all spede caused the erle Bothwel to be let out of prisō which whither he did for the doubt he had that we woold haue releaced him wild he nild he or whither he woold shew hīself fayn to doo sumwhat before the peple to make sum amendes of his former faut I doo not knowe but this sure rather for sū caus of fear then for ony good will whiche was well apparaunt to all men in that he had kept the erle so long before in hold with out ony iust caus Sonday the xi of september ¶ In the morenyng a great sort of vs rode to the place of onset whear our mē lay slayn and what by gentlemē for their frēdes and seruaūtes for their Masters al of thē that wear knowē to be ours wear buried In the mean time the Master officers of the ordinaūce did very diligētly get to gyther all the Skottish ordinaūce which bycaus it lay in sundry places thei could not inne all ouer night And these wear in nūber a xxx peces whearof one culuerine .iii. sacres ix smaller peces of bras of iron 17. peces mo moūted on cariage These thinges thus done sūwhat a fore none our cāpe reysed we marched alōg the Fryth syde straight toward Lyeth approchīg me the same about iii. of the clok in thafter none we pyght our fyeld a prikshot on thissyde the toun being on the southest half sumwhat shadowed frō Edinborowe by a hill but the most of it liyng wtin the ful sight shot of the castell thear in distaunce sumwhat abooue a quarter of a mile My lordes grace garded but with a small cūpeny was cūmē to Lyeth well nie half an hour before the armie the whiche he found all desolate of resistaūce or ony body els Thear wear in the hauen that runneth into the mids of the roun vessels of diuers sortes a xiii Sumwhat of ode wynes wainskot and salt wear found in the toun but as but litle of that so nothīg els of value for how much of oother things as could wel be caried the inhabitauntes ouernight had pact awei with them My lord Marshall and most of our horsmen wear bestowed lodged in the toun my lordes grace my lord Lietenaunt the rest of th armie in the campe Monday the xii of september ¶ This day my lordes grace with the counsell and sir Rychard Lee rode about that toun to the plottes and hilloks on eyther syde nie to it to viewe consider whither the same by byldyng might be made tenable and defensible ¶ Certayne of our smaller vessels burnt Kynkorne and a toun or twoo mo stondyng on the northe shore of the Frith against Lyeth Tuysday the xiii of september In the after noon my lords grace rowed vp the Fryth a .vi. or .vii. myles westward as it runneth into the land and took in his way an Iland thear called sainct Coomes Ins which stōdeth a .iiii. mile beyōd Lieth and a good wey nerar the north shore then the south yet not wtin a mile of the nerest It is but half a myle about and hath in it a prety Abbey but the moōks wear gone fresh water inough and also coonyes and is so naturally strong as but by one way it can be entred The plot whear of my lordes grace consideryng did quikly cast to haue it kept whearby al traffik of marchaūdise all cōmodities els commyng by the Fryth into their land vtterly the hole vse of the Fryth it self with all the hauens vppon it shoold quyte be taken from them Wednesday the .xiiii. of september ¶ This day my lords grace tidyng bak again Estward to vyew diuers things and places tooke Dakyth in his way whear a howse of George Douglasses dooth stande and commyng sumwhat nere it he sent Soomerset his herald with a trompet before to knowe whoo kept it and whether the kepers holde it or yelde it to his grace Aunswere was made that thear was a .lx. parsons within whoom their maister liyng thear the saterday at night after the batell dyd will that they the hous and all that was in yt shoolde be at my lordes graces commaundement and pleasure Whear vppon the chefest came out and in the name of all the rest humbled hymself vnto my Lords will proferynge his grace in his Masters name diuers fayr goshaukes the whiche my Lords grace how nobly soeuer he listed to shew mercy vpō submissiō yet vttering a more maiestie of honor then to base his generositie to the reward of his enemie did but not cōtemptuosly refuse and so without cūmyng in past by and rode to the place whear the battell was begun to be strooken the whiche hauyng a

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