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
me that it was to much then to be shewed in few woordes here Uery few thinges els to say truth that haue bene ony wher in these warres agaiÌst the enemie eyther nobly attempted or valiauntly acheued whearin his lordship hath not bene eyther the first ther in office or one of the foremost in daunger That if it fel so fete for my purpose to speake of his lordships honour at home as it hath doon sumwhat to touch his proowes abrode I coulde sure for commeÌdacion thearof moue my self matter wherin I wear able to sai rather liberally much then skarcely inough but omittiÌg that thearfore to turne to my tale agaiÌ his lordship regarding the dauÌger our rerewarde was in by reason of disorder caused at this passage by the thicknes of this mist nienes of the enemies himselfe skant with a .xvi. horse wherof Barteuile Ihon de Ribaude wear .ii vii or .viii. light horsemen mo the reste of his own seruauntes returned towarde the passage to see to the arraye agayne The Scottes perceyuyng our horsemeÌ to haue past on before thinkiÌg as the truth was that sum Capitain of honour did stay for the lookynge to the order of thys rerewarde kepinge the Southsyde of the Ryuer did call ouer to sum of our meÌ to knowe whither ther wear ony noble man nie thear they wear askt why they askt one of theÌ aunswered that he was such a maÌ whose name our meÌ knew to bee honorable among theÌ woold cum in to my lordes grace so that he mought be sure to cum in safetie our yooÌg souldiours nothing suspecting their auncieÌt falshed tolde him that my lorde LieutenauÌt the erle of Warwyke was nie thear by whose tuicioÌ he shuld be safely broughte to my lordes graces presence thei had cund their lesson fel to their practise which was this hauing cuÌmeÌ ouer the water in the way as my lorde should passe they had couched behinde a hillok about a .ii. C. of their prickers a .xl. had they sent besyde to search whear my lord was whom wheÌ thei fouÌd part of them prickt very nie these agayne a .x. or .xii. of my lordes small coÌpanie did boldly encouÌter draue theÌ wellnie home to their ambush fliynge perchauÌce not so much for fear of their force as for falshod to trap theÌ But hereby enformed that my lord was so nie they sent out a bigger nuÌber kept the rest more secret vpon this purpose that they might eyther by a playn onset haue distrest him or els that not preuaylinge by feyning of flight to haue trayned him into their ambushe thus instruct they cam prickiÌg toward hys lordshippe a pace why ê he wil not these knaues be ruled geue my staff the which then with so valiaunt a corage he charged at one as it was thought DaÌdy Car a Capitayn among theÌ that he did not onely coÌpel Car to turne him self chased him aboue .xii. skore together all the way at the spear point so that if Carres horse had not ben exceding good wight his lordship had surely ruÌ him thrugh in this race but also with his litle bande caused all the rest to flee a main After whom then as Henry Uane a gentlemaÌ of my lordes one of this coÌpany did fiersly pursue foure or .v. scottes sodeÌly turned set vpoÌ him though thei did not alltogether skape his haÌdes free yet by hewyng maÌgling hys hed body many places els they did so cruelly entreat him as if reskue had not cum the sooner thei had slaiÌ him out right but saued as he was I dare be bolde to sai many a M. in war els whear haue dyed with les then half the les hurt Here was Barteuile run at sydeling and hurt in the buttok one of our men slayn Of Scottes again none slaiÌ but .iii. takeÌ whearof one was Richarde Maxwell hurt in the thigh who had bene long in EngloÌd not loÌg before had receyued right many benefites as I harde himself coÌfesse both of the late kinges Maiestie of my lord LieutenauÌt of many other nobles geÌtlemen in the court beside thearfore for his ingratitude trayterous vntruth threatened too be haÌged But as otherwise he had a great dele to much more then he deserued so had he here sumwhat to litle for how my lordes grace bestowed hym I wot not but hanged in dede he was not To make my tale per fit it is certeinly thought that if my lorde Lieutenaunt had not thus valiauÌtly encountred theÌ ear thei coulde haue warned their ambushe how weakly he was warded he had bene beset rouÌd about by theÌ ear euer he could haue bene ware of theÌ or reskued of vs wher now hereby his Lordeship shewed hys wooÌted woorthines saued hys cuÌpanie discoÌfited the enemie Soon after he ouertooke my lord Protectour being as then set at dyner to whom he presented these prisoners recounted hys adueÌtures whose grace in the mean tune had hapt vpoÌ a fellowe lyke a man but I wot not of what sorte smal of stature red hedded curld rounde about shedded afore of a .xl. yere old calde himself Knockes To say sumwhat of his hauour his cote was of the coulor of a wel burnt brik I meaÌ not blak wel worth xx d a brode yarde it was pretely fresed half with an ado heÌmed rouÌd about very sutably with pasmaiÌ lace of grene caddis me thought he represented the state of a suÌner in sum citee or of a pedler in sum boorowe how far so euer he had trauayled that day he had not a whit fyled his bootes for he had none on harmles bilyke for he ware no weapon he rode on a trottynge tyt well woorth a coople of shillynges the loss whereof at his takyng he toke very heuely yet did my lordes grace caus him to be set on a better I take his learning was but smal but his vttraunce was greate sure for he neuer lind babeling very moyst mouthed and somewhat of nature disposed to slauer and therfore fain without a napkin to wype hys lyppes to suppe at euery woord sum said it was no faut in the man but the maner of the cuntree in dede they haue many moyst mystes thear no lak of audacity nor store of wit for beynge taken brought in for a spie posed in that pointe whyther he went neither by the honestie of hys erraunde nor goodnes of his wit was he able to make ony lykely excuse the tenoure of his talke so tempred thoorow out and the most of hys matter so indifferently mingled as yf they make hym not bothe it was harde for any theare to iudge whether they might rather counte hym a folish knaue or a knauishe foole at whome my lordes grace and other had right good sport As Barteuile that day had righte honestly serued so did the lordes righte honorably quite yt for straight vpon the ouertakynge of my
but that thei may sarue for sumeas of vnderstandynge But since the skantnes of roome wil not suffer me plainly at leÌgth to write thear euery places name but thearfore am fayin in stede of a name to set vp a letter The Reder must be coÌteÌt 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 RaymuÌdes Alphabete shal neuer cum to the composicion of his quintesseÌce In practica testi sui ca. ii what he shal doo though sum practicioners doo dout And miÌding 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 septeÌber 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 consideracioÌs afore remeÌbred 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 lowriÌg 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 ordinauÌce by draught of men whiche at this tyme begaÌ freely to shoot of toward vs whearby we wear further warned they meÌt 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 amooÌg the souldiours not vnlyke the nois of the sea beyng harde a far of herewith my lordes grace the couÌsel on horsbak as thei wear fell straight in consultacion The sharpnes of whoo 's circuÌspect wysedomes as it quyckly spyed out the enemies entntes so did it amoong other thinges proÌptly 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 baÌde my Lord Lieutenauntes al to the number of an xviii C. horsmeÌ on the east half sir Raâe Uane with sir Thomas Darey captain of the pencioners men of armes my lord Fitzwaters with his baÌde of dimilauÌces all to the nuÌber also of a .xvi. C. to be redy eueÌ with my lorde Marshal on the west half thus all these toogether afore to encouÌter the enemies a fruÌt 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 dauÌger 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 valiauÌtly and willingly executed of them for euen thear with good coorage takyng theyr leaues of the counsel my lord Marshal requyriÌg 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 aduauÌtage 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 circuÌspectly takeÌ order for the array and station of the armie for thexecucioÌ of euery maÌs office beside
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
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 MuÌday 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 meÌ 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 caÌpe 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 accoÌpanied 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 peradueÌture 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 hiÌ 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 freÌdship by their submission was sufficieÌtly 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 luÌg voet rendre lautre and so foorth Thear wear certeiÌ 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 husbaÌds 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 coouenauÌtes 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 miÌdes 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 EdiÌborowe to kno his wil but beyng wisely sharply cauld vpoÌ 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 plaÌted on the southsyde towarde the Castell within pour of batrie the hakbuttes to continue their watch and warde Thursday the xxii of