THE Expedicion into ScotlaÌde of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward Duke of Soomerset vncle vnto our most noble souereign lord the kiÌges 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 remeÌbraunce 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 geÌtelnes 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 meÌ so coÌmonly 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 cuÌtree 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 coÌmitted the speciall ministerie dispatch of his weyghtie affaires vnto your handes that felt not as moche then as I haue fouÌde 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 WhooÌ for the respect of your honour as I haue a reuerence wyth vanitees froÌ 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 bouÌd me so straightly to you dyd fyrste to saye the truthe now emboldeÌ me in this theame to set peÌ 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 pleasauÌt ony thing sauering of witte or learnyng I woold all meÌ 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 continauÌce 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 meÌs 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 circuÌstaunces of thys our most valiaÌt 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 coÌpany and at euery table whear it hath bene my hap to be since my cummynge home the hole communicactoÌ 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 auÌswer For considering how muche in euery narracion the circuÌstauÌces do serue for the perfit instruccioÌ 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 circuÌstaunces hereof with the rest of our most triumphaÌt 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 writiÌg Not as of arrogaÌcie taking vpon me the thing which I my self must coÌfesse many caÌ do better but as of good will doyng myn endeuour for that in me lieth to make all meÌ 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 clemeÌcie hath so coÌtinually 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 CouÌsaill By whose generall sage consultacions circumspect wisdomes as freÌdship with forein princes prouision for thenemie hathe bene coÌtinued and made abrode we garded
thing as most hartely for my part I dayly wysh for so haue I good hope shortly to see and herewith betake you to God But now to retourne out of my disgressioÌ for though I haue bene long a talkynge to my cuntrymeÌ 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 euaÌgelist yet wil I leaue as few vnwritteÌ verites as I caÌ As my lordes grace my lord of Warwyke thother estates of the couÌsail thear with the rest of the dignite of th armie did at our settiÌg outward tarry a few daies at Barwike the wel appointing of the noble meÌ for their boÌdes of the knyghtes gentilmeÌ for theÌ selues seruauÌtes I meane specially of the horsmeÌ which though but at moustres was neuer shewed of purpose yet coolde it not at that tyme be hyd but be bright apparaÌt in euery maÌs eye was if I can ought iudge I assure you for the goodly nuÌber of the likely men redy horses for their perfit appointmeÌt of sure armour weapoÌ apparail their suÌptuous 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 thauÌcieÌt 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 couÌtrey 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 paymeÌt For the Erle Huntley a gentlemaÌ 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 gotteÌ leaue of our Lord too make a man made one first wyth a very great hed theÌ 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 LieuetenauÌt 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 LieuetenauÌt of all the men of armes and dimilauÌces beyng in number .iiii. M. Syr Thomas Darcy knight Capitayn of all the kynges Maiestie peÌcioners meÌ 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 FleÌmynge 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 froÌ LondoÌ his own person in post accompanied wyth my lorde Marshall and syr Fraunces
Marshal the other with present mynde courage waerely and quikly continued their coorse towarde theÌ And my lordes grace then at his place by thordinauÌce 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 meÌ must nedes pas to cum to theÌ 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 theÌ 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. inloÌd men as they call them the choysest men counted of their coÌtre 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 raÌ 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 raÌkes 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 leÌger then their staues as also for that their horses wear all naked without barbes wherof ¶ The exposicioÌ 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 horsmeÌ 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 significacioÌ 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 morniÌg 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 vpoÌ 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 aduauÌtage 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 theÌ But touchyng the exposicion of the notes and letters I refer the reder to the Table before confes the truth sum of the nuÌber that knue not the prepeÌsed 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 couÌtree or kyn to be so partial as wil wittingly either bolster the falshod or bery the truthe for honor in myn opinioÌ the way gotten wear vnworthely wun and a very vyle gain howbeit hereby I caÌnot 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 theÌ 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 PrestoÌ Brampton and Gerningham Bulleners Ratclyf the lord Fitzwaters brother Syr Ihon Cleres son heyr Digges of keÌt Ellerker a peÌcioner Segraue Of my lorde Protectours baÌd my lorde Edward hys graces sonne Captain of the same baÌde StaÌley Woodhous Coonisby Horgill Morris Dennys Arthur and Atkinson with other in the foreraÌke 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 raÌ 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 gentlemeÌ 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 thiÌke 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 haÌde beateÌ flat Euen so vppon the partynge of thys fray was Syr Arthur Darcy slasht at
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 ⪠which is a rare thing vpoÌ so hie and stonie a grouÌd 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 stroÌgly 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 treÌch 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 Hoppringlââ 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 furtherauÌce 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 AlexaÌder what time with his oun haÌdes he set the poor colde soldiour in his oun chaire of estate ⪠to releeue hym by his tier So by the example herof was euery man so mooued as thear wear but fewe of Lordes knightes and gentlemen in the feld but with spade shoouell or mattook did thearin right willyngly vncompeld their partes Sunday the xxv of september ¶ This daye began the Skottes to brynge vitayll to our campe for the whiche they wear so well entreated and paide that durynge the tyme we laye thear we wanted none of the commodities their coÌtry 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 caÌpe master Uane was welcuÌmed 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 mooÌth 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 FreÌchmen that wear perchaunce more desierous to marke our armie then to wit of our welfare cam and declared from their couÌsell 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 cuÌming my lorde LieutenauÌt 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 cuÌ And yet sure take I this no fetch of no fine deuise oÌles thei mean hereby to wyn that thei shal nede neuer after to promys vsyng the feate of Arnus In EpigraÌ Morâ 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 couÌted 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 couÌsel of a Ream Howbeit as these letters wear to theÌ but an vnprofitable plaster to heale their hurt then so ar thei full likly if thei trust much therin to fynd theÌ 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 promotioÌs of whooÌ 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 LieutenauÌt 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 IhoÌ 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 couÌsel and in this armie as I mought call him chefe secretarie who with his great peyns and expedite diligeÌce in dispatch of things passyng from my lords grace and the couÌsel thear did make that his merite was not with the meanest Sir Fraunces Flemmynge master of thordinaunce thear a gentlemaÌ 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 writteÌ in the storie before with what forward hardines Sir George haward did bear the kings maiestie staÌderd in the battail thear also of the industrious peyn of sir Iames Wilford how sir Rauf CoppiÌger 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 WeÌtwoorth Sir Ihon Maruen Sir NychaÌs Straunge Yet knightes Sir Charles Sturton Sir Hugh Askue Sir Frauncis Salmyn Sir Richard Tounley Sir Marmaduke CuÌstable 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 BraÌdling 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 amoÌg these wear thear right many the knowledge of whose actes and demerytes I coold not cuÌ by And yet woold haue no man no more to doubt of the worthines of their aduauncemeÌt then they ar certein of his circuÌspectioÌ and wisedome who preferd them to it Whearupon all meÌ 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 vpoÌ 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. horsemeÌ 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 caÌpe 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 gettiÌg ouer whych was ouer against the west ende of our caÌp and not farr from the brokeÌ atches of the brokeÌ bridge was yet
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 cuÌmyng of the Scottish commissioners In the meaÌ 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 FreÌch man and anoother But the Skottes lyke men though supper in couenaunt yet coÌstant in vsage and thearfore les blusshing to break promes then custome came not at all whearupoÌ 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 theÌce homeward In part of the meane time while my lordes grace was thus doyng thexploits in SkotlaÌd as I haue before written the erle of Linnos with my lord WhartoÌ lord Warden of our westmarches against Skotland according as his grace had before takeÌ order with a nuÌber of v. M. entred SkotlaÌd on the west marches And first passing a ii mile after a dayes a nightes defence they wan the churche of Annan a stroÌg 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 loÌd soon after they wan a hold called the castle of mylke the which they left well furnyshed with municion meÌ and so retourned Diuers other actes notable they did here left vnwritteÌ of me because vnknowen too me but asmuche as I certeinly hard of I haue thought mete hereunto to adde because I may wel couÌt theim as part of this expedicioÌ 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 perchauÌce it had bene the office of hym that woold take vpoÌ 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 diligeÌce 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 diligeÌt markinge of the situacioÌ 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 circuÌstaunces and placinge of thinges accordingly in writing as they wear done seen or hard I fouÌd the enterprise a great dele more weyghtie then the sleÌdernes of my wit was able quikly to pas with Howbeit wheÌ vppon deper considerauÌce I pondered with my self what a thiÌg 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 publicatioÌ whearby at ones I shold lose my libertie of ameÌdment Which libertie though after I mought haue neuer so well yet because it is nothinge so commeÌdable 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 diligeÌce could haue made it And surely had it not ben more for auÌswering 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 cuÌme abrode I woold haue taken a better breath ear they had cum out yet But sins the chauÌce is cast the woord thus vttred cannot be called agayn whearby I haue ieoperded with your .iii. houres reding to make you ceÌsour 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 theÌ 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 LieutenauÌt 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