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
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
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
but then am in doubte what to make of hym a he saint a she sainte or a neuter for we haue all in oure Kallendar Of the male and female sayntes euery leafe thear showthe samples inowe And as for the neuter they or rather I wot vnmarked theÌ„ vnknoweÌ„ as sainct Christmas s. CaÌ„delmas sainct Easter Sainct Whitsontide swete sainct Sunday that cums ones a weke Touchynge my doubte nowe If the day beare name in the woorship memorie of hym whome the preacher Horace doth meÌ„cion in his first booke of sermons by these wordes Pastillos Rufillus olet Satyr ii Phorcê° king of the Iles Corsica Sardinia had foure daughters Scylla Medusa Stenio Euriale called Gorgons of whome as Neptune had rauished Medusa Gorgon in the temple of Pallas This Goddes for displeasure of the fact chauÌ„ged al the heare of her hed into snakes and adders gaue her a further gyft that who so euer sawe her should be turned straighte into stone Perseus coueityng to kil this monster borowed of Mercurie his wyngs and faulchion and strooke of her hed as she slepte brought it with hym which Pallas dyd after set in her shelde it had the same pour still after as it had whyle she lyued Gorgonius hircum then may we be bold to beleue it was a he saiÌ„ct but yet a very sloouen saynt belyke a nesty If this name were Kallendred of Medusa Gorgon that had the heare of her hed tourned into adders whome Perseus ouercame and kylde as doctour Ouide declares in his .iiii. booke of chaunges Gorgonis anguicomae Perseus superator then maye we be sure it was a she saynte But yf it wear in the honour of Pallas shelde whearin thys Medusa GorgoÌ„s hed was graueÌ„ as Titus * Stroz. prÌ„ Aeolo .iiii. Stroza a deuout doctour to but of later daies doth say Gorgonis anguicomae caelatos aegide vultus Pallas habet Then was it neyther a he nor a she but a playne neuter saynte And thus with the aunciente authoritie of mere poeticall scriptures my conscience is so confounded as I wot not in the worlde what saynte to make of hym ‡ Iacob de voragine Iames of the synkhole sauyng your reuerence a trier forsooth that wrote the Legendaurie telleth me a very preposterous order in good cookerie of one * Legend autea cap. cxxviii GorgoÌ„ his fellow Dorotheus that wear first sauced with vineger and salt and after the then broiled on a girdyroÌ„ But to be playn as it is best for a man to be with his freÌ„des he hath farced hys boke so full of lyes that it is quite out of credite in al honest coÌ„pany And for my part I am half a shamed to say that I saw it but synce it is sayd sumwhat to tell you what that I sawe Thom. CaÌ„tuar ca. xi Lupus ca. cxxiii Petr. exorcist cap. lxxiiii Thaismere trix cap. cxlvii he makes me Thomas the traytour Lupus the Lechour Peter the knaue yf I may call a coÌ„iurer so Thais the hoor all to be hye holye sainctes in heaueÌ„ that with such prodigal impudeÌ„cie so shameles liyng as I may safely thinke he had eyther a Bul to make sainctes of diuels or els a placarde to play the knaue as he list But as for Gorgon be he as he be may yt makes no great matter for he shal haue my hart while he stoÌ„des in the kallender he hath bene euer so lucky But what saynte so euer he bee he is sure no Scottes mans frend but a very angry sainte towarde them for vpon hys daye .xxxiiii. yere paste they had a greate ouerthrowe by vs at Floddom feld and their kyng Iamy the fourth slayn and thearfore is this day not smally markt among them To tell our aduentures that befell now vpon it I thinke it very mete that fyrste I aduertise how here as we lay our campe and theirs wear eyther within the sight viewe of oothers indistauÌ„ce as I gest a .ii. myle litle more a sunder we had the Fryth on the north this hil last remembred as I sayd on the south the west ende Whereof is called Fauxsyde Bray Fauxsyde Bray whereupon staÌ„deth a sory castell and half a skore houses of lyke woorthines by yt And had westward before vs the liyng in campe A long this hill beinge aboute a mile from vs were they very bisy prankyng vp and doune all the motenyng and fayne would haue bene a counsayll with the doinges of our campe We agayne because their armie semed to sit to receyue vs dyd diligentely prepare that we might soon go to them and therefore kept our campe all that daye my lordes grace and the counsaill sittyng in coÌ„sultacion the captains officers prouidyng their bandes store of vitaile furniture of weapon for furtheraunce whearof our vessels of municioÌ„ and vitailes wear here all redy come to the shore The Scottes continued their brauerie on the hill the whiche we not being so well able to beare made oute a band of light horsmeÌ„ a troop of dimilaunces to back theÌ„ our men gat vp on the hill therby of euen ground with the enemye rode straight towarde them with good spede and order Whome at the first the Scottes did boldly countenaunce abyde but after when their perceyued that our men woulde nedes cum on thei began to pricke and would fayn haue begon ear they had tolde their erraund but our meÌ„ hasted so spedely after that eueÌ„ straight thei wear at their elbowes and did so stoutly then bestur them that what in the onset at the first and after in the chase which lasted a .iii. mile wellny to as far as the furthest of their campe on the southsyde they had kylde of the Scottes within a iii. houres abooue the number of xiii C. takeÌ„ the master of Hume the lord Humes sun and heyr .ii. prestes vi gentlemeÌ„ whearof one I remeÌ„ber by syr Iaques Granado and all vpon the hyest well me niest of the hill toward them within the full sight of their hole campe Of oure syde agayne one spanish hakbutter hurt and taken Sir Rafe Bullmer knyght Thomas Gower Marshal of Berwyke and Robart Crouch all Captains of seuerall bandes of our lighthorsmen and men of right good coorage approued seruice at this tyme distrest by their awne forwardnes not by the enemies force ¶ After this skirmish it was marueiled on their syde that we vsed so much crueltie douted on ours that wee had kylde so many Their marueyle was aunswered that they had pict the quarell first them selues shewed vs a presidente at paniarhough wher of late yeres wtout any mercie they slewe the lorde Euers a greate cumpenie with hym our dout was clered by the witnes of their oun selues who confessed that thear wear ii made out of their caÌ„pe .xv. C horsmeÌ„ for skirmish .v. C. foot men to lye
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
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.
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
a * Hys name was Cyrus nephew of hys as yet then vngotten vnborne and lose his kyngdome and this by a dreame also wherin he thought there spraÌ„g out of the woÌ„be of hys doughter MaÌ„dane a vyne by the spreadinge of whose braunches all Asie was shadowed Ioseph de antiquit Li xvii ca. vltimo And howe Archelaus kyng of Cappadocia was warned afore of hys banishment out of hys couÌ„trey and kyngdome by his dreame of .x. wheat eares full type that wear eaten of Oxen and hereto the multitude of ensamples beside touching this case in Tully Valerius Maximus De Diuin i Valer. li. i. ca. vii Plin. devir illust capi xxvi Cael. antiq lect li. xiiii capi xlii Sueton. in Domitian capi xxiii Plinie the secunde Celius Rediginus Suetonius and in infinitie other aucthors mo they should be to cuÌ„berous irksum bothe for me to write and you to rede The naturall cause of whiche kynde of propheciynge as I may call it whyther it come as Astronomers hold opinion by the influence of the ayre or by constellacion or els by sobrietie of dyet and peculiar to the MelaÌ„cholycke Socra apud Plat. de Rep. ix both as Plato and also Phisicians affirme or by gift of God as diuines iudge I trust I shal be borne with all thoughe I do not here take vpon me to discus but leaue it for a doubt among theim as I found it Yet that thear is such dignitie and diuinitie in mans soule as sometyme in dreams we be warned of thinges to come both the learninge of auncient Philosophers Iambl inde Mister Aegipt Mercur. in Pymand Plotinus Iamblicus Mercurius Trismegistus with many other dooth auowe holy scripture and prophane stories do proue daily exsperience to theym that doo marke it doeth also shewe But to thys nowe that my lordes grace dreamt one thing and the contrary came to passe writers vppon exposicion of dreams and specially Artemidorus do make .ii. special kind of dreams Li. i. ca. ii the one Speculatiue whereby we see thinges the nexte daye after for the moste parte muche lyke as wee sawe them in dream thother Allegoryke whiche warneth vs as it were by ridddell of thynges more then a day at the least after to come And in these Allegoryke dreams he saith the head betokeneth the father the foote the seruaunt the righthand signifieth the mother the lefte the wyfe Li. ii cap i. lxv and so furth And somtyme one contrary is ment by an other as to seme for some cause to wepe or be sory is a tokeÌ„ of gladnes to come and agayn to ioy muche is a signe of care Li. iii. cap. xxvii Li. iiii ca. iii. to se foule water commynge into the house a signe to se the house burning Apollonides a surgion thought he went out and wounded many and sone after he healed many Of which sort of dreames thys of my lordes grace was that shewed he had done nothynge and signified as we maye nowe be holde to conster he should do so much as were skant possible to doo more Howbeit as I wolde haue no man so muche to note esteme dreams as to thike ther are none vayn but al significatiue a thing in dede both foÌ„dly superstitious against the mind of God vttred in the olde law Deut. xviii So woulde I haue no man so much to coÌ„teÌ„ne theÌ„ as to thinke we can at no tyme bee warned by theÌ„ a thinge also both of to much incredulite against the promis of God rehersed in the new law by Peter out of the prophet Iohel Act. ii Iohel ii But least with my dreames I bring you a stepe I shal here leaue them begin to March with the armie Sundaye the iiii of SepteÌ„ber My lordes grace came from out of the toune the army reised from out of the campe And after disposicion of order that syr FrauÌ„ces Bryan the Capitain of lightt orlinen with a .iiii. C. of his baÌ„de should tende to the skout a mile or .ii. before The cariages to kepe a long by the sea coaste And the meÌ„ of armes dimilauÌ„ces diuided in to .iii. tropes auÌ„swering the .iii. wardes so to ryde in array directly against the cariages a .ii. flight shot a sunder froÌ„ theÌ„ Our thre battails kept order in pace betwene theÌ„ both The foreward foremost the battaile in the middest the rerewarde hindermost eche warde his troop of horsmeÌ„ garde of ordinauÌ„ce eche pece of ordinauÌ„ce his aide of Pioners for amendement of ways where nede shoulde be founde We marched a .vi. mile camped by a village called Roston in the Baronrie of BonkeÌ„dale We marched an .viii. mile til we came to a place called the Peaths Mundaye the v. of September It is a valey The Peaths ruÌ„ning froÌ„ a .vi. mile West straight Eastwarde and toward the sea a .xx a .xx. skore brode from banke to banke aboue and a .v. skore in the bottom wherein runnes a litle riuer So stepe be these baÌ„kes on eyther syde and depe to the bottom that who goeth straight doune shal be in daunger of tumbling the commer vp so sure of puffyng payne for remedie wherof the trauailers that way haue vsed to pas it not by going directly but by paths footways leading stopewise of the number of which paths they call it somwhat nicely in dede the Peaths A Brute a day or .ii. before was spred emong vs that hereat the Scottes were very busy a working how here we should be stayde met withal by theÌ„ wherunto I harde my lordes grace vow that he wold put it in profe for he wolde not step one foote out of his course appointed At oure comming we found all in good peace howbeit the syde wayes on either side most vsed for eas were crost and cut of in many places with the castyng of trauers trenches not very depe in dede and rather somwhat hinderyng then vtterly letting for whither it were more by pollecie or diligence as I am sure neyther of bothe did want the ways by the Pioners were sone so well plained that our army caryage and ordenaunce were quite set ouer sone after sun set and there as then we pight out campe But while our armie was thus in passynge my lordes grace willynge to loose no tyme and that the enemies aswel by dede as by brute should know he was come sent an Heraulde to summon a Castell of George Douglash called DuÌ„glas Dunglas that stode at the ende of the same valey nerer the sea and a mile froÌ„ the place of our passage The Capitain therof Matthew Hume a brothers son of the lord Humes vpoÌ„ this summons requyred to speake wyth my lordes grace it was grauÌ„ted he came To whom ê™ his grace Since it cannot be but that ye must be witting both of our coÌ„myng into these partes of our Proclamacion sent hyther before proclaymed also since and
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
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
me that it was to much then to be shewed in few woordes here Uery few thinges els to say truth that haue bene ony wher in these warres agaiÌ„st the enemie eyther nobly attempted or valiauntly acheued whearin his lordship hath not bene eyther the first ther in office or one of the foremost in daunger That if it fel so fete for my purpose to speake of his lordships honour at home as it hath doon sumwhat to touch his proowes abrode I coulde sure for commeÌ„dacion thearof moue my self matter wherin I wear able to sai rather liberally much then skarcely inough but omittiÌ„g that thearfore to turne to my tale agaiÌ„ his lordship regarding the dauÌ„ger our rerewarde was in by reason of disorder caused at this passage by the thicknes of this mist nienes of the enemies himselfe skant with a .xvi. horse wherof Barteuile Ihon de Ribaude wear .ii vii or .viii. light horsemen mo the reste of his own seruauntes returned towarde the passage to see to the arraye agayne The Scottes perceyuyng our horsemeÌ„ to haue past on before thinkiÌ„g as the truth was that sum Capitain of honour did stay for the lookynge to the order of thys rerewarde kepinge the Southsyde of the Ryuer did call ouer to sum of our meÌ„ to knowe whither ther wear ony noble man nie thear they wear askt why they askt one of theÌ„ aunswered that he was such a maÌ„ whose name our meÌ„ knew to bee honorable among theÌ„ woold cum in to my lordes grace so that he mought be sure to cum in safetie our yooÌ„g souldiours nothing suspecting their auncieÌ„t falshed tolde him that my lorde LieutenauÌ„t the erle of Warwyke was nie thear by whose tuicioÌ„ he shuld be safely broughte to my lordes graces presence thei had cund their lesson fel to their practise which was this hauing cuÌ„meÌ„ ouer the water in the way as my lorde should passe they had couched behinde a hillok about a .ii. C. of their prickers a .xl. had they sent besyde to search whear my lord was whom wheÌ„ thei fouÌ„d part of them prickt very nie these agayne a .x. or .xii. of my lordes small coÌ„panie did boldly encouÌ„ter draue theÌ„ wellnie home to their ambush fliynge perchauÌ„ce not so much for fear of their force as for falshod to trap theÌ„ But hereby enformed that my lord was so nie they sent out a bigger nuÌ„ber kept the rest more secret vpon this purpose that they might eyther by a playn onset haue distrest him or els that not preuaylinge by feyning of flight to haue trayned him into their ambushe thus instruct they cam prickiÌ„g toward hys lordshippe a pace why ê™ he wil not these knaues be ruled geue my staff the which then with so valiaunt a corage he charged at one as it was thought DaÌ„dy Car a Capitayn among theÌ„ that he did not onely coÌ„pel Car to turne him self chased him aboue .xii. skore together all the way at the spear point so that if Carres horse had not ben exceding good wight his lordship had surely ruÌ„ him thrugh in this race but also with his litle bande caused all the rest to flee a main After whom then as Henry Uane a gentlemaÌ„ of my lordes one of this coÌ„pany did fiersly pursue foure or .v. scottes sodeÌ„ly turned set vpoÌ„ him though thei did not alltogether skape his haÌ„des free yet by hewyng maÌ„gling hys hed body many places els they did so cruelly entreat him as if reskue had not cum the sooner thei had slaiÌ„ him out right but saued as he was I dare be bolde to sai many a M. in war els whear haue dyed with les then half the les hurt Here was Barteuile run at sydeling and hurt in the buttok one of our men slayn Of Scottes again none slaiÌ„ but .iii. takeÌ„ whearof one was Richarde Maxwell hurt in the thigh who had bene long in EngloÌ„d not loÌ„g before had receyued right many benefites as I harde himself coÌ„fesse both of the late kinges Maiestie of my lord LieutenauÌ„t of many other nobles geÌ„tlemen in the court beside thearfore for his ingratitude trayterous vntruth threatened too be haÌ„ged But as otherwise he had a great dele to much more then he deserued so had he here sumwhat to litle for how my lordes grace bestowed hym I wot not but hanged in dede he was not To make my tale per fit it is certeinly thought that if my lorde Lieutenaunt had not thus valiauÌ„tly encountred theÌ„ ear thei coulde haue warned their ambushe how weakly he was warded he had bene beset rouÌ„d about by theÌ„ ear euer he could haue bene ware of theÌ„ or reskued of vs wher now hereby his Lordeship shewed hys wooÌ„ted woorthines saued hys cuÌ„panie discoÌ„fited the enemie Soon after he ouertooke my lord Protectour being as then set at dyner to whom he presented these prisoners recounted hys adueÌ„tures whose grace in the mean tune had hapt vpoÌ„ a fellowe lyke a man but I wot not of what sorte smal of stature red hedded curld rounde about shedded afore of a .xl. yere old calde himself Knockes To say sumwhat of his hauour his cote was of the coulor of a wel burnt brik I meaÌ„ not blak wel worth xx d a brode yarde it was pretely fresed half with an ado heÌ„med rouÌ„d about very sutably with pasmaiÌ„ lace of grene caddis me thought he represented the state of a suÌ„ner in sum citee or of a pedler in sum boorowe how far so euer he had trauayled that day he had not a whit fyled his bootes for he had none on harmles bilyke for he ware no weapon he rode on a trottynge tyt well woorth a coople of shillynges the loss whereof at his takyng he toke very heuely yet did my lordes grace caus him to be set on a better I take his learning was but smal but his vttraunce was greate sure for he neuer lind babeling very moyst mouthed and somewhat of nature disposed to slauer and therfore fain without a napkin to wype hys lyppes to suppe at euery woord sum said it was no faut in the man but the maner of the cuntree in dede they haue many moyst mystes thear no lak of audacity nor store of wit for beynge taken brought in for a spie posed in that pointe whyther he went neither by the honestie of hys erraunde nor goodnes of his wit was he able to make ony lykely excuse the tenoure of his talke so tempred thoorow out and the most of hys matter so indifferently mingled as yf they make hym not bothe it was harde for any theare to iudge whether they might rather counte hym a folish knaue or a knauishe foole at whome my lordes grace and other had right good sport As Barteuile that day had righte honestly serued so did the lordes righte honorably quite yt for straight vpon the ouertakynge of my
close in ambush and be redy at nede and of all these for certain not .vii. huÌ„dred to retourne home After this skirmish also hard we The lord Hume hurt that the lorde hume him self for hast in this flight had a fall from his horse and burst so the canell bone of his neck that he was fayn to be caryed straight to Edenborowe and was not a litle despayred of life Then also my lordes grace my lorde Lieutenaunte other of the counsel but with a small garde vpoÌ„ this Fauxsyd Bray where the slaughter as I said was made aboute halfe a myle southeast from them dyd take full viewe of their campe whereof the tentes as I noted then were deuided in to .iiii. seuerall orders and rewes liynge east west and a prikshot a sunder moustred not vnlyke as thought me vnto four great ridges of rype barly The Scottes campe The plot whear they lay so chosen for strength as in all their cuntrey sum thought not a better safe on the south by a greate marysh and on the north by the Fryth whiche syde also they fenced with .ii. felde peces and certeyn hakbuts a crok liynge vnder a turf wal EdeÌ„borowe on the west at their backes eastward betwene vs and them strongly defended by the course of a Ryuer called Eske runnyng north in to the Fryth whiche as yt was not very depe of water so wear the bankes of it so hie and stepe after the maner of the Peaths mencioned before in our mundais iourney as a small sort of resistauntes might haue bene able to kepe doun a great number of cummers vp Aboute a xii skore of from the Fryth ouer the same Ryuer is thear a stone bridge whiche thei did kepe also wel warded with ordinaunce FroÌ„ this hil of Fauxsyde Bray descended my lordes grace my lord Lieutenaunt and thoother along before their caÌ„pe wtin les then ii flightshottes into a lane or strete of a .xxx. foot brode fenced on eyther syde with a wall of turf an elle of height whiche wey dyd lead straigth northwarde and nie to a church called saint Mighels of Undreske stondynge vpon a mean risyng hill sumwhat higher then the site of their campe Thus this viewed they toke their returne directly homewarde to our teÌ„tes at whom in the way the Scottes did often shoot but with al their shot and of all our cumpenie they kylde but one horse in the midst of .iii. without ony hurt of the rider 〈…〉 ¶ And as my lordes grace was passed well nie half the way homeward a Scottish herauld with a cote of hys princes armes vpoÌ„ him as the maner is and with him a trumpetour did ouertake his grace we thought vpon sum message and thearfore euery maÌ„ gaue them place to cum saye their erraundes which as I mought ges partly by the aunswers as followe wear these The herauldes message or to this effect The heraulde first my lorde the Gouernor hath seÌ„t me to your grace to enquere of prisoners takeÌ„ and thear with to say that for the pitee he hath of effusioÌ„ of Christen bloude whiche by battaile must nedes be shed and bicause your grace hath not doen much hurt in the cuntree he is content ye shall returne as ye cam and wil proffer your grace honest condicions of peace And then the trumpetour The trumpetours errauÌ„d My lord my Master the earle of Huntley hath willed me to shewe your grace that bicause this matter may be the sooner ended with les hurt he wil fight with your grace for the hole quarell .xx. to xx.x. to .x. or els hymselfe alone with your grace man to man My lordes grace hauyng kept with him my lord Lieutenaunt had harde them both thrughly and then in aunsweryng spake sumwhat with lowder voice theÌ„ they had doon their messages whear vpon wee that wear the ryders by thynkyng his grace woulde haue it no secret wear sumwhat the bolder to cum the nigher The woordes whearof as semed me wear vttred so expeditely with honour and so honourable with expedicion as I was for my part much mooued then to dout whyther I mought rather note in them the proÌ„ptnes of a singuler prudeÌ„ce or the animositee of a noble coorage And thei wear thus your goouernour may knowe My lordes graces aunswers To the herauld that the speciall cause of our cummyng hyther was not to fight but for the thynge that shoulde be the weale of both vs and you for God we take to recorde wee mynd no more hurt to the Ream of Scotlande then we doo too the Ream of England thearfore our quarel beyng so good we truste God will prosper vs the better But as for peace he hath refused such condicions at our handes as we will neuer proffer again and thearfore let hym look for none til this wey we make it ¶ And thou Trumpet To the trumpetour say to thy Master he semeth to lak wit to make this challenge to me beynge of suche estate by the sufferaunce of GOD as haue so weighty a charge of so precious a iewel the goouernaunce of a kyngs parson and then the protection of all his reames whearby in this case I haue no powr of my self which yf I had as I am true gentleman it shoulde be the first Bargain I would make but thear be a great sort here amonge vs his equals to whom he mought haue made this challenge with out refusal ê™ my lord Lieutenaunt to them both he sheweth his small wit to make challeÌ„ge to my lords grace he so mean but yf his grace will geue me leaue I shall receiue it trumpet bryng me worde thy master wil so doo and thou shalt haue of me a C. crownes Nay quod my lordes grace the erle huntley is not mete in estate with you my lord But heraulde say to the gouernour and hym also that we haue bene a good seasoÌ„ in this cuÌ„trey Sober is the proper terme whearby the Scottes doo signifie smal litle easy or slender and ar here now but with a sobre cumpenie they a greate number yf they will mete vs in felde they shal be satisfied with fightynge ynough And heraulde bryng me worde they wil so doo by my honour I will geue the a thousand crounes Ye haue a proude sorte amonge you but I truste to see their pride abated shortly of the erle huntleys too iwys his corage is knoweÌ„ wel ynough but he is a glorious yoong gentleman This sayd my lord Lieutenaunt coÌ„tinued his requestes that he might receyue this challenge but my lordes grace woulde in no wyse graunte too it these messagers had their aunswers and thear with leaue to depart ¶ It is an auncient order in wâ—t inuiolably obserued that the herauldes trumpetours at ony tyme vpon necessarie messages may freely pas too and fro betwene the enemies without hurt or stay of ony as priuileged with a certein immunitee freedoÌ„ of passage
Lykewise as duryng the time of ony such message hostilitee on both sydes should vtterly ceas The Scottes notwithstōding what mooued them I knowe not but sumwhat bisyde the rules of Stans puer ad mensam shot iii. or .iiii. shot at vs in the midst of this message dooīg but as hap was wyde inough On the morowe after thei had their gunnes taken from them euery chone put into the hādes of them that coulde vse them more with good maner ¶ It becummeth not me I wot apertly to tax their goouernour with the note of dissimulaciō for how euer he be our enemy yet a mā of honorable esiat woorthy for ought I knowe of the office he beares Howbeit touchyng this message sent by the heraulde to say as I thinke I am fully persuaded he neuer sent it either bicaus he thought it would be receyued by my lordes grace whoo 's coorage of custume he knue to be suche that would neuer brook so much dishonour as to trauaile so far to returne in vain or els that he mēt ony sparing or pitee of vs whō ī his hart he had al redy deuoured But only to shewe a colour of kindnes by the refusal whearof he might firste in hys sighte the more iustely as he shoulde lyst vse extremitee against vs and then vpō victorie triumph with more glorie For asfor of victorie he thought hymself no les sure then he was sure he was willynge to fyght That makes me in this case nowe to be so quite oute of doute wear the causes whearof I was after so certeinly enformed And they were firste his respecte of our onely strength as he thought our horsmen the which not so much vpon pollecie to make his men hardy agaynste vs as for that he plainly so took it he caused to be published in his hoste that it was hooly but of very yoong men vnskilfull of the warres and easie to be delt with al. And thē his regarde to the number place of our powr his the whiche indede wear far vnequall And hereto his assured hope of .xii. galleys and .l. ships that alweys he lookt for to be sent out of Fraūce to cum in at our backes He with hys hoste made themselues hereby so sure of the matter that in the night of this day they fel aforehande to plaiynge at dyce for certeine of our noble men and Captains of fame For asfor al the rest they thought quite to dispatch and wear of nothinge so mooch afeard as least we woulde haue made awey out of the cuntrey ear they and wee had met brutyng among them that our ships the day before remooued from before Lyeth but onely to take in our footmen and caryage to the entent our horsmen then with more hast and its cumber might thence be able to hie them homeward for the fear hearof also appointed they this night to haue geuen vs a camisado in our cāpe as we lay whearof euen then we hapt to haue an inkelyng thearfore late in the night entrenched our cariages and waggēboorowe had good skout without and sure watch within so that yf they had kept pointment as what letted them I coulde not lerne they shoulde neyther haue bene vnwelcummed nor vnlooked for Ye the great fear thei had of our hasty departure made them so hasty as the next morowe beyng the day of the battaile so early to cum towarde vs out of their campe agaynst whoom then though they sawe our horsmen redily to make yet woold thei not thīke but that it was for a pollecie to stay them while our footmē and cariage might fully be stowed a shipboorde Meruailousmen thei woold not beleue thear wear ony bees in the hyue til thei cam out and stang them by the noses They fared herein yf I may cōpare great things to small earnestie to game like as I haue wyst a good fellowe ear this that hath cum to a dycyng boord very hastely thrustyng for fear least all shoold be doon ear he could begin and hath soon bene shred of al that euer he brought but after when he hath cū tro the boord with his handes in his boosom remembred thear was neuer a peny in his purse he coulde quikly fynde that the fondnes was not in tariynge to long but in cummyng to soon We ar warned if we wear wise of these wit les brūtes by the commune prouerbe that saith It is better sit still then ryse vp and fall But bylyke they knowe it not In the night of this dai my lords grace appoīted that early in the next morning part of our ordinaūce should be planted in the lane I spake of vnder the turf wall next to their campe sum also to be set vpō the hil nie to Undreske church afore remēbred these to th entent we should with our shot caus them either hoolly to remooue their cāpe or els much to anoy thē as thei lay It was not the least part of our meaning also hereby to wyn from them certein of their ordinaunce that lay nerest this church ¶ No great breach of order I trust though here I reherse the thing that not til after I harde touchynge the trūpetours message from the earle Huntley Which was as I harde the erle hym self say that he neuer sent the same to my lordes grace but George Douglas in his name and this by him deuised not so specially for ony challēge sake as for that the messager should mayntein by mouth his talke to my lordes grace whyle his eye wear rolling to toote prie vpon the state of our campe whyther we wear pakkynge or no as indede the fellowe had a very good coūtenaūce to make a spie But my lordes grace of custume not vsyng so redyly to admit ony kynde of enemie to cum so nie had dispatched thē both with their aunswers as I sayd ear euer they cam within a mile of our campe As I hapt soon after to reherse the excuse of the Earle and this drift of Douglas a gentleman Skot that was prisoner and present sware by the mis it was lyke inough for he kend George ful well and sayd he was a mete man to pike whatels for oother men to fight for To th entent I woolde shewe my good will to make all thyng as easy to the sense of the reder as my knowledge coolde enstruct and forasmuch as the assaylee spetially of our horsmen at the firste their retyre agayn and our last onset pursuit and slaughter of the enemies can not all be shewed well in one plot I haue deuised and drawen accordynge to my cunnyng three seuerall viewes of them placed in their order as folowe in the battayle Whearin ar also oother tounes and places remembred such as that tyme I thought mete to marke and as my memorie could since call to mynde No fyne portrayture indede nor yet ony exquisite obseruaūce of geometricall dimēsiō but yet neither so grose nor far from the truth I trust
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
the mortalite was so great as it was thought the lyke afore time not to haue bene sene Indede it was the better maynteyned with theyr oun swoordes that lay each whear skattred by the waye whearof our men as they had broke one stil tooke vp another thear was store inough and they layd it on freely that righte many among theim at thys bysynes brake thre or foure ear they returned homeward to the armye I may well perchaunce confes that herein we vsed sum sharpnes although not asmuche as we mought and little curtesie and yet I can safely avowe all doon by vs as rather by sundry respectes dryuen and compeld then eyther of crueltie or of delight in slaughter And lyke sumwaye to the diligent Master that sharpely sumtime when warnynge will not serue dooth beat hys scholler not hardely for hate of the chylde or hys oune delyghte in beatynge but for looue he woolde haue hym amende hys fautes or negligence and beates hym ones surely because he woolde nede to beat hym no more One cause of the correction we vsed I maye well count to be their tyrannous vowe they made which we certeinly hard or that whensoeuer they fought and ouercam they woolde liea so many and spare so fewe a sure proof wherof thei plainly had shewed at our onset before whear they kylde all and saued not a man Another respecte was to reuenge their great and cruel tyranny shewed at Panyar hough as I haue before sayde whear they slewe the Lorde Euers whome otherwyse they mought haue taken prisoner and saued and cruelly kylde as many els of oure men as came into theyr handes We wear forced yet hereto by a further very earnest regarde whiche was the dout of assemble of their armie again whearof a cantell for the number had bene able to compare with our hole hoste when it was at the greatest and so perchaunce we shoulde haue bene driuen with dooble labour to beat thē again and make two woorkes of one whearas we well remēbred that a thynge ones well doon is twyse doon To these anoother and not the meanest matter was The name of lorde ▪ the Scottes take in lyke signification of speche as we do But a larde with theim I take it is as a squyer wyth vs A lound is a name of reproch as a villain or suche lyke their armour among theim so little differing and their apparail so base and beggerly whearin the Lurdein was in a maner all one wyth the Lorde and the Lounde wyth the Larde all clad a lyke in iackes coouerd wyth whyte with whyte leather dooblettes of the same or of fustian and most commonly al white hosen Not one with either cheine broochryng or garment of silke that I coold see onles cheynes of latten drawen four or fyue tymes along the thighs of their hosen and dooblet sleues for cuttyng and of the sort I sawe many This vilenes of port was the caus that so many of their great men and gentlemen wear kyld so fewe saued The outwarde sheaw the semblaunce sign whearby a starūger might discern a villain from a gentleman was not amoong them to be seen As for woordes goodly proffer of great raundsums wear as commō and ryfe in the mouths of the tone as in the toother And thearfore hereby it cam to pas that after at the examinacion and countyng of the prisoners we sound taken aboue twenty of their villayns to one of their gentlemen whoō no man nede to dout we had rather haue spared then the villayns yf we coold haue knowen ony difference betwene thē in takyng And yet notwithstonding all these our iust causes and quarels to kyll them we shewed more grace tooke mo to mercy then the case on our syde for the causes aforesayd did well deserue or require for bysyde the Erle Huntley who in good harneys appointed lykest a gentleman of ony of them that I coold hereof or see but coold not then eskape bicaus he lact his horse and thearfore hapt to be taken by Sir Rafe Uane and bysyde the Lorde of Yester Hobby Hambleton Captayn of Dunbar The Master of Sāpoole The Larde of Wimmes taken by Iohn Bren. A broother of the erle of Cassils And bysyde one Moutrell taken by Cornelius Cōtroller of the ordinaunce in this armie And bisyde one of the Camals an Irish gentlemā takē by Edward Chamberlain bysyde many oother Skottish gētlemē mo A kynsmā bylyke of the erle or Arguiles whoo 's proper sur name is Lamall lyke as the erle of Anguishes is Douglas the erle Huntleys Gordon A Scottish heraulde was also takē but here not placed bicaus my lordes grace caused hī foorth with free y to be releaced home wtout raūdsō or los whoo 's names takers I wel remēber not The prisoners accōted by the Marshals book wear numbred to abooue xv Touching the slaughter sure we kyld nothynge so many as if we had mynded crueltie so much for the tyme and oportunitee right well we mought for my lords grace of his woonted mercy mooch mooued with the pitee of this sight and rather glad of victorie then desyrous of crueltie soon after by ges v. of the clok stayed his standerd of his horsmen at the furthest part of their campe westward and caused the trumpettes to blowe a retreat Whearat also sir Rafe sadleyr treasurer whoo 's great diligēce at that time and redy forwardenes in the chefest of the fray before did woorthely merit no small commendacion caused al the footmen to stay and then with much trauaile and great peyn made them to be brought in sū order agayn It was a thyng yet not easly to be doon by reason they all as then sumwhat bisyly applied their market the spoile of this Scottish campe Whearin wear foūd good prouision of whyte bread ale oten-cakes otemeal mutton butter in pottes chese in diuers tentes good wyne also good store to say truth of good vitaile for the maner of their cuntree And in sum tentes amoong them as I hard say wear also founde of siluer plate a dish or ii ii or .iii. goblettes and .iii. or .iiii. chalices the whiche the fynders I know not with what reuerence but with sum deuotion hardely pluct out of the colde clouts thrust into their warme boosōs Here now to say sumwhat of the maner of their campe As they had no pauilions or roūd houses of ony cōmendable cumpas so wear thear fewe oother tentes with postes as the vsed maner of makyng is And of these fewe also none of abooue .xx. foot lēgth but most far vnder for the most part all very sumptuously beset after their faciō for the looue of Fraunce with fleur de lices sum of blue buckeram sum of black and sum of sum oother colours These whyte ridges as I calld them that as we stood on Fauxsyde Bray dyd make so great mouster toward vs which I dyd take then to be a number of tentes when we
sarcenet was foūd vnder whiche it was sayd these kirkmen cam whearupon was paynted a wooman with her hear about her shoulders knelynge before a crucifix and on her right hande a church after that written a long vpon the banner in greate Romane letters Afflictae sponsae ne obliuiscaris whiche woordes declared that they woold haue this wooman to signifie the church Christes spouse and thus in humble wyse makynge her peticion vnto Christ her husbond that he woold not now forget her his spouse beyng skourged and persecuted meanynge at this tyme by vs. It was sayd it was the Abbot of Donforlings Banner but whyther yt wear his or the Bysshop of Dunkels the goouernours broothers who I vnderstood wear both in the felde And what the number of these kirkmen was I coold not certeinly learne but sure it was sum deuout papistes deuise that not onely bylyke woold not endevour to doo ought for atonement and peacemakyng betwene vs but al contrariwise brought foorth his standard stoutly to fyght in feld himself against vs pretexyng this his great vngodlines thus bent toward the maintnaunce of a noughtie quarell with coolour of religion to cum in ayde of Christes church Which church to say truth cūmyng thus to battaile full appointed with weapon and garded with such a sorte of deacōs to fight how euer in payntyng he had set her out a man might well thinke that in condicion he had rather framed her after a curst quean that woolde piuk her husband by the pate except she had her will then lyke a meke spouse that went aboute humbly by submission and prayer to desyre her husbands help for redres of thinges amisse Howbeit for sauynge vpright the suftiltie of this godly mās deuise it is best we take hym he ment the most lykely that is the church malignaunt and cōgregacion of the wicked whear vnto that Antichrist the Bysshop of Roome is husbond whome Christ sayd as a thefe cums neuer but to steal slea destroy Io. ca. ◠And whoo 's good sun this holly Prelate in his thus cummyng to the felde with his Afflictae now shewed hym self to be Thear was vpon this Fauxsyde Bray as I haue before said a litle Castel or pile which was very bysy all the tyme of the battaile as ony of our men cam nye it to shoot at them with suche artillerie as they had which was none oother then of handgunnes and hakbutes and of them not a doosein neyther litle hurt dyd they but as they sawe their fellowes in the feld thus driuen and beaten awey before their faces they pluct in their peces lyke a dog his taile and couched them selfes within all muet but by and by the hous was set on fyre and they for their good will brent smoothered within Thus thrugh the fauour of gods bounty by the valiaunce and pollecie of my lordes Protectours grace by the foreward endeuour of all the nobles and counsell thear besyde and by the willing diligence of euery captain officer and true subiecte els we most valiauntly and honourably wan the victorie ouer our enemies Of whoō .xiiii. M wear slaī thus in felde of which nūber as we wear certeinly enfourmed by sundry and the best of the prisoners then taken bysyde the erle of Loghen war the lorde Flemmyng the master of Greym the master of Arskyn the master of Ogleby the master of Auendale the master of Rouen and many oother of noble birth amōg them thear wear of Lardes Lardes sūnes oother gentlemen slayn abooue .xxvi. C. v. C. wear takē prisoners whearof many gentlemen also amōg whome wear thear of name as I haue before named the erle Huntley lord Chauncelour of the Ream thear The lord of pester Hobby Hambleton captayn of Dunbar The Master of Sampoole The Larde of Wymmes and a broother of the erle of Cassyls Too thousand by luckyng liyng as though they wear dead skaped awey in the night all maymed and hurt Herewith wan we of their weapons and armour more then we woolde vouchesafe to gyue cariage for yet wear thear conueyed thence by ship into these parties of iakkes spetially and swords abooue .xxx. M. This night with great gladnes and thankes gyuyng to God as good caus we had about .vii. of the clok we pitched our campe at Edgebuklyng Bray bysyde Pynkersclough and a mile beyond the place we camped at afore About an hour after that in sum tokē as I took it of gods assent and applause shewed to vs touchyng this victorie the heauens relented and poured doun a great shour of rayne that lasted wel nie an hour not vnlyke and accordyng as after our late souereigne lordes conquest of Bullein plētifull shoures did also then ensue And as we wear then a setlīg the tentes a settyng vp amoōg all things els commendable in our hole iorney one thīg semed to me an intollerable disorder abuse that whear as all weys both in al tounes of war in al cāpes of armies quietnes stilnes without nois is principally in the night after the watch set obserued I nede not reason why our Northern prikkers the borderers notwithstandyng with great enormite as thought me not vnlyke to be playn vnto a masterles hound howlyng in a hie wey when he hath lost him he wayted on sum hoopynge sum whistelyng and most with crying a Berwyke a Berwyke a Fenwyke a Fenwyke a Bulmer a Bulmer or so ootherwise as theyr capteins names wear neuer linde these troublous daungerous noyses all the night long They sayd they did it to fynd out their captain fellowes but yf the souldiours of our oother coūtrees and sheres had vsed the same maner in that case we shoold haue oft tymes had the state of our camp more lyke the outrage of a dissolute huntyng then the quiet of a well ordred armye If is a feat of war in myne opiniō that might right well be left I could reherse causes but that I take it they ar better vnspoken then vttred onles the faut wear sure to be amēded that might shewe thei mooue alweis more perel to our armie but in their one nightes so doyng then thei shewe good seruice as sum sey in a hoole vyage And since it is my part to be playn in my proces I wil be the bolder to shewe what further I noted hard Anoother maner haue they amoong them of wearyng handkerchers rolled about their armes letters broudred apō their cappes thei sayd themselues the vse thearof was that ech of them might know his fellowe thearby the sooner assemble or in nede to ayde one another such lyke respectes Howbeit thear wear of tharmy amoōg vs sum suspicious mē perchaūce the thought thei vsed them for collusion rather bycaus they might be knowen to thenemie as the enemies ar knowen to them for thei haue their markes too so in cōflict either ech to spare oother or gētly ech to take oother In dede mē haue bene
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