lordes grace my Lorde Lieutenaunt did get him a surgion drest he was straight after layde and conueyed in my lordes graces own chariot that was both right sumptuous for cost and casy for caryage The rest that wear hurt wear here all so drest Scottes oother â—â—e had marched that day a ix mile and camped at night by a toun standyng vpon the Fryth called Lang Nuddrey Here â—â—e fouÌ„d a geÌ„tle woomaÌ„ some sayd a ladye the wyfe of one hugh Douglas she was greate with child in a house others thear abode her good tyme of deliueraunce had with her an auÌ„cient geÌ„tle woomaÌ„ her mother a mid wyfe a daughter whose estate the counsail vnderstaÌ„ding my lordes grace my lord Lieutenaunt took order that al night without daunger or domage she was well preserued but sone after our departure in the morenynge I harde that sum of our northerne prickers had visited her not muche for her profit â–ª nor al for their honesties that had they then bene caught with their kindnes thei should haue bene sure of thaÌ„kes accordyng â–ª good people be they but geuen much as thei say to the spoyle Thursdaye the viii of septeÌ„ber beynge our lady day ¶ This morning in the time of our dislodgiÌ„g sign was made to sum of our ships whereof the moste parte chefest lay a .x. or xii mile in the Fryth beyoÌ„d vs ouer againste Lyeth Edinborowe that the lord Admiral should cum a shore to speake with my lordes grace In the meane tyme sumwhat early as our galley was cuÌ„ming toward vs about a mile more beyond our caÌ„pe the Scots wear very busy a waftynge her a shore towarde them with a banner of Sainct George that they had but my Lorde Lieutenaunt soon disapointed the pollicie for makyng towarde that place wheare my Lord Admirall shoulde londe oure men on the water by the sighte of hys presence dyd soon discerne their frendes froÌ„ their foes By and by then my lorde Clynton the Admirall came to londe Who with my Lorde Lieutenaunte rode back to my lordes grace among whom order was taken that our greate ships should remooue from before Lyeth lye before Muskelborowe and their camp and oure smaller vessels that wear vitaillers to lye nerer vs. This thus apointed my lorde Admirall rode back to take the water agayne And as our armie had marched onwarde a mile or .ii. thear appered vpon a hill that lay longwise east west on the southsyde of vs vpoÌ„ a vi hundred of their horsmen prickers whearof sum within a .ii. flight-shot directly againste vs vpon the same hill and most further of towarde these ouer a small bridge for thear raÌ„ne a litle riuer also bi vs very hardely did ride about a dooseiÌ„ of our hakbutters on horsback and helde them at bay so me to their noses that whether it wear by the goodnes of our meÌ„ or badnes of theÌ„ the Scottes did not onely not cum doune to them but also very curteisiy gaue place fled to their fellowes yet I know they lack no hartes but thei caÌ„not so well away with these crakkes Our armie went on but so much the slowlyer because our way was sumwhat narowe by meanes of the Fryth on the tonesyde and certain marishes so nie on the toother The Scottes kepte alwayes pace with vs vpoÌ„ their hill and shewed themselfes vpon sundry bruntes very cranke brag at whom as our captains did loke to the ordryng and arraiyng again of the battailes my lord protectors grace appointed .ii. feld peces to be turned eche pece shot of twyse wherof one Gold that master guÌ„ner thear discharged the tone did so wel direct it that at his former shot he strook of the leg of a black horse right fair and as it was thought the best in the coÌ„pany at his next shot he kyld a man hereby rather sumwhat calmed then fully content thei went theyr wayes we saw no more of theÌ„ til the time of our caÌ„pyng then shewed thei theÌ„selues very lordly aloft vpoÌ„ thys hill againe oueragainst vs as though they stood there to take viewe of our campyng mouster of our men My lord Marshall myndyng to knowe theyr coÌ„missioÌ„ did make towarde theÌ„ with a band of horsmeÌ„ but they went wisely their way would neuer abyde the reasoning of the matter In the way as we came not far from this place George Ferrers a gentlemaÌ„ of my lord Protectors one of the coÌ„missioners of the cariages in this army happened vpon a caue in the ground the mouth whereof was so worne with the fresh printe of steps that he semed to be certayne thear wear sum folke within gone doune to trie he was redily receyued with a hakebut or .ii. He left them not yet till he had knowen whyther thei would be coÌ„teÌ„t to yelde cum out which they fondly refusyng he wente to my lordes grace and vpon vttraunce of the thyng gat lisence to deale with them as he coulde and so returned to them with a skore or two of pioners Three ventes had their caue that we wear wareof wherof he first stopt vp on anoother he fild ful of strawe and set it a fyer whearat they within caste water a pace but it was so well maynteyned without that the fyre preuailed and thei fayn within to get them belyke into anoother parler Then deuised we for I hapte to be with hym to stop the same vp whearby we should eyther smoother them or fynde out their ventes if thei had any mo as this was dooÌ„ at another issue aboute a .xii. skore of wee moughte see the fume of our smoke to cum oute the whiche continued with so great a force so long a while that we could not but thinke they must nedes get them out or smoother within and forasmuch as we found not that they dyd the tone we thought it for certain thei wear sure or the toother wee had dooÌ„ that wee came for and so lefte them ¶ By this time our ships takynge manerly their leaue of Lyeth wyth a skore of shot or more and as they came by salutyng the Scottes in their caÌ„pe also with as many cam laye accordynge to appoyntmente We had gone this day about a v. mile caÌ„ped towarde night nye a toune they call salte Preston by the Fryth Here one CharletoÌ„ a man before time banisht out of England continuyng all the while in Scotlande came in and submitted himselfe to my lordes grace who took hym to mercie Fryday the .ix. of september ¶ This dai is markt in the kallender with the name of saincte Gorgon no famous saint sure but eyther so obscure that no man knowes him or els so aunciente as euery man forgettes him Yet wear it both pitee and blame that he shoulde lose hys estimacion amonge vs. And methinkes oute of that litle that I haue red I coulde somewhat saye to bryng hym to lighte agayne
close in ambush and be redy at nede and of all these for certain not .vii. huÌ„dred to retourne home After this skirmish also hard we The lord Hume hurt that the lorde hume him self for hast in this flight had a fall from his horse and burst so the canell bone of his neck that he was fayn to be caryed straight to Edenborowe and was not a litle despayred of life Then also my lordes grace my lorde Lieutenaunte other of the counsel but with a small garde vpoÌ„ this Fauxsyd Bray where the slaughter as I said was made aboute halfe a myle southeast from them dyd take full viewe of their campe whereof the tentes as I noted then were deuided in to .iiii. seuerall orders and rewes liynge east west and a prikshot a sunder moustred not vnlyke as thought me vnto four great ridges of rype barly The Scottes campe The plot whear they lay so chosen for strength as in all their cuntrey sum thought not a better safe on the south by a greate marysh and on the north by the Fryth whiche syde also they fenced with .ii. felde peces and certeyn hakbuts a crok liynge vnder a turf wal EdeÌ„borowe on the west at their backes eastward betwene vs and them strongly defended by the course of a Ryuer called Eske runnyng north in to the Fryth whiche as yt was not very depe of water so wear the bankes of it so hie and stepe after the maner of the Peaths mencioned before in our mundais iourney as a small sort of resistauntes might haue bene able to kepe doun a great number of cummers vp Aboute a xii skore of from the Fryth ouer the same Ryuer is thear a stone bridge whiche thei did kepe also wel warded with ordinaunce FroÌ„ this hil of Fauxsyde Bray descended my lordes grace my lord Lieutenaunt and thoother along before their caÌ„pe wtin les then ii flightshottes into a lane or strete of a .xxx. foot brode fenced on eyther syde with a wall of turf an elle of height whiche wey dyd lead straigth northwarde and nie to a church called saint Mighels of Undreske stondynge vpon a mean risyng hill sumwhat higher then the site of their campe Thus this viewed they toke their returne directly homewarde to our teÌ„tes at whom in the way the Scottes did often shoot but with al their shot and of all our cumpenie they kylde but one horse in the midst of .iii. without ony hurt of the rider 〈…〉 ¶ And as my lordes grace was passed well nie half the way homeward a Scottish herauld with a cote of hys princes armes vpoÌ„ him as the maner is and with him a trumpetour did ouertake his grace we thought vpon sum message and thearfore euery maÌ„ gaue them place to cum saye their erraundes which as I mought ges partly by the aunswers as followe wear these The herauldes message or to this effect The heraulde first my lorde the Gouernor hath seÌ„t me to your grace to enquere of prisoners takeÌ„ and thear with to say that for the pitee he hath of effusioÌ„ of Christen bloude whiche by battaile must nedes be shed and bicause your grace hath not doen much hurt in the cuntree he is content ye shall returne as ye cam and wil proffer your grace honest condicions of peace And then the trumpetour The trumpetours errauÌ„d My lord my Master the earle of Huntley hath willed me to shewe your grace that bicause this matter may be the sooner ended with les hurt he wil fight with your grace for the hole quarell .xx. to xx.x. to .x. or els hymselfe alone with your grace man to man My lordes grace hauyng kept with him my lord Lieutenaunt had harde them both thrughly and then in aunsweryng spake sumwhat with lowder voice theÌ„ they had doon their messages whear vpon wee that wear the ryders by thynkyng his grace woulde haue it no secret wear sumwhat the bolder to cum the nigher The woordes whearof as semed me wear vttred so expeditely with honour and so honourable with expedicion as I was for my part much mooued then to dout whyther I mought rather note in them the proÌ„ptnes of a singuler prudeÌ„ce or the animositee of a noble coorage And thei wear thus your goouernour may knowe My lordes graces aunswers To the herauld that the speciall cause of our cummyng hyther was not to fight but for the thynge that shoulde be the weale of both vs and you for God we take to recorde wee mynd no more hurt to the Ream of Scotlande then we doo too the Ream of England thearfore our quarel beyng so good we truste God will prosper vs the better But as for peace he hath refused such condicions at our handes as we will neuer proffer again and thearfore let hym look for none til this wey we make it ¶ And thou Trumpet To the trumpetour say to thy Master he semeth to lak wit to make this challenge to me beynge of suche estate by the sufferaunce of GOD as haue so weighty a charge of so precious a iewel the goouernaunce of a kyngs parson and then the protection of all his reames whearby in this case I haue no powr of my self which yf I had as I am true gentleman it shoulde be the first Bargain I would make but thear be a great sort here amonge vs his equals to whom he mought haue made this challenge with out refusal ê™ my lord Lieutenaunt to them both he sheweth his small wit to make challeÌ„ge to my lords grace he so mean but yf his grace will geue me leaue I shall receiue it trumpet bryng me worde thy master wil so doo and thou shalt haue of me a C. crownes Nay quod my lordes grace the erle huntley is not mete in estate with you my lord But heraulde say to the gouernour and hym also that we haue bene a good seasoÌ„ in this cuÌ„trey Sober is the proper terme whearby the Scottes doo signifie smal litle easy or slender and ar here now but with a sobre cumpenie they a greate number yf they will mete vs in felde they shal be satisfied with fightynge ynough And heraulde bryng me worde they wil so doo by my honour I will geue the a thousand crounes Ye haue a proude sorte amonge you but I truste to see their pride abated shortly of the erle huntleys too iwys his corage is knoweÌ„ wel ynough but he is a glorious yoong gentleman This sayd my lord Lieutenaunt coÌ„tinued his requestes that he might receyue this challenge but my lordes grace woulde in no wyse graunte too it these messagers had their aunswers and thear with leaue to depart ¶ It is an auncient order in wâ—t inuiolably obserued that the herauldes trumpetours at ony tyme vpon necessarie messages may freely pas too and fro betwene the enemies without hurt or stay of ony as priuileged with a certein immunitee freedoÌ„ of passage
ye haue not yet cōmē to vs but kepe this hold thus we haue cause to take you as oure mere enemie And therefore be ye at this choyse for we wil take none auaūtage of your beīg here now whither ye your cōpanie will render your holde stonde body goodes at the order of oure will or els to be set in it again as ye were we wil assay to wyn it as we can The Capitayne beynge aboute this riddel brought in great doubt what aunswer well to make whyther best to do at last stroken with the feare of crueltie that by stubbernes he shoulde well deserue moued agayne wyth the hope of mercy that by submission he might hap to haue was content to render al at his graces pleasure and therupon commaunded to fetche hys cōpanye retourned to the Castel In the tyme of tariyng for fetchyng his garde we sawe oure ships with good gale and order fayre sayling into their Fryth The Fryth which is a great arme of the sea and runneth Westwarde into their countrey aboue .iiii. mile Upō this stādeth Lieth Blak nest Sterlinge sainct Ihōs Rode and all the beste tounes els in the Southpart of Scotlande This Capitayn came brought with him hys bāde to my lordes grace which was of xxi sober souldiours al so apparayled and appoynted that so God help me I will saye it for no praise I neuer saw such a bunche of beggers come out of one house together in my lyfe The Capitayne and .vi. of the worshipfull of the cōpanye were stayed commaundëd to the keping of the Prouost Marshal more hardly to take Mūdais handsell then for hope of auauntage the residue were licenced to gea their gate ▪ with this lesson that if they were euer knowen to practyse or do ought agaynste the army while it was in the countrey therupon takē they should be sure to be hāged After this surrender my lorde Ihon Gray beyng Capitayn of a nūber as for his approued worthines right wel he mought was appoīted to seaze take possessiō of the maner with al singular thappurtenaūces in to thesame belōging with whome as it hapt it was my chaūce to go thyther the spoile was not rych sure but of white bread oten cakes Scottishe ale wherof was indifferēt good store sone bestowed emōg my lordes souldiors accordingly as for swordes buklers pykes pottes panz yarne lynnē hēpe heaps of such baggage beside were skāt stopt for very liberally let alone but yet sure it would haue rued any good huswiues hart to haue beholden the great vnmerciful murder that our men made of the brood gees and good laīg hēnes that were slayn there that dai which the wyues of the toune had pēd vp in holes in the stables sellers of the castel eare we came In this meane time my lordes grace appoīted the house should be ouerthrowen wherupō the Capitain of the Pioners with a .iii. C of his laborers were sent doun to it whome he straight set a digging about the foūdaciō In the toun of dūglas the which we left vnspoyled vnburnt we vnderstode of the wiues for their husbādes wer not at home that it was George Douglash deuise cost to cast these crosse trēches at the peaths stode hī in .iiii. Scottish .l ' which is as much ster as iiii good english crounes of v.s̄ a pece a mete reward for such a worke Our Pioners were early at their worke again about the Castel Tuisdaye the vi of Septēber whose walles were so thick foūdaciō so depe ther to set vpon so craggy a plot that it was not an easy matter sone to vnderdig them Our army dislodged marched on In the wai we shuld go a mile a half frō Dūglas Northward ther were ii pyles or holdes Thornton Anderwike set both on craggy foundacion and deuided a stones cast a sunder by a depe gut wherein ran a litle Ryuer Thornton belōged to the lorde Hume Thornton and was kepte then by one Tom Trotter whereunto my lordes grace ouer night for summons sente Somerset hys Heraulde towarde whome .iii. or .v. of this Capitayns prikkers with their gaddes ready charged did righte hastely direct their course but Trotter both honestly defended the Heraulde sharply rebuked hys men and sayd for the summōs he woulde come speke with my lordes grace himself notwithstāding he came not but straight lokt vp a .xvi. poore soules like the souldiours of Dūglas fast within the house toke the keys with him cōmaunding them they shoulde defende the house tary within as they coulde not get out till his retorne whiche should be on the morow with municiō relief he with his prikkers prikt quite his ways Anderwyke perteined to the lorde of Hābleton Anderwyke and was kept by hys sonne heyre whom of custume they call the Master of Hābleton an .viii. more with hym To be knowē that the Scottes call the son and heyre of euery lord the Master of the house and surname wherof hys father is called lorde gentlemen for the moste part as we harde say My lordes grace at his comming nye sent vnto both these piles whiche vpon summōs refusing to rēder were straighte assayled Thornton by batrie of .iiii. of our great peces of ordinaūce certain of syr Peeter Mewtus hakbutters to watch the loopholes wyndowes on all sydes Anderwyke by a sorte of the same hakbutters alone who soo well besturd thē that whear these kepers had rāmed vp their outer dores cloyd stopt vp their stayres within kept thēselfes a loft for defence of their house about the battilmētes the hakbutters gat in fyered thē vnderneth wherby beyng greatly trobled with smoke smoother brought in desperaciō of defēce they called pitefully ouer their walles to my lordes grace for mercy who notwithstandinge their great obstinaci thēsample other of the enemies mought haue had by their punishmēt of his noble generosite by these wordes making half excuse for thē Men may some tyme do that hastely in a gere whereof after they mai soon repēt thē did take thē to grace thearfore sent one straight to thē But ere the messēger came the hakbutters had gottē vp to thē and killed viii of thē aloft one lept ouer the walles runninge more then a furlōg after was staī wtout in a water All this while at Thornton our assault their defence was stoutly cōtinued but well perceiuinge how on the tone side thei were batred mined on the other kept in with hakbutters rounde about sum of our men wtin also occupiyng al the house vnder thē for ther had likewise shopt vp thēselfes in the highest of their house so to do nothīg inward or outward neither by shotīg of base wherof they had but one or .ij. nor tumbling of stones the thinges of their chefe anoyaunce wherby thei might be able any while
but then am in doubte what to make of hym a he saint a she sainte or a neuter for we haue all in oure Kallendar Of the male and female sayntes euery leafe thear showthe samples inowe And as for the neuter they or rather I wot vnmarked theÌ„ vnknoweÌ„ as sainct Christmas s. CaÌ„delmas sainct Easter Sainct Whitsontide swete sainct Sunday that cums ones a weke Touchynge my doubte nowe If the day beare name in the woorship memorie of hym whome the preacher Horace doth meÌ„cion in his first booke of sermons by these wordes Pastillos Rufillus olet Satyr ii Phorcê° king of the Iles Corsica Sardinia had foure daughters Scylla Medusa Stenio Euriale called Gorgons of whome as Neptune had rauished Medusa Gorgon in the temple of Pallas This Goddes for displeasure of the fact chauÌ„ged al the heare of her hed into snakes and adders gaue her a further gyft that who so euer sawe her should be turned straighte into stone Perseus coueityng to kil this monster borowed of Mercurie his wyngs and faulchion and strooke of her hed as she slepte brought it with hym which Pallas dyd after set in her shelde it had the same pour still after as it had whyle she lyued Gorgonius hircum then may we be bold to beleue it was a he saiÌ„ct but yet a very sloouen saynt belyke a nesty If this name were Kallendred of Medusa Gorgon that had the heare of her hed tourned into adders whome Perseus ouercame and kylde as doctour Ouide declares in his .iiii. booke of chaunges Gorgonis anguicomae Perseus superator then maye we be sure it was a she saynte But yf it wear in the honour of Pallas shelde whearin thys Medusa GorgoÌ„s hed was graueÌ„ as Titus * Stroz. prÌ„ Aeolo .iiii. Stroza a deuout doctour to but of later daies doth say Gorgonis anguicomae caelatos aegide vultus Pallas habet Then was it neyther a he nor a she but a playne neuter saynte And thus with the aunciente authoritie of mere poeticall scriptures my conscience is so confounded as I wot not in the worlde what saynte to make of hym ‡ Iacob de voragine Iames of the synkhole sauyng your reuerence a trier forsooth that wrote the Legendaurie telleth me a very preposterous order in good cookerie of one * Legend autea cap. cxxviii GorgoÌ„ his fellow Dorotheus that wear first sauced with vineger and salt and after the then broiled on a girdyroÌ„ But to be playn as it is best for a man to be with his freÌ„des he hath farced hys boke so full of lyes that it is quite out of credite in al honest coÌ„pany And for my part I am half a shamed to say that I saw it but synce it is sayd sumwhat to tell you what that I sawe Thom. CaÌ„tuar ca. xi Lupus ca. cxxiii Petr. exorcist cap. lxxiiii Thaismere trix cap. cxlvii he makes me Thomas the traytour Lupus the Lechour Peter the knaue yf I may call a coÌ„iurer so Thais the hoor all to be hye holye sainctes in heaueÌ„ that with such prodigal impudeÌ„cie so shameles liyng as I may safely thinke he had eyther a Bul to make sainctes of diuels or els a placarde to play the knaue as he list But as for Gorgon be he as he be may yt makes no great matter for he shal haue my hart while he stoÌ„des in the kallender he hath bene euer so lucky But what saynte so euer he bee he is sure no Scottes mans frend but a very angry sainte towarde them for vpon hys daye .xxxiiii. yere paste they had a greate ouerthrowe by vs at Floddom feld and their kyng Iamy the fourth slayn and thearfore is this day not smally markt among them To tell our aduentures that befell now vpon it I thinke it very mete that fyrste I aduertise how here as we lay our campe and theirs wear eyther within the sight viewe of oothers indistauÌ„ce as I gest a .ii. myle litle more a sunder we had the Fryth on the north this hil last remembred as I sayd on the south the west ende Whereof is called Fauxsyde Bray Fauxsyde Bray whereupon staÌ„deth a sory castell and half a skore houses of lyke woorthines by yt And had westward before vs the liyng in campe A long this hill beinge aboute a mile from vs were they very bisy prankyng vp and doune all the motenyng and fayne would haue bene a counsayll with the doinges of our campe We agayne because their armie semed to sit to receyue vs dyd diligentely prepare that we might soon go to them and therefore kept our campe all that daye my lordes grace and the counsaill sittyng in coÌ„sultacion the captains officers prouidyng their bandes store of vitaile furniture of weapon for furtheraunce whearof our vessels of municioÌ„ and vitailes wear here all redy come to the shore The Scottes continued their brauerie on the hill the whiche we not being so well able to beare made oute a band of light horsmeÌ„ a troop of dimilaunces to back theÌ„ our men gat vp on the hill therby of euen ground with the enemye rode straight towarde them with good spede and order Whome at the first the Scottes did boldly countenaunce abyde but after when their perceyued that our men woulde nedes cum on thei began to pricke and would fayn haue begon ear they had tolde their erraund but our meÌ„ hasted so spedely after that eueÌ„ straight thei wear at their elbowes and did so stoutly then bestur them that what in the onset at the first and after in the chase which lasted a .iii. mile wellny to as far as the furthest of their campe on the southsyde they had kylde of the Scottes within a iii. houres abooue the number of xiii C. takeÌ„ the master of Hume the lord Humes sun and heyr .ii. prestes vi gentlemeÌ„ whearof one I remeÌ„ber by syr Iaques Granado and all vpon the hyest well me niest of the hill toward them within the full sight of their hole campe Of oure syde agayne one spanish hakbutter hurt and taken Sir Rafe Bullmer knyght Thomas Gower Marshal of Berwyke and Robart Crouch all Captains of seuerall bandes of our lighthorsmen and men of right good coorage approued seruice at this tyme distrest by their awne forwardnes not by the enemies force ¶ After this skirmish it was marueiled on their syde that we vsed so much crueltie douted on ours that wee had kylde so many Their marueyle was aunswered that they had pict the quarell first them selues shewed vs a presidente at paniarhough wher of late yeres wtout any mercie they slewe the lorde Euers a greate cumpenie with hym our dout was clered by the witnes of their oun selues who confessed that thear wear ii made out of their caÌ„pe .xv. C horsmeÌ„ for skirmish .v. C. foot men to lye
with swoordes and so hurt vppon the weddyng fynger of hys righte hande also as it was counted for the fyrst parte of medecine too haue it quite cut awaye About the same time certein of the Scottes ran out hastely to the kynges Maiesties standerde of the horsmen the whiche syr Androwe Flammak bare and laiyng fast holde vpon the staf thearof cryed a kyng a kynge That if both his strength hys hart and hys horse had not ben good and hereto sumwhat ayded at this pinch by sir Raulph Coppinger a pencioner bothe he had bene slain and the standerd lost whiche the Scottes neuertheles hilde so fast that they brake and bare away the nether ende of the staff to the burrel intended so much to the gayne of the stāderd that syr Androw as hap was skaped home all safe and els without hurt At this bysines also was my lord Fitzwaters Captain of a number of dimilaunces vnhorste but soone mounted againe skaped yet in great daunger and hys horse al he wē Hereat further wear Cauarley the standard bearer of the men of armes and Clemēt Paston a pēcioner thrust eche of them into the leg with pykes and Don Philip a Spaniard in the knee diuers other mayned and hurt and many horses sore woūded besyde ¶ By this tyme had our forewarde accordingly gotten the full vaūtage of the hilles side and in respect of their march stood sydeling toward the enemie Who neuertheles wear not able in all partes to stonde full square in array by reason that at the West ende of theim vpon their right hand and toward the enemie thear was a square plot enclosed with turfe as their maner of fencynge in thoose partes is one corner whearof did let the square of the same arraye Our battaile in good order next theim but so as in continaunce of array the former parte thearof stood vpon the hilles syde the tayle vpon the playn And the rerewarde hoolly vppon the playn So that by the placing and countenaunce of oure armye in this wyse wee shewed ourselues in a maner to cumpas them in that they shoolde no way skape vs the whiche by our poure and number we wear as well able to doo as a spynners webbe to catche a swarme of bees Howebeit for hart and courage we ment too mete wyth them had they bene as many mo These vndiscrete gadlinges that so fondly brake array from the horsmen in the retyre as I sayde ran so hastely thrughe the orders and rankes of our forewarde as it stood that it did both ther disorder many feared many was great encouraging to the enemie My lorde Lieutenaūt who had the gyding of our forewarde right valiauntly had conducted the same to their stōdynge and thear did very nobly encourage comfort thē Bidding them plucke vp their hartes shew thēselfes mē for thear was no cause of fear asfor victorie it was in their oun handes if they did abyde by it he himself euen thear woold lyue and dye amōg them And surely as hys wurthines allwayes right well deserueth so was hys honour at that tyme accordingly furnished with wurthy Captains First syr Ihon Lutterel who had the leading of a .iii. C. of hys lordships mē that wear the formost of thys forewarde all with harneys weapon and in all pointes els so well trimmed for war that lyke as at that tyme I coulde well note my lordes great cost and honour for that their choyse and perfect appointment and furniture so did I then also cōsider syr Ihon Luttrels proowes and wisedom for their valiaunt conductiō and exact obseruaunce of order whom knowynge as I knowe for his witmanhod good qualitees aptnes to all gentle feates besyde I haue good cause to counte both a good Captaī a warfare in feld and a wurthy courtyar in peace at home I mean suche a one as Cōte Balthazar the Italian in his boke of Courtyar doth frame Then in the same forwarde Syr Morrice Dēnis another Captain who wysely first exhortyng his men to play the mē shewing thearby the assuraunce of victorie then to the entent they shoolde be sure he woold neuer shrīke from theim he did with no les wurship then valiaunce in the hottest of this bysines alight amōg them and put hys horse from hym But if I shoold as cause I confesse thear wear inough make here ony stay in hys commendacion thearfore or of the forwarde courage of Syr George Hawarde whoo bere the Kynges Maiesties standarde in the battaile or of the circumspect diligence of syr William Pykering and Syr Rychard Wingfeld Sargeaūtes of the band to the foreward or of the prōpt forwardnes of Syr Charles Brādō another Captain ther or of the peinful industrie of syr Iames Wilford Prouost Marshal who placed himselfe with the formost of thys forewarde or of the good order in march of syr Hugh Willoughby and William Dēnis esquyer captaīs both or of the present hart of Ihon Chaloner a Captain also in the battail or of honest respect of Edward Chāberlayn gētlemā harbynger of the armie who willingly as then came in order with the same foreward Or of right many other in both these battailes for I was not nie the rereward whose behauours wurthynes wear at the tyme notable in myne eye although I neither knue then al of thē I saw nor coold not since remēber of thē I knue I mought wel be in dout it shold be to much an intricaciō to the matter to great a tediousnes to the reder And therfore to say on The Scottes wear sūwhat disordred with their cūminge out about the slaughter of our men the which thei did so earnestly then entēd thei toke not one to mercie but more thei wear amased at this aduētorous hardy onset My lordes grace hauing before this for the causes aforesayde placed himselfe on thys Fauxsyde Bray and thearby quikly perceyuynge the great disorder of these stragling horsmen hemd them in frō further straiyng whom syr Rafe Uane soon after with great dexterite brought in good order and array agayn And thearwith the rest of our strengths by the pollecie of my lordes grace and diligence of euery Captain and officer bysyde wear so oportunely and aptly applyed in their feat that whear this repulse of the enemie retyre of vs was douted of many to turne to the daunger of our los the same was wrought and aduaunced accordynge as it was deuysed to our certeinte of gayn and victorie For first at this sloughe whear most of our horsmē had stond syr Peter Mewtus Captain of all the hakbutters a foot did very valiauntly conduct place a good number of hys men in a maner harde at the faces of the enemies Wherunto Syr Peter Gamboa a Spanyard Captain of a .ii. C. hakbutters on horsback did redily bring his mē also whoo with the hot cōtinuaūce of their shot on both partes did so stoutly stay the enemies that thei could not well cum forther forward then our
cam we found it a lynnen draperie of the coorser cameryk in dede for it was all of canuas sheets and wear the tenticles or rather cabayns and couches of theyr souldiours the which much after the common byldyng of their cuntree besyde had they framed of iiii sticks about an elle long a pece whearof .ii. fastened toogyther at one ende a loft and the .ii. endes beneath stict in the ground an elle a sunder standing in facion lyke the bowe of a soowes yoke Ouer .ii. such bowes one as it wear at their hed thoother at their feet thei stretched a shete doun on both sides whearby their cabain becam roofed lyke a ridge But skant shit at both endes not very close beneath on the sydes onles their stiks wear the shorter or their wiues the more liberal to lend them larger naperie Howbeit wtin they had lyned them and stuft them so thick with strawe that the weather as it was not very cold when they wear ones couched thei wear as warme as thei had bene wrapt in horsdung This the plot of their campe was called EdminstoÌ„ edge nie Gilberton a place of the Lorde of Brimstons halfe a mile beyond Muskelboorowe and a iiii mile on this syde Edenborowe and occupied in largenes with diuers tentes and tenticles that stood in sundry partes out of square about a miles cumpas whearin as our meÌ„ vpon the sound of retreat at their retire wear sumwhat assembled we all with a loud and entyer outcrie and hallowyng in sign of gladnes and victorie made an vniuersall noys and shout whearof the shrilnes as after we hard was hard vntil Edinboorowe It was a woonder to see but that as they say many handes make lyght woork how soon the dead bodyes wear stryped out of their garments starke naked euen from as far as the chase went vntill the place of our onset whearby the parsonages of the enemies might by the wey easly be viewed and considered that which for their tallnes of stature cleanes of skyn bignes of bone with due proportion in al partes I for my part aduisedly noted to be such as but that I well sawe that it was so I woolde not haue beleued sure so many of that sort to haue bene in all their cuÌ„tree Amoong them lay thear many prestes and kirkmen as thei call them of whoom it was bruted amoong vs that thear was a hole band of a .iii. or .iiii. M. but we wear after enfourmed it was not altogyther so At the place of the chardge at the first by vs gyuen thear found we our horses slayn all gored and heaweÌ„ and our men so rufully gasht and mangled in the hed spetially as not one by the face coold be knowen who he was Litle Preston was found thear with both his handes cut of by the wreasts and knowen to be he for that it was knowen he had of each arme a bracelet of golde for the which they so chopt hym Edward Shelley alas that woorthy gentleman and valiaunt Captain all piteefully disfigured and mangled amoong them lay and but by his bearde nothing discernable Of whoom bysyde the propernes of parson for his wit his good qualitees his actiuitee in feates of war and his perfet honestie for the whiche with all men of all estates he was alwey so much estemed so welbelooued hereto for that he was so nere my frende I had caus inough here without parsimonie to prays his lyfe lament his death wear it not that thesame shoolde be to great a digression and to muche interrupcion of the matter As their fel sodeinly in RooÌ„ a great dungeoÌ„ swallowig of grouÌ„d Curtiê° a Romane gentlemaÌ„ for that pleasyng of the goddes that the same might ceas mouÌ„ted on his horse and lept doun into the same which straight then after closed by agayne Vale. Max. li. vi ca. vi Decius Mus Publiê° Decius his sun Consule of Room as thei shoold fight the Father against the I atines the sun after that agaiÌ„st the SaÌ„nites wear warned by dream that those armies shoolde haue the victorie whoo 's Captains wear first slayn in felde thei both ran willingly in to the hostes of their enemies they wear slayn theyr armies wan the felde Plutarch de Decio prÌ„e paral xxxvii Et Liui. de P. Decio li. x dec i. But touching the maner of his death I thinke his merit to mooch to be let pas in silence who not inferiour in fortitude of mynde eyther vnto the Romane Curtius or the .ii. Decii he being in this busines formost of all our men against the enemies Consyderyng with hymself that as his hardy charge vpon them was sure to be their terrour and very lykely to turne to the breach of their order and herewith also that the same shoulde be greate coorage to his followers that cam to gyue the charge with hym And ponderynge agayn that his turnynge bak at thys point shoulde caus the contrarye and be great daunger of our confusion was content in his kyngs and contrees quarell in hope the rather to leaue victorie vnto his cuntremen thus honorably to take death to hym selfe Whoom let no man thynke no foolysh hardines or werynes of lyfe draue vnto so harde an enterprise whoo 's sober valiaunce of coorage had often ootherwyse in the late warres with Fraunce bene sufficiently before approued and whoo 's state of lyuing my selfe I knue to be such as lact nothing the might pertein to perfit worldly wealth I trust it shall not be taken that I mean hearby to derogate fame from ony of the rest that dyed thear GOD haue their solles who I wot bought the bargain as deere as he but only to doo that in me may lye to make his name famous Whoo amoong these in my opinion towarde his prince and cuntree did best deserue Nye this place of onset whear the Scottes at their ruÌ„nynge awey had let fall their weapons as I sayd Thear found we bysyde their common maner of armour certeyn nice instrumentes for war as we thought And they wear nue boordes endes cut of being about a foot in breadth and half a yarde in leangth hauyng on the insyde handels made very cunnyngly of .ii. cordes endes These a Gods name wear their targettes again the shot of our small artillerie for they wear not able to hold out a canon And with these found we great rattels swellyng bygger then the belly of a pottell pot coouered with old parchement or dooble papers small stones put in them to make noys and set vpon the ende of a staff of more then twoo els long and this was their fyne deuyse to fray our horses when our horsmen shoulde cum at them Howbeeit bycaus the ryders wear no babyes nor their horses no colts they coold neyther duddle the tone nor fray the toother so that this pollecye was as witles as their powr forceles Amoong these weapons and bysyde diuers oother banners standerds and penons a banner of whyte