THE Expedicion into Scotlāde of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward Duke of Soomerset vncle vnto our most noble souereign lord the kīges Maiestie Edvvard the VI. Goouernour of hys hyghnes persone and Protectour of hys graces Realmes dominions and subiectes made in the first yere of his Maiesties most prosperous reign and set out by way of diarie by W. Patten Londoner VIVAT VICTOR VNto the right honorable Syr VVilliam Paget knyght of the most noble order of the Garter Comptroller of the kynges Maiesties housholde one of his hyghnes priuie counsaill Chauncellor of the duchie of Lancaster and his moste benigne Fautour and Patrone VVilliam Patten most hartely vvisheth felicite HAuynge in these last warres againste Scotlande that neuer wear any with better succes acheued made notes of actes thear doon and disposed the same since my cummynge home into order of diarie as followeth As one that woulde showe sum argument of remēbraunce right honorable Sir of your moste benign fauour that aswel while I was with the right honorable my very good lord and late master the erle of Arundell as also since ye haue vouchsafed to bear me I haue thought metest to dedicate my trauail vnto your honor How finally I either am or haue ben by ony meanes able to merite the same your gētelnes by so moch the lesse haue I nede here too shewe as your humayne generosite your willyng benignite and promptnes to proffit all men is vnto all mē so cōmonly knowen for the whiche youre name and honor is so familiar and well estemed with forein princes abrode so woorthely welbeloued of al estates at home for who was he of ony degree or cūtree that had ony iust sute or other a do with our late souereign lord the kinges Maiestie deceased when his highnes in these his latter yeres for your approued wysdome fidelite trust and diligence had cōmitted the speciall ministerie dispatch of his weyghtie affaires vnto your handes that felt not as moche then as I haue foūde since or who findeth not still a constant continuaunce thearof whear the equite of his sute may bear it Ryght many sure of the small knowledge I haue could I my selfe reken both of than and since whiche here all willyngly I leaue vnattempted to doo both bi cause my rehersall shoulde be very vnnecessarie vaine to you that know them better then I and also that I should tell the tale to your self Whoō for the respect of your honour as I haue a reuerence wyth vanitees frō your graue occupacions to deteyne so haue I for honesties sake a shame to be suspect by ony meanes to flatter That same your syngler humanitee wheare wyth ye are woont also so gently to accept all thyng in so thankefull a parte whear with ye haue boūd me so straightly to you dyd fyrste to saye the truthe now emboldē me in this theame to set pē to the book nowe after in thys wyse to present my worke vnto you The which if it shal please your honour too take well in woorthe and receyue in to your tuicion As the thing shall more indede be dignified by hauing suche a Patrone then your dignytee gratifyed by receyuinge so vnworthy a present euen so what fault shal be founde thearin I resume as clerely cummyng of my selfe But yf ought shal be thought to be aptly sayd pleasaūt ony thing sauering of witte or learnyng I woold all mē should know it as I acknowledge it my self that the must holy be referred to you then couraging of whose fauour hathe ministred suche matter to my witte That lyke as Ouyde sayd to Cesar of hys so may I say to you of myne Ingenium vultu statque caditque tuo Faustor .i. But now no further with my talke too troble you Thus with encrease of honour vnto your woorthines most hartely I wishe the same continaūce of health and wealth Your moste bounden client and puple W. Patten A PREface seruynge for muche parte in stede of argument for the matter of the storie ensuing ALthough it bee not allways the truest meanes of meting to measure all mēs appetites by one mans affeccion yet hereof at thys tyme dare I more then half assure me that euen as I would be in case like my selfe so is euery man desyrous too know of the maner and circūstaunces of thys our most valiāt victorie ouer our enemies and prosperous successe of the rest of our iourney The bolder am I to make this general iudgement Arist. Metaph .i. partly for that I am sumwhat by learning but more by nature instruct to vnderstonde the thursty desyer that all our kynde hath to knowe And then for that in euery cōpany and at euery table whear it hath bene my hap to be since my cummynge home the hole communicactō was in a manner nought els but of this expedicion and warres in Scotland whearof many to me then haue ministred so many interrogatories as would haue wel cumbered a righte ripetunged deponent redyly to aunswer I indede thearto soo hastely could not Yet neuertheles blame them no more for quiknes of question then I would my selfe for slownes of aūswer For considering how muche in euery narracion the circūstaūces do serue for the perfit instrucciō of them that doo here I can easly thincke thesame wear as muche desyred of them to be hard as necessarie of me to be told And specially of this to say chefely of the battel beyng suche a matter as neyther the like hathe bene sene wyth eies by any of this age now or red of istorie of ony yeres past So great a pour so wel picked appointed so restfull fresh so muche encouraged by hope of forein ayde at their owne doores nay in the middes of their house and at the worst so nie to their refuge to be beaten vanquished put to flight and slayne by so smal a number so greatly trauayled and wery so far within their enemyes lond and out of their own without hope either of refuge or reskue The circūstaunces hereof with the rest of our most triumphāt iourney whiche otherwise aptly for vnaptnes of tyme I could not vtter by woord of mouth here mynde ▪ I god willing no we too declare by letter of writīg Not as of arrogācie taking vpon me the thing which I my self must cōfesse many cā do better but as of good will doyng myn endeuour for that in me lieth to make all mē priuie of that whereof it wear mete no man wear ignoraunt Aswel because thei may the rather vniuersally be mooued to pray prayse glorifie the most merciful Lorde whose clemēcie hath so cōtinually of these late yeres vouchsafed to shew hys moste benign fauour towarde vs As also to worship honour and haue in veneracion the reuerend worthines of our most honorable Coūsaill By whose generall sage consultacions circumspect wisdomes as frēdship with forein princes prouision for thenemie hathe bene cōtinued and made abrode we garded
note occurrences that came The which thing as it chaunced we booth dyd but so far from appoyntmēt betwene vs. As neyther was wyting of others doing tyll sumwhat before our departure homeward Mary since my cūming home indede his gētilnes being such as too communicate his notes with me I haue I cōfes bene thearby bothe muche a certeyned in many thinges I douted And sumwhat remembred of that which els I mought hap to haue forgotten ¶ But now forasmuch as it hath pleased the moste benign goodnes of God so fauorably to ayd vs in these our affaires and so moch to tender the equitie of our cause as by hys mynister and our hed in this iourney my lord Protectours grace we haue tourned oure enemies entents for destruccion of vs vnto theyr own confusion And fyrst ouerturned of thear holdes Dunglas Thornton Anderwyke and Annā church ouercummē then with the half of their number .xxxii. M slain xv M.iii. C maymed .ii. M taken .xv. C burned lyeth kynkorne as more of their tounes els we mought if our Chieftaī had bene as willing as our capitayns wear redy wun the best of their nauie and burnt the residue wun from thē and kepe in the mids of their londe saint Coomes Ins and Broughty crak and thearby but by oure leaue kepe thē from their hole entercours of merchaūtes wū also kepe the Castle of Mylk and Hume castle wun of ordinaūce in their fortes and at the feld aboue .lxxx. peces Bylded Rokesborow castle Aymouth and gayned vnto the kynges Maiesties obedience al Tyuedale and their Marches All this in so short a time as within .xxv. dayes with soo small a losse of oure syde in all the hole viage as vnder the numbre of lx persons and that in this the fyrst yere of our kynges Maiesties dominion rule whearby according vnto his singuler towardenes els euident we may well conceyue an assured hope hys hyghnes too shall haue a most happie reygn and with a Gods grace a longe I woold wyshe and exhort that ye whiche wear not theare for thoughe ye wear far from ony daunger of the los yet can ye not be but full parteners of the winnynge shoolde effectually with vs accordynge as we all haue cause gyue wishe firste glorie and prays vnto God obediēce and victorie to our soueraygn honour and thankes vnto our Protectour and coūsellours woorship to our chyualrie commendaciō vnto the rest that wear out and a better mynd vnto our enemies And I trustyng vnto the benignitie of your gentle acceptaunce whoo of this woorke shall hap to be Reder with such indifferencie of request touching the same as Horace made to hys welbeloued frēd Numicius Epist. i. shal thus take my leaue of you Viue Vale si quid nouisti rectius istis Candidus imperti si non his vtete mecum Out of the Parsonage of s. Mary hill in London this xxviii of Ianuary 1548. Fautes escaped in the printynge and to be correct as followeth a. the first leaf on the first syde the .xviii. line or rede our a. the .ii. first syde the .xvii. line Blank nests rede Blaknests a. vi first syde .ii. lyne his rede this a. vi second syde .ix. line or rede our ◠v. first syde .x. line aswel adde as ◠ii first syde vi line put out a meruailous A. v first syde .vi. line their rede thear B. iii. first side viii line put out these B. iii ii syde v. lyne Douglash rede Douglasses B iiii ii syde vii line .iiii. mile rede iiii sko re mile B. v. ii syde viii lyne stopt rede stoopt B. vi first syde vii line Douglash rede Douglasses L. vii fyrst syde ix line for gyue my read gyue me my E. ii ii syde xxi lyne .ii. rede ii M E iiii ii syde viii line iii. rede iii. L E v ii syde xiii line honorable rede honorably E viii ii syde first line sight rede fight F ii ii syde iii. line handes rede hande F iii ii syde xvii line inough rede enugh F vi i. syde x. lyne ony whit adde I dare saye G ii ii syde ix line of our adde horsmē before them they had sum sight of our G vii first syde ii line men rede mens H iii i. syde xvii line Morris rede Norris thear xx lyne earnst rede earnest H v ii syde x. lyne continaunce rede continuance H vii ii syde v. line bere ▪ rede bare H viii fyrst syde .xiiii. line matter adde and thear xi line remember adde all thear xx lyne entend adde as K ii ii syde fyrst line xv rede xv L K vi ii syde ii line his rede the L iii ii syde vii line luckyng rede lurkyng ¶ FINIS Imprinted in Londō the last daie of Iune in the second yere of the reigne of our souereigne lorde kyng Eduuard the VI by Richard Grafton printer to his moost royall Maiestie in the yere of our lord M. D. XL VIII ¶ Cum preuilegio ad imprimendum solum
from outwarde inuasion or disturbaunce at home no prince with obedience diligence more nobly serued nor no cōminaltie with Iustice mercie more sagely gouerned Euen so by the speciall inuincible vertue and valiaunt pollecie of my lorde Protectours grace we haue fyrste and as it wear in the entrie of this moste honorable victorious viage ouerturned many of oure enemyes rebellious holdes thē ouercūmen the dooble of oure number and strength in open feld by plaine dynt of swoorde slayne so great a multitude of them wyth so smal a los of our syde taken of their chefest prysoners wun and kepe a greate sorte of their strongest fortes bylded many nue takē and destroyed their hole nauie brought the tounships in the hither partes of their boūdes aboue .xx. mile cūpas in an honest obediēce vnto the kynges Maiestie By the Martiall corage of his vndaunted hardines was this expediciō so boldly takē in hand by the presence and aduēture of hys own persone was the same so warely wisely conducted by the vertuous pollicie of hys circumspect prowes was this victorie or rather conquest so honorably acheued vnto whose valiaunce and wisdome I can entierly attribute so muche as to the furtheraūce of Fortune nothyng at all De diuinac ii whiche as Cicero proueth is eyther a vayne name or not at al or if thear be is euer subiect as the Platonikes affirme to wisdome and industrie The which indede dyd so manifestly appere in thaffaires of this viage that like as in account the seuerall nūbers of x.xx.xxx.xl being caste together must nedes make vp the iuste summe of an C. Euen so suche his graces prouidēce circumspection courage order doon fortune what she coulde must nedes haue atteind to such successe of victorie That if the Romains wear content to allowe the honour of triūphe to Scipio Africane for ouercūmyng Anniball and Syphax Tit. Liui. And to M. Attilius Regulus for vanquisshing the Salētynes And thearto to set vp images the hyghest honour that they had for a perpetuall memorie of M. Claudius Marcellus and Mutius Sceuola the one but for kyllynge Uiridomar the Frenche kynge in felde at the Ryuer of Pade Valeri li. i .iii. Plini de vir illust and for deuising how Annibal might be vāquished and ouercummynge but of thonely citie of Sarragoze And thother but for hys attempte to slay kyng Porsenna that beseged Rome What thankes then what estimaciō what honour and reuerēce cōdigne for these hys notable demerites ought our Protectour to receiue of vs nay what can we woorthily gyue hym How be it if we call to mynde how first about Alhallowen tyde was .v. yere M.D.XLij hys grace liyng as Lord wardē in our marches agaynste Scotland by the drift of hys deuise both the greate inuasion of the late Scottishe kyng Iames the fift was stoutly then withstōd at Solom Mosse the kyng his deathes wound geuen hym most parte of all hys nobilitee taken How the next yere after he beyng accōpanied with my lorde the Erle of Warwycke but with an handful to speake of dyd burne bothe Lieth and Edinborow returned thence triumphantly home but with an easie marche trauailīg .xliiii lōg miles through their mayn lond Whose approoued valiaunce wisedom and dexterite in the hādelinge of our princes affaires how cā we be but sure that it did not smally aduaūce or cause about the conclusion of an honorable peace betwene Fraunce and vs although it did not then strayghte ensue whē his grace in the same yere soon after hys retorne out of Scotland was deputed Ambassadour to treat with the Bisshoppe of Belay and oother the Frenche kynges commissioners at Hardilow castel In the yere M.D.xliiii How hys grace about August soo inuaded the Scottish borders wasted and burnt Tyupdale and their Marches that euen yet they forthinke that inrode In Februarie then next howe being appointed by our late suffrain Lord to vieu the fortificacions in the Marches of Caleys the whiche hys grace hauing soon doon with diligence accordingly he so deuised with my Lord the erle of Warwyke then Lieutenaunt of Bullein and toke such order with the rest of the garrisons thear that with the hardy approche of but .vii. in mē he reysed an armie of .xxi M. Frenchmen that had encāped them selues ouer the Riuer by Bulleyn thearwith then wan all their ordinaūce cariage treasure tentes in their cāpe hole as it stode with the los but of one man And frō thence returnyng by londe to Gynes wan in his wey within the gūshot reskue of Arde the castel of Outinges called otherwise the red pile How hereto by his force M.D.xlv. was Pykardy inuaded and spoiled the fortes of Newhauen Blanknestes Bullenberge begunne bylded and soo well plyed in woorke that in a fewe wekes ear hys thence departinge they wear made and left defensyble Callynge to mynde I saye I speake not of hys vnweryed diligence in the meane time these hys valiaunt incursions hys oftē ouerthrowings and notable victories ouer our enemies And yet thoughe this his last be far to be preferred aboue thē all hauing bene so greate and acheuing so much in so litle tyme the like not hard nor red of and but that thear be so many witnesses half incredible yet is it none other sure but suche as makes his graces vertue rather nue agayn then straunge and rather famous then woōderful We woōder not ye wot but at thynges straunge seldom seen or harde but victorie to hys grace semes no les commen and appropried then heat to the fier or shadow to the body That lyke as the well kepyng of the Palladie in Troy was euer the conseruacion and defence of the citie Palladium was an aūciēt wodden image in Troy whearuppon Apollo by oracle did prophecie that then shoold Troy be destroyed ▪ when that wear had out of the Citie Thys not vnknou ē to the Grekes Diomedes ▪ Ulisses in the time of the sege thear shaled the tower walles whear the image was kept kyld the warders and brought the image a wey with them whearuppon soon after the citie was destroyed euen so in warfare the presence of his parson is certain safegard of the host and present victorie ouer thenemie for the which I haue hard many of right honest hauour to say that for suerty of them selues they had rather in feld be a mean souldiar vnder his grace then vnder ony other a great Captain And sure but that by my professiō I am boūd and do beleve all thinges to be goouerned not by fortune or hap although we must be cōtent in commune speche to vse the termes of our formers deuised but by the mightie pour of almightie God Mat .x. without whose regard a sparowe lighteth not vpon the ground I could coūt hys grace a Prince that wey most fortunate of ony lyuynge But now remembring my religion and what fortunes force is hereto seeng his graces Godly
disposicion and behauour in fiercest tyme of war seking nothing more then peace neither cruell vpon victorie nor insolent vpon good successe but with most moderate magnanimitee vpon the respect of occasiō vsing as the Poet saith Vergil Parcere subiectis debellare superbos In peace agayn hoolly bent to thaduauncement of Gods glorie and truthe the kynges honour and the commons quyet and wealth And herewith conferring the benefites and blessinges that by the prophet Dauid the Lorde assureth too all them that so stōde in looue and dreade of hym Psal. cxi c.xxvii I am compelled to thinke hys grace as lest happy by fortune so most blessed by God and sent to vs both kynge and commons as a minister by whome the merciful Maiestie of the Lorde for our entier comfort of bothe soule and body wyll woorke his diuine wyll That if without offence I may openly vtter that I haue secretly thoughte I haue bene often at a great muse with my selfe whither the kynges Maiestie of suche an Unkle and Goouernour we of such a Mediatour and Protectour or hys grace agayn of suche a Prince Cosyn might most worthely think them selfes happiest But since I am so certaine thexcellencie of hys actes and the basenes of my braine to be so far at oddes as ought that I could vtter in his prayse should rather obscure and darken them and as it wear washe iuery with inke then gyue theim their due light and life let no man look that I will here enterprise too deale with the woorthines of hys commēdacions who both haue another matter in hande and they agayne beyng suche as might by them selues be an ample theame for a right good witte whearin to saye eyther litle or insufficiently wear better in my mynde leaft vnattēpted say nothing at al. Mary an Epigram made vpon the Citezens receyuing of his grace and for gratulaciō of his great successe and saufe retourne the whiche I had or rather to saie truth and shame the deuel for out it wool I stale perchaūce more familiarly then frendly from a frende of myne I thought it not muche a mis for the neatnes of making and fynenes of sense and sumwhat also to serue if reason woold beare it in lieu of my lacke here too place Aspice nobilium Dux inclyte turba virorum Vtque alacris latos plebs circūfusa per agros Te patriae patrem communi voce salutent Scilicet et Romam victo sic hoste Camillus Sic redijt victor domito Pompeius Iarba Ergo tuus felix reditus praesentia felix Vtque Angli fusique tua gens effera Scotti Dextra qua nūquam visa est victoria maior Det Deus imperium per te coeamus in vnum Simus vnanimes per secula cūcta Britanni Though I plainly told ye not that my frēdes name wear Armigil Wade yet ye that know the man his good litterature hys witte and dexteritee in all his doinges marke the well couchynge of hys clue mighte haue a great ges of whose spinnyng the threde wear But why these warres by our late souereign Lorde the kynges Maiestie deceased a Prince moste woorthy of eterne fame whose soule God haue wear in hys dayes begunne and yet to cōtinued Forasmuche as by sundry publicacion of dyuers wrytynges aswell then as since the iust title of our kynge vnto Scotland the Scottes often deceites vntrueths of promyse and periurie hathe bene among other in the same writinges so manifestly vttred I entend not here now to make it ony part of my matter which is but onely a iournall or diarie of this expediciō into Scotland whearin I haue digested our euery daies dedes orderly as they wear doō with their circumstaunces so nie as I could from the tyme of my lord Protectours grace cummyng to Newcastell vntyll or breakyng vp of the campe frō Rokesborow And herein I dout not but many thinges bothe right necessarie woorthy to be vttred I shall leaue vntold but sure rather of ignoraunce then of purpose Although in dede I knowe it weare metest for ony writer in thys kynde to be ignoraūt of fewest and writyng of most yet truste I agayne it will be consydered that it is neyther possible for one mā to know all nor shame to be ignoraunt in that he cannot knowe But as touchynge dedes well doon being within the cumpas of my knowledge as so God helpe me I mynde to expresse no mās for flatterie so wyll I suppresse no mās for malice This battell and felde now whiche is the most principall part of my matter the Scottes we are not yet agreed how it shal be named we cal it Muskelborough felde because that is the best towne and yet bad inough nigh the place of oure metīg Sum of thē cal it Seton felde a toune thear nie too by meanes of a blynd prophecie of theirs whiche is this or sum suche toy Betwene Setō the sey many a man shall dye that daye Sum wyll haue it Fauxside Bray feld of the hil for so they cal a Bray vpon the syde whearof our foreward stoode redy to cum doune and ioyne Sum oother will haue it Unreskfeld in the fallowes whear of they stoode we met Sum will haue it Walliford feld sum no feld at all for that they say thear wear so few slain and that we met not in a place by appointement certayn according to the order and maner of battell with suche like fonde argumentes Mary the hinderars of thys metynge I thinke for their meanyng small synne to beshrew They of thys haste hoped to haue had the hole aduantage for what they dyd appoynte vppon with out warnyng then so early to dislodge and so hastely tapproche who cannot iudge And whither thei mēt to make a feld of their fight or ment too fighte at all or not iudge ye by thys that after ye here Certayne it is that agaynste their assemble and our encounter for they wear not vnware of our cummynge in the former parte of the yere they had sent letters of warnīg to the states of their Realme and then caused the fier crosse in moste places of theyr countrey to be caried whearof the solempnitee is neuer vsed but in an vrgent nede or for a greate poure eyther for defence of theim selues or invasion of vs. And thys is a crosse as I haue hard sum say of .ii. brandes endes caried a crosse vpon a spears point with proclamaciō of the time and place whā and whither they shall cū and with how much prouision of vitail Sum other say it is a cros ▪ painted al red and set for certayn dayes in the feldes of that Baronrie whearof they will haue the people too cum whearby all betwene sixty and sixten are peremtorily summoned that if they cum not wyth their vitayll accordyng at the tyme and place then appointed all the lond thear is forfaited straight to the kynges vse and the tariers taken for traitours and rebels
By reason of which letters fyercros thear wear assembled in their camp as I haue hard sū of thē selues not of the meanest sort to confesse aboue .xxvi. M. fighting footmen beside .ii. M horsemē prickers as they cal them and hereto .iiii. thousande I rishe Archers brought by therle of Arguile all whiche sauing certaī that we had slayne the day before cam out of theyr campe to encoūter with vs. Now whear they wil haue it no felde let thē tell their cardes and coūt their wynnyng and they shall fynde it a felde howbeit by myn assent we shall not herein muche stick with thē since both without them the truthe shall haue place and also by the curtesie of gaming we ought sumwhat to suffer and let euer the losers haue their libertie of woordes But whatsoeuer it wear felde or no feld I dare be bold to sai not one of vs all is ony whit prouder of it then woold be the tooth that hathe byt the tung ootherwise then in respect that they wear our mortal enemies and woold haue doon asmuche or more to vs nor are nothing so fain to haue beaten theim as enemyes as we woold reioyce to receiue them as frendes nor are not so glad of the glorie of thys felde as we woold be ioyfull of a stedfaste atonement whearby like cuntreymen and cuntreymen like frend frend nay like broother and broother we might in one perpetual and brotherly life ioyn loue ▪ lyue together accordynge as thearunto bothe by the appointement of God at the firste and by continuaūce of nature since we seme to haue bene made and ordeyned seperate by seas from all oother nacions in customes and conditions littell differinge in shape and langage nothynge at all The whych thynges oother nacions viewing in chartes and redyng in bookes and thear with hering thys tumult thys rightyng these incursions and intestine warres betwene vs do thearat no lesse marueyl and blesse thē then they woold too here Gascoing fight with Fraūce Aragone with Spayne Flaūders with Brabāt or to speake more nere and naturally frende with frende brother with brother or rather hand with hand To the Scottes That no litle bothe woōder and wo it is to me my Cūtreemen for I can vouchsafe ye well the name to cōsider what thing might moue ye what tale might incense ye what drifte force ye what charme enchaūt ye or what furie coniure ye so fondly to flye from cōmō sense as ye shoulde haue nede to be exhorted to that for the whiche it wear your partes most chefly to sue so vntowardly to turne from humaine reason as ye wil be the hynderars of your owne weales so vntruly to swarue from the bondes bothe of promise and coouenaūt as ye wyll nedes prouoke your frendes to plaine reuēgement of opē war Your frendes in dede nay neuer wynke at the woorde that haue so long before these warres forborne oure quarels soo iust that wear so loth to begyn and since that suffred so many iniuries vnreuēged entreating your men taken not as captiues of oure mortall enemyes but as Ambassadours of oure derest frendes Oh how may it be thought to be possible that ye shoulde euer forget or els not euer remember the great munificence of our most magnificent prince our late kyng that when with most crueltie by slaughter of subiectes and burnyng of tounes At Allowentide M.d.xlii your last king Iamy with all your nobilitee had inuaded hys Realme and soone after the inuincible pollecie of my lorde Protectours grace then liyng at Anwike as lord wardeyn of our Marches by the suffraūce of Gods fauour which thākes to his Maiestie hath not yet to left vs at Solom Mosse made them captyue and thrall to our prynces oune will with whom for their dedes if hys hyghnes had delt then as they had deserued what should haue blamed hym or who coulde haue controlled since what he could doo they could not resiste and what he should do they had set hym a sample But hys Maiestie among the houge heape of oother hys pryncely vertues beyng euer of nature so enclined too clemencie as neuer of will would vse extremite euen straight forgettinge who they wear and soone forgyuynge what they hadde doon did not onely then receyue theym into hys highnes grace place euery of them with one of hys nobilitie or counsayll not in pryson lyke a captiue pardon theim their raundsommes whearwith if they be ought woorth sum Prince mighte haue thought hymn selfe ryche and hereto most frendely for the tyme they wear here entertein them but also of hys Princely liberalitee impartinge treasure at their departing to eche of them all dyd set theim francke and free at their own doores Touchinge theyr sylkes their cheynes and theyr chere besyde I mynde not here amōg matters of weight to tary on such trifles Mary thear be amoong vs that saw their habite and porte bothe at their cummynge and at their departinge Take it not that I hit you here in the teeths with oure good turnes yet knowe I no cause more then for humanitees sake why ye shoulde bee forborne but as a man may sumtyme without bost of hym selfe say symply the thing that is true of him selfe so maye the subiect without obbraid of benefites recount the bounty of hys Princes larges Although perchaūce it wear not much agaīst manerflatly to break curtesy with thē who either of rechelesnes forget their frendes benignitie or els of ingratitude will not acknowledge it To my matter now What woold Cyrus Darius or Anniball in this case haue doon noble cōquerours and no tyrauntes but why so far of what woold your owne kinge Iamy haue doon naye what kynge els woolde haue doon as our kyng dyd but sūwhat to saie more As our prince in cases of pitee was of hys own disposiciō most merciful so wanted thear not then of cōsaillours very nere about hys highnes that shewed them selues their frendes furthered hys affectes in that behalfe to the vttermost being thus perswaded that as ye of the nobilitee appered men neither rude of behauour nor base of birth soo ye woold neuer shew your selues inhumaine and ingrate towardes hym too whome ye should be so depely bounde And though since that tyme God haue wrought hys wyll vpon hys Maiestie a losse to vs sure woorthy neuer inough to haue be lamented but that hys mercie hathe agayn so bountifully recompensed vs wyth an image so nie representyng hys fathers Maiestie and vertues of so great hope and towardnes yet be thear leaft vs moste of the coūsailours we had who vpon occasion will bend bothe pour and wil to shew you further frendshippe In parte of proof thearof to speake now of later daies how many meanes and weys hath my lord Protectours grace within his tyme of gouernaūce vnder the kinges Maiestie that now is attēpted and vsed to shōne these warres and show him selfe your frēde what pollecie hathe he left vnproued what
me that it was to much then to be shewed in few woordes here Uery few thinges els to say truth that haue bene ony wher in these warres agaiÌ„st the enemie eyther nobly attempted or valiauntly acheued whearin his lordship hath not bene eyther the first ther in office or one of the foremost in daunger That if it fel so fete for my purpose to speake of his lordships honour at home as it hath doon sumwhat to touch his proowes abrode I coulde sure for commeÌ„dacion thearof moue my self matter wherin I wear able to sai rather liberally much then skarcely inough but omittiÌ„g that thearfore to turne to my tale agaiÌ„ his lordship regarding the dauÌ„ger our rerewarde was in by reason of disorder caused at this passage by the thicknes of this mist nienes of the enemies himselfe skant with a .xvi. horse wherof Barteuile Ihon de Ribaude wear .ii vii or .viii. light horsemen mo the reste of his own seruauntes returned towarde the passage to see to the arraye agayne The Scottes perceyuyng our horsemeÌ„ to haue past on before thinkiÌ„g as the truth was that sum Capitain of honour did stay for the lookynge to the order of thys rerewarde kepinge the Southsyde of the Ryuer did call ouer to sum of our meÌ„ to knowe whither ther wear ony noble man nie thear they wear askt why they askt one of theÌ„ aunswered that he was such a maÌ„ whose name our meÌ„ knew to bee honorable among theÌ„ woold cum in to my lordes grace so that he mought be sure to cum in safetie our yooÌ„g souldiours nothing suspecting their auncieÌ„t falshed tolde him that my lorde LieutenauÌ„t the erle of Warwyke was nie thear by whose tuicioÌ„ he shuld be safely broughte to my lordes graces presence thei had cund their lesson fel to their practise which was this hauing cuÌ„meÌ„ ouer the water in the way as my lorde should passe they had couched behinde a hillok about a .ii. C. of their prickers a .xl. had they sent besyde to search whear my lord was whom wheÌ„ thei fouÌ„d part of them prickt very nie these agayne a .x. or .xii. of my lordes small coÌ„panie did boldly encouÌ„ter draue theÌ„ wellnie home to their ambush fliynge perchauÌ„ce not so much for fear of their force as for falshod to trap theÌ„ But hereby enformed that my lord was so nie they sent out a bigger nuÌ„ber kept the rest more secret vpon this purpose that they might eyther by a playn onset haue distrest him or els that not preuaylinge by feyning of flight to haue trayned him into their ambushe thus instruct they cam prickiÌ„g toward hys lordshippe a pace why ê™ he wil not these knaues be ruled geue my staff the which then with so valiaunt a corage he charged at one as it was thought DaÌ„dy Car a Capitayn among theÌ„ that he did not onely coÌ„pel Car to turne him self chased him aboue .xii. skore together all the way at the spear point so that if Carres horse had not ben exceding good wight his lordship had surely ruÌ„ him thrugh in this race but also with his litle bande caused all the rest to flee a main After whom then as Henry Uane a gentlemaÌ„ of my lordes one of this coÌ„pany did fiersly pursue foure or .v. scottes sodeÌ„ly turned set vpoÌ„ him though thei did not alltogether skape his haÌ„des free yet by hewyng maÌ„gling hys hed body many places els they did so cruelly entreat him as if reskue had not cum the sooner thei had slaiÌ„ him out right but saued as he was I dare be bolde to sai many a M. in war els whear haue dyed with les then half the les hurt Here was Barteuile run at sydeling and hurt in the buttok one of our men slayn Of Scottes again none slaiÌ„ but .iii. takeÌ„ whearof one was Richarde Maxwell hurt in the thigh who had bene long in EngloÌ„d not loÌ„g before had receyued right many benefites as I harde himself coÌ„fesse both of the late kinges Maiestie of my lord LieutenauÌ„t of many other nobles geÌ„tlemen in the court beside thearfore for his ingratitude trayterous vntruth threatened too be haÌ„ged But as otherwise he had a great dele to much more then he deserued so had he here sumwhat to litle for how my lordes grace bestowed hym I wot not but hanged in dede he was not To make my tale per fit it is certeinly thought that if my lorde Lieutenaunt had not thus valiauÌ„tly encountred theÌ„ ear thei coulde haue warned their ambushe how weakly he was warded he had bene beset rouÌ„d about by theÌ„ ear euer he could haue bene ware of theÌ„ or reskued of vs wher now hereby his Lordeship shewed hys wooÌ„ted woorthines saued hys cuÌ„panie discoÌ„fited the enemie Soon after he ouertooke my lord Protectour being as then set at dyner to whom he presented these prisoners recounted hys adueÌ„tures whose grace in the mean tune had hapt vpoÌ„ a fellowe lyke a man but I wot not of what sorte smal of stature red hedded curld rounde about shedded afore of a .xl. yere old calde himself Knockes To say sumwhat of his hauour his cote was of the coulor of a wel burnt brik I meaÌ„ not blak wel worth xx d a brode yarde it was pretely fresed half with an ado heÌ„med rouÌ„d about very sutably with pasmaiÌ„ lace of grene caddis me thought he represented the state of a suÌ„ner in sum citee or of a pedler in sum boorowe how far so euer he had trauayled that day he had not a whit fyled his bootes for he had none on harmles bilyke for he ware no weapon he rode on a trottynge tyt well woorth a coople of shillynges the loss whereof at his takyng he toke very heuely yet did my lordes grace caus him to be set on a better I take his learning was but smal but his vttraunce was greate sure for he neuer lind babeling very moyst mouthed and somewhat of nature disposed to slauer and therfore fain without a napkin to wype hys lyppes to suppe at euery woord sum said it was no faut in the man but the maner of the cuntree in dede they haue many moyst mystes thear no lak of audacity nor store of wit for beynge taken brought in for a spie posed in that pointe whyther he went neither by the honestie of hys erraunde nor goodnes of his wit was he able to make ony lykely excuse the tenoure of his talke so tempred thoorow out and the most of hys matter so indifferently mingled as yf they make hym not bothe it was harde for any theare to iudge whether they might rather counte hym a folish knaue or a knauishe foole at whome my lordes grace and other had right good sport As Barteuile that day had righte honestly serued so did the lordes righte honorably quite yt for straight vpon the ouertakynge of my
prety while ouerseen he retorned by Muskelborowe and so along by the Frythe diligently markyng and notyng thinges by the way And aswell in his retorne as in his out goyng many wear the houses gentlemen and oother that vpon submission his grace receiued in to his protection This dai my lords grace aswell for countenaunce of buyldyng as though he woold tary long as also to kepe our Pioners sumwhat in exercise whoō a litle rest woolde soone make nought caused along the east syde of Lyeth a greate dich and trench to be cast toward the Frith the woorke whearof cōtinued till the mornyng of our departyng ¶ My Lorde Clynton Thursday the xv of septēber hye Admiral as I said of this flete takyng with hym the galley whearof one Broke is Captain and .iiii. or .v. of our smaller vessels besides all well appoynted with municion men rowed vp the Frith a ten myle westward to an hauen toun stondyng on the south shore called Blaknestes whearat towardes the water syde is a castel of a prety strength As nie whearvnto as the depth of the water thear woold suffer the Skots for sauegard had laied the Mary willough by and the Antony of Newcastel .ii. tall ships whiche with extreme iniurie they had stollē from vs before tyme whē no war betwene vs with these ley thear also an oother large vessel called by them the Bosse and a .vii. mo whearof part laden with marchaūdize my lord Clynton his cōpenie with right hardy approche after a great conflict betwixt the castel our vessels by fyne force wan from them those .iii. ships of name burnt all the residew before their faces as they ley Friday the .xvi. of september ¶ The lard of Brimston a Skottish gentleman who cam to my lordes grace from their counsell for caus of communicacion bilyke retourned again to them hauing with him Norrey an herauld king of armes of ours whoo foūd them with the olde quene at Sterlyng a toun stondyng westward vppon the Frith a .xx. mile beyond Edinborowe ¶ Thear was a fellowe taken in our cāpe Saterday the xvii of september whoō the Scottes called English William an English man indede that before tyme hauyng doon a robery in Lincolnshier did after rū awai into Scotlād at this time cūmē out of Edēborowe castel as a spie for ȳe Scottes was spied himself with the maner and hāged for his mede in the best wise bicaus he wel deserued vpō a nue giebet somewhat biside our camp in the sight bothe of the toun castel God haue mercy on his soule Thear is no good logicioner but woold think I thīk that a Syllogisim thus formed of such a theuing maior a rūaway minor and a trayterous consequent must nedes prooue at the weakest to such a hanging argument Sir Ihon Luttrell knight hauyng bene by my lords grace and the counsell elect Abbot by gods suffraunce of the monastery of sainct Coomes Ins afore remembred in the after noon of this day departed towardes the Iland to be stalled in his see thear accordyngly had with him a coouent of a C. hakbutters and .l. pioners to kepe his house and land thear and .ii. rowe barkes well furnished with municion .lxx. mariners for them to kepe his waters Whearby it is thought he shal soō becū a prelate of great powr The perfytnes of his religion is not alwaies to tarry at home but sumtime to rowe out abrode a visitacion when he goithe I haue hard say he taketh alweyes his sumners in barke with hym which ar very open mouthed neuer talk but they ar harde a mile of so that either for looue of his blessynges or feare of his cursinges he is lyke to be sooueraigne ouer most of his neighbours My lords grace as this day geuyng warnyng that our departure shoold be on the morowe and myndynge before with recompence sumwhat according to rewarde one Bartō that had plaid an vntrue part cōmaunded that ouer night his hous in Lyeth shoolde be set afyer And as the same thesame night about .v. of the clok was doon many of our souldiours that wear very forward in fyering fyered with al hast all the toun besyde But so farfoorth as I may thinke without commissiō or knowledge of my lords grace as right many horses both of his graces and of diuers others wear in great daunger ear they coold be quited then from out of the toun .vi. greate ships liyng in the hauen thear that for age and decay wear not so apt for vse wear then also set a fyer which all the night with great flame did burne very solemnly In the tyme of our here campynge many lardes and gentlemen of the cuntry nie thear cam in to my lorde to require his protection the whiche his grace to whoom he thought good did graunt This day also cam the erle Bothwell to my lordes grace a gentleman of a right cumly porte and stature and hereto of right honourable and iust meanyng and dealyng toward the kyngs maiestie whoom my lords grace did thearfore accordyng vnto his degree demerites very frendly welcum and entertein hauing supped this night with his grace he then after departed Thear stode southwestward about a quarter of a mile from our cāpe a monasterie thei call it holly roode abbey sir Water Bonhā and Edward Chāberlayne gat lycence to suppresse it whearupō these commissioners makyng first theyr visitacion thear they found the moōks all gone but the church and mooch parte of the house well coouered with leade soon after thei pluct of the leade had doun the bels which wear but .ii. and accordyng to the statute did sumwhat hearby disgrace the hous As touchyng the moōkes bicaus they wear gone thei put them to their pencions at large Sunday the xviii of september ¶ My lords grace for consideracions moouyng hym to pitee hauing al this while spared Edinborowe from hurt did so leaue it but Lieth and the ships still burnyng soon after vii of the clock in this morenyng caused the cāpe to dislodge And as we wear parted from whear we laye the castel shot of a peal with chambers hardely all of a .xxiiii. peces we marched sowtheast from the Frith into the landward But part of vs kept the wey that the chiefe of the chase was continued in whearby we founde most parte of the dead corpses liyng very rufully with the colour of their skynnes chaūged grenish about the place they had be smitten in and as thento abooue grounde vnberied many also we perceyued to haue bene beried in Undreske church yarde the graues of whoom the Scots had very slyly for sight coouered agayn with grene turfe By diuerse of these dead bodies wear thear set vp a stik with a clowte with a rag with an olde shoe or sū oother marke for knowlege the which we vnderstode to be markes made by the frendes of the partie dead when they had found him whoō
september ¶ This mornyng my lords grace hauyng deputed my lord Gray to receyue the rendryng of the castell and Sir Edward Dudley after to be captayn of the same They both departed to yt at the time set Androwe Hume and .iiii. oother of the chefest thear with hym cam out yeldyng the castell deliuered my lord the keis His lordship causyng the residue also to cumme out then sauyng .vi. or .vii. to kepe their baggage wtin who all wear in number .lxxviii entred the same with master Dudley and diuers oother gentlemeÌ„ with him He found thear indifferent good store of vytayle wyne and of ordinaunce twoo basterd culuerins one sacre .iii. fawconets of bras and of iren viii peces beside The castell stondeth vppon a rocky crag with a prowd heith ouer all the contrie about it on euery syde well me fenced by marrysh allmost rounde in foorme with thik walls â–ª which is a rare thing vpoÌ„ so hie and stonie a grouÌ„d A faire well within yt The kepyng of this castell my lord betakyng vnto master Dudley accordyngly retourned to my lordes grace at the campe We reised Friday the xxiii of september and cam that mornyng to Rokesborow and iii. myle from Hume our camp occupied a greate fallowe felde betwene Rokesborowe and Kelseye stondyng eastward a quarter of a myle of a prety market toun to but they wear all goon foorth thear My Lordes grace wyth dyuers of the Counsell and Sir Richard lee knight whose chardge in this expedycyon spetially was to appoynt the pioners ech whear in woork as he shoolde thynke meete and then whear my lordes grace assigned to deuyse the fourme of byldyng for fortificacion whoom suerly the goodnes of his wytt and hys greate experience hath made in that science right excellent went straight to Rokesborowe to caste what thear for strengthnyng might be doon The plot and syte whearof hath bene in tyme paste a Castell Rokesborow and standeth naturally very strong vpon a hyll east and west of an eyght skore in length and .iii. skore in bredth drawynge to narownes at the easte ende the hole grounde whearof the old walles doo yet enuyron Besyde the heyth and hardines to cum to it is stroÌ„gly fenced on eythter syde with the course of ii great riuers Tiuet on the north and Twede on the sowth both which ioyning sum what nie to gyther at the west ende of it Tyuet by a large cumpas a bowte the feldes wee laye in at Kelsey dooth fall into this Twede which with greate deapth swiftnes runneth from thence eastward into the sea at Berwyk and is notable and famous for .ii. commodities specially Salmons and whetstones Ouer this betwyxte kelsey and Rokesborowe hath thear bene a great stone bridge with arches the which the Skottes in time paste haue all to broken bycaus we shoold not that wei cum to them SooÌ„ after my Lords graces survey of the plot and determinacion to doo asmuch indeede for makynge it defensyble as shortnes of the tyme and season of the yere could suffer which was that one great trench of twenty foot brode with deapth accordyng and a wall of lyke breadth and heyth shoold be made a cros with in the castel from the tone side-wall to thoother and a .xl. foot from the west ende and that a like treÌ„ch and wall shoold likewise be cast a trauers within about a quoyts cast froÌ„ theast ende and hereto that the castell walles on either syde whear neede was shoolde be mended with turfe and made with loop-holes as well for shooting directly foorthward as for flankyng at hand the woork of which deuise did make that bisyde the sauegard of these trenches walles the kepers shoold also be much fenced by both the ende walles of the castel the pioners wear set a woork and diligently applied in the same ¶ This day the Lard of Cesfoorth and many oother lards and gentlemen of Tyuetdale and their marches thear hauyng cum and communed with my Lordes grace made vs an assuraunce which was a frendship and as it wear a truis for that daye till the next day at nyght ¶ This daye in the meane while theyr assuraunce lasted these Lardes and gentlemen aforesayde beyng the Chefeste in the hole marches and Tyuetdale cam in agayn whoom my Lords grace with wysdom and pollecie without any fightynge or bloodshed dyd wyn then vnto the obedience of the kyngs maiestie for the whyche they dyd wyllyngly then also receyue an oth whose names ensue Lards The lard of Ceffoorth The lard of Fernyherst The lard of Grenehed The lard of Hunthill The lard of Hundley The lard of Markestone by mersyde The lard of Bouniedworth The lard of Ormeston The lard of Mallestaynes The lard of Warmesey The lard of Lynton The lard of Egerston The lard of Marton The lard of Mowe The lard of Ryddell The lard of Reamersyde Gentlemen George Trombull Iohn Hollyburton Robert Car. Robert Car of Greyden Adam Kyrton Andrew Meyther Saunder Spuruose of Erleston Mark Car of Litleden George Car of Faldenside Alexander Makdowell Charles Rotherford Thomas Car of the yere Ihon Car of Meynthorn Walter Holy burton Richard Hanganfyde Andrew Car. Iames Douglas of Eauers Iames Car of MersyngtoÌ„ George Hoppringlâ—â— William Ormeston of Endmerden Ihon Grymslowe Many wear thear mo besyde whose names also for that they remayne in regester with these I haue thought the lesse mister here to wryt My lords grace did tender so mooch the furtherauÌ„ce of the work in the castell that this daie as euery day els duryng our campynge thear his grace dyd not styk to digge with a spade abooue .ii. houres him self Curti. lib. viii whearby as his estate sure was no more embased then the maiestie of great AlexaÌ„der what time with his oun haÌ„des he set the poor colde soldiour in his oun chaire of estate â–ª to releeue hym by his tier So by the example herof was euery man so mooued as thear wear but fewe of Lordes knightes and gentlemen in the feld but with spade shoouell or mattook did thearin right willyngly vncompeld their partes Sunday the xxv of september ¶ This daye began the Skottes to brynge vitayll to our campe for the whiche they wear so well entreated and paide that durynge the tyme we laye thear we wanted none of the commodities their coÌ„try coold minister Munday the xxvi of september ¶ No notable thyng but the continuaunce of our woork at the Castell for furtheraunce whearof order was taken that the Captayns of footmen eche after oother shoolde send vp his C. of souldiours thither to woorke an houres space ¶ The larde of Coldehamknowes not hauyng so fully kepte hys appoyntment made at Hume Castell touchyng his cummynge agayn to my Lordes grace Tuisday the xxvii of september at Rokesborowe Sir Raufe Uane with a twoo or .iii. C. horses about .iii. of the clock in this mornyng was sent for hym to his house whiche was a .vii.
myte from vs the whyche chardge Master Uane dyd so earnestly applye as he was thear wyth his number before .vi but the Larde whither he was warned thearof by priuie skout or spie he was passed by an oother waye and was soon after .vii. with my Lordes grace in the cāpe master Uane was welcūmed and hauing no resistaunce made but al submitted proffer of chere for so had the lorde charged his wyfe to doe soon after he retourned to the campe This day my lordes grace was certefied by letter from my lorde Clynton and sir Andrew Dudley that on the wednesday last beyng the .xxi. of this moōth after certein of their shott discharged against the castell of Browghty Crak thesame was yeldyn vnto them the whiche sir Andrew dyd then enter and after kepe as captain Wedynsday the .xxviiii. of september ¶ A Skottysh heraulde accumpanied with certein Frēchmen that wear perchaunce more desierous to marke our armie then to wit of our welfare cam and declared from their coūsell the within a seuenight after their commissioners to whoom my lords grace had before graunted his safecundet shoold cum commune with our counsel at Berwyk whose cūming my lorde Lieutenaūt master Treasurer thoother of our commissioners did so long while there abyde But these Skottes as men that ar neuer so iuste and in nothing so true as in breache of promys and vsyng vntruth neither cam nor by like ment to cū And yet sure take I this no fetch of no fine deuise ōles thei mean hereby to wyn that thei shal nede neuer after to promys vsyng the feate of Arnus In Epigrā Mor◠who with his all weys swearyng and his euer liyng at last obteined that his bare woorde was as much in credyt as his solemn oth but his solemn oth indeede no more then an impudent lye Howbeit since I am certeyn that sundry of them haue shewed themselues right honest I woold be loth here to be coūted so vnaduised as to arret the fautes of many to the infamie of al. It was sayde amoong vs they had in the meane tyme receyued letters of consolacion and of many gay offers from the French kyng yet had that bene no cause to haue broken promys with the coūsel of a Ream Howbeit as these letters wear to thē but an vnprofitable plaster to heale their hurt then so ar thei full likly if thei trust much therin to fynd thē a corzey that will freate them a nue sore ¶ My lords grace consideryng that of vertue and welldooyng the proper mede is honour Aswell thearfore for rewarde to them that had afore doon well as for cause of encoorage to oother then after to doo the lyke dyd this daye after noon adourne many Lordes knyghtes and gentlemen with dignitees as folowe The names and promotiōs of whoō I haue here set in order as they wear placed in the herauldes book Sir Rafe Sadlier Banereis Treasurer Sir Fraunces Bryan Capteyn of the light horsmen Sir Rafe Uane Lieutenaūt of all the horsmen These knightes wear made Banerettes a dignitie abooue a knight and next to a Baron whose acts I haue partly touched in the story before Knightes ▪ The lord Grace of Wylton high Marshall The lord Edward Seimor my lordes graces sun Of these the reder shal also fynde before The lord Thomas Haward The lord Walldyke Sir Thomas Dacres Sir Edward Hastyng Sir Edmund Brydges Sir Ihō Thinne my lords graces Stuard of howshold Sir Miles Partrich Sir Ihon Conwey Sir Giles Poole Sir Rafe Bagnolle Sir Oliuer Laurence Sir Henry Gates Sir Thomas Chaloner one of the Clerks of the kyngs maiesties priuie coūsel and in this armie as I mought call him chefe secretarie who with his great peyns and expedite diligēce in dispatch of things passyng from my lords grace and the coūsel thear did make that his merite was not with the meanest Sir Fraunces Flemmynge master of thordinaunce thear a gentlemā whoom long exercise good obseruaunce hath made in that feate right perfit whear vnto in this viage he ioyned so mooch hede and diligence as it was well found how much his seruice did stede Sir Ihon Gresham Sir William Skipwyth Sir Ihon Buttes Sir George Blaag Sir William Frauncis Sir Fraunces Knolles Sir William Thorborow Sir George Haward Sir Iames Wylforde Sir Rauf Coppinger But that I haue writtē in the storie before with what forward hardines Sir George haward did bear the kings maiestie stāderd in the battail thear also of the industrious peyn of sir Iames Wilford how sir Rauf Coppīger did aied not smally in saufgard of the standard of our horsmen I woolde haue bene more diligent to haue rehersed it here Sir Thomas Wētwoorth Sir Ihon Maruen Sir Nychās Straunge Yet knightes Sir Charles Sturton Sir Hugh Askue Sir Frauncis Salmyn Sir Richard Tounley Sir Marmaduke Cūstable Sir George Awdeley Sir Ihon Holcroft Sir Ihon Soutwoorth Sir Thomas Danby Sir Ihon Talbott Sir Rowland Clerk Sir Ihon Horsely Sir Iohn Forster Sir Christofer Dies iii. spaniards Sir Peter Negroo Sir Alonzo de vile Sir Henry Hussey Sir Iames Granado Sir Water Bonham Sir Robert Brādling mayr of new castell and made knight thear at my lordes graces retourne As it is not to be douted but right many mo in the armie beside these did also well and valiauntly quite them Although their prefermente was rather then differred then their deserts yet to forgotten euen so amōg these wear thear right many the knowledge of whose actes and demerytes I coold not cū by And yet woold haue no man no more to doubt of the worthines of their aduauncemēt then they ar certein of his circūspectiō and wisedome who preferd them to it Whearupon all mē may safely thus far foorth without offence presume that his grace vnworthely bestowed this honour on no man By this day as Rokesborowe was sufficiently made tenable and defensible that whiche to see my lordes grace semed half to haue vowed before he woold thence departe his grace and the counsell did first determine that my lord Gray shoold remayne vpō the borders thear as the kynges maiesties Lieutenaunt And then took ordre for the forts that sir Andrew Dudley Captein of Broughty Crak had leaft with hym CC. soldiours of hakbutters and oother and a sufficient number of pyoners for his works Sir Edwarde Dudley Captain of Hume castell lx hakbutters .xl. horsemē and a C. pioners Sir Rafe Bulmer captain of Rokesborowe CCC souldyours of hakbutters oother CC. pioners Thursday the xxix of september being Mighelmas day ¶ As thinges wear thus concluded warnyng gyuen ouer night that our cāpe shoold this day dissolue euery man fell to pakkyng a pace my Lordes grace this morening soon after vii of the clok was passed ouer the Twede here The best place whearof for gettīg ouer whych was ouer against the west ende of our cāp and not farr from the brokē atches of the brokē bridge was yet