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
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
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
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
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
lordes grace my Lorde Lieutenaunt did get him a surgion drest he was straight after layde and conueyed in my lordes graces own chariot that was both right sumptuous for cost and casy for caryage The rest that wear hurt wear here all so drest Scottes oother â—â—e had marched that day a ix mile and camped at night by a toun standyng vpon the Fryth called Lang Nuddrey Here â—â—e fouÌ„d a geÌ„tle woomaÌ„ some sayd a ladye the wyfe of one hugh Douglas she was greate with child in a house others thear abode her good tyme of deliueraunce had with her an auÌ„cient geÌ„tle woomaÌ„ her mother a mid wyfe a daughter whose estate the counsail vnderstaÌ„ding my lordes grace my lord Lieutenaunt took order that al night without daunger or domage she was well preserued but sone after our departure in the morenynge I harde that sum of our northerne prickers had visited her not muche for her profit â–ª nor al for their honesties that had they then bene caught with their kindnes thei should haue bene sure of thaÌ„kes accordyng â–ª good people be they but geuen much as thei say to the spoyle Thursdaye the viii of septeÌ„ber beynge our lady day ¶ This morning in the time of our dislodgiÌ„g sign was made to sum of our ships whereof the moste parte chefest lay a .x. or xii mile in the Fryth beyoÌ„d vs ouer againste Lyeth Edinborowe that the lord Admiral should cum a shore to speake with my lordes grace In the meane tyme sumwhat early as our galley was cuÌ„ming toward vs about a mile more beyond our caÌ„pe the Scots wear very busy a waftynge her a shore towarde them with a banner of Sainct George that they had but my Lorde Lieutenaunt soon disapointed the pollicie for makyng towarde that place wheare my Lord Admirall shoulde londe oure men on the water by the sighte of hys presence dyd soon discerne their frendes froÌ„ their foes By and by then my lorde Clynton the Admirall came to londe Who with my Lorde Lieutenaunte rode back to my lordes grace among whom order was taken that our greate ships should remooue from before Lyeth lye before Muskelborowe and their camp and oure smaller vessels that wear vitaillers to lye nerer vs. This thus apointed my lorde Admirall rode back to take the water agayne And as our armie had marched onwarde a mile or .ii. thear appered vpon a hill that lay longwise east west on the southsyde of vs vpoÌ„ a vi hundred of their horsmen prickers whearof sum within a .ii. flight-shot directly againste vs vpon the same hill and most further of towarde these ouer a small bridge for thear raÌ„ne a litle riuer also bi vs very hardely did ride about a dooseiÌ„ of our hakbutters on horsback and helde them at bay so me to their noses that whether it wear by the goodnes of our meÌ„ or badnes of theÌ„ the Scottes did not onely not cum doune to them but also very curteisiy gaue place fled to their fellowes yet I know they lack no hartes but thei caÌ„not so well away with these crakkes Our armie went on but so much the slowlyer because our way was sumwhat narowe by meanes of the Fryth on the tonesyde and certain marishes so nie on the toother The Scottes kepte alwayes pace with vs vpoÌ„ their hill and shewed themselfes vpon sundry bruntes very cranke brag at whom as our captains did loke to the ordryng and arraiyng again of the battailes my lord protectors grace appointed .ii. feld peces to be turned eche pece shot of twyse wherof one Gold that master guÌ„ner thear discharged the tone did so wel direct it that at his former shot he strook of the leg of a black horse right fair and as it was thought the best in the coÌ„pany at his next shot he kyld a man hereby rather sumwhat calmed then fully content thei went theyr wayes we saw no more of theÌ„ til the time of our caÌ„pyng then shewed thei theÌ„selues very lordly aloft vpoÌ„ thys hill againe oueragainst vs as though they stood there to take viewe of our campyng mouster of our men My lord Marshall myndyng to knowe theyr coÌ„missioÌ„ did make towarde theÌ„ with a band of horsmeÌ„ but they went wisely their way would neuer abyde the reasoning of the matter In the way as we came not far from this place George Ferrers a gentlemaÌ„ of my lord Protectors one of the coÌ„missioners of the cariages in this army happened vpon a caue in the ground the mouth whereof was so worne with the fresh printe of steps that he semed to be certayne thear wear sum folke within gone doune to trie he was redily receyued with a hakebut or .ii. He left them not yet till he had knowen whyther thei would be coÌ„teÌ„t to yelde cum out which they fondly refusyng he wente to my lordes grace and vpon vttraunce of the thyng gat lisence to deale with them as he coulde and so returned to them with a skore or two of pioners Three ventes had their caue that we wear wareof wherof he first stopt vp on anoother he fild ful of strawe and set it a fyer whearat they within caste water a pace but it was so well maynteyned without that the fyre preuailed and thei fayn within to get them belyke into anoother parler Then deuised we for I hapte to be with hym to stop the same vp whearby we should eyther smoother them or fynde out their ventes if thei had any mo as this was dooÌ„ at another issue aboute a .xii. skore of wee moughte see the fume of our smoke to cum oute the whiche continued with so great a force so long a while that we could not but thinke they must nedes get them out or smoother within and forasmuch as we found not that they dyd the tone we thought it for certain thei wear sure or the toother wee had dooÌ„ that wee came for and so lefte them ¶ By this time our ships takynge manerly their leaue of Lyeth wyth a skore of shot or more and as they came by salutyng the Scottes in their caÌ„pe also with as many cam laye accordynge to appoyntmente We had gone this day about a v. mile caÌ„ped towarde night nye a toune they call salte Preston by the Fryth Here one CharletoÌ„ a man before time banisht out of England continuyng all the while in Scotlande came in and submitted himselfe to my lordes grace who took hym to mercie Fryday the .ix. of september ¶ This dai is markt in the kallender with the name of saincte Gorgon no famous saint sure but eyther so obscure that no man knowes him or els so aunciente as euery man forgettes him Yet wear it both pitee and blame that he shoulde lose hys estimacion amonge vs. And methinkes oute of that litle that I haue red I coulde somewhat saye to bryng hym to lighte agayne
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
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.