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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09164	The expedicion into Scotla[n]de of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward, Duke of Soomerset, vncle vnto our most noble souereign lord ye ki[n]ges 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.	Patten, William, fl. 1548-1580.	1548 (1548)	STC 19476.5; ESTC S114184	77,214	314

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 occasioÌ„ 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 stoÌ„de 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 commeÌ„dacions 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 vnatteÌ„pted say nothing at al. Mary an Epigram made vpon the Citezens receyuing of his grace and for gratulacioÌ„ 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 perchauÌ„ce 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 circuÌ„fusa 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 nuÌ„quam visa est victoria maior Det Deus imperium per te coeamus in vnum Simus vnanimes per secula cuÌ„cta Britanni Though I plainly told ye not that my freÌ„des 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 coÌ„tinued 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 expedicioÌ„ into Scotland whearin I haue digested our euery daies dedes orderly as they wear dooÌ„ 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 froÌ„ 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 ignorauÌ„t of fewest and writyng of most yet truste I agayne it will be consydered that it is neyther possible for one maÌ„ 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 maÌ„s for flatterie so wyll I suppresse no maÌ„s 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 metiÌ„g Sum of theÌ„ 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 SetoÌ„ 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 meÌ„t 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 warniÌ„g 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 proclamacioÌ„ of the time and place whaÌ„ and whither they shall cuÌ„ and with how much prouision of vitail Sum other say it is a cros â–ª 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 suÌ„ of theÌ„ selues not of the meanest sort to confesse aboue .xxvi. M. fighting footmen beside .ii. M horsemeÌ„ prickers as they cal them and hereto .iiii. thousande I rishe Archers brought by therle of Arguile all whiche sauing certaiÌ„ that we had slayne the day before cam out of theyr campe to encouÌ„ter with vs. Now whear they wil haue it no felde let theÌ„ tell their cardes and couÌ„t their wynnyng and they shall fynde it a felde howbeit by myn assent we shall not herein muche stick with theÌ„ 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 â–ª lyue together accordynge as thearunto bothe by the appointement of God at the firste and by continuauÌ„ce 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 theÌ„ then they woold too here Gascoing fight with FrauÌ„ce Aragone with Spayne FlauÌ„ders with BrabaÌ„t 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 wooÌ„der and wo it is to me my CuÌ„treemen for I can vouchsafe ye well the name to coÌ„sider what thing might moue ye what tale might incense ye what drifte force ye what charme enchauÌ„t ye or what furie coniure ye so fondly to flye from coÌ„moÌ„ 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 coouenauÌ„t as ye wyll nedes prouoke your frendes to plaine reueÌ„gement of opeÌ„ 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 vnreueÌ„ged 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 suffrauÌ„ce of Gods fauour which thaÌ„kes 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 amoÌ„g 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 perchauÌ„ce it wear not much agaiÌ„st manerflatly to break curtesy with theÌ„ 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 coÌ„querours 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 suÌ„what to saie more As our prince in cases of pitee was of hys own disposicioÌ„ most merciful so wanted thear not then of coÌ„saillours 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 couÌ„sailours 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 gouernauÌ„ce vnder the kinges Maiestie that now is atteÌ„pted and vsed to shoÌ„ne these warres and show him selfe your freÌ„de what pollecie hathe he left vnproued what

to resist oure powr or saue theÌ„selfs thei pluct in a banner that afore they had set out in defyauÌ„ce put out ouer the walles â–ª a whyte lynneÌ„ clout tyed on a stickes end criyng al with one tune for mercy but hauyng answer by the whole voice of the assaylers thei were traytors it was to late thei plukt in their stick sticked vp the baÌ„ner of defyaunce again shot of hurled stones did what els they could with great courage of their side littel hurt of ours Yet then after being assured by our ernesty that we had vowed the wynning of their holde before our departure then that ther obstinacie coulde deserue no lesse then death pluct in their baÌ„ner once again cried vpoÌ„ mercie beyng generally aunswered nay nay loke neuer for it for ye are errauÌ„t traytors then made they peticioÌ„ that if thei should nedes die yet that my lordes grace woulde be so good to theÌ„ as thei might be haÌ„ged whearby they might sumwhat reconcile theÌ„selfs to God warde not to dye in malice with so great dauÌ„ger of their soules A pollecy of warre A pollecie sure in my mind though but of grose heddes yet of a fyne deuise Syr Miles Partrich being nie about thys pile at the tyme spiyng one in a red doblet dydges he shuld be an EnglishmaÌ„ therfore cam furthered this peticioÌ„ to my lordes grace the rather which then toke effect thei came huÌ„bled theÌ„selfes to hys grace whearupoÌ„ without more hurt they wear but coÌ„maunded to the Prouost Marshal My lordes graces pitee It is suÌ„what here to coÌ„sider I know not whither the destenie or hap of maÌ„s life The more woorthy men the les offeÌ„ders more in the iudges grace wear slayne the beggers the obstinate rebelles that deserued nought but crueltie wear saued To saye on now the house was soon after so bloweÌ„ with pouder that more then the one half fell straight doune to rubrish dust the rest stood al to be shaken with riftes chynkes Anderwyke was burned al the houses of office and stakkes of corne about them both While this was thus in haÌ„de my lordes grace in turning but about sawe the fal of DuÌ„glas which likewise was undermined and blowen with pouder This doon about noon we marched on passinge soon after wtin the guÌ„shot of DuÌ„bar a toun stoÌ„ding loÌ„gwise vpoÌ„ the seasyde whearat is a castel whiche the Scottes couÌ„t very stroÌ„g the sent vs diuers shottes as we passed but al in veyn their horsmeÌ„ showed theÌ„selfs in their feldes besyde vs toward whom Barteuile with hys .viii â–ª meÌ„ all hakbutters on horsbak whome he had right wel appoiÌ„ted IhoÌ„ de Rybaud with diuers other did make but no hurt on neyther side sauing yte a maÌ„ of Barteuiles slew one of theÌ„ with his pece the skirmish was soon eÌ„ded We weÌ„t a iiii mile further hauing trauayled that day a .x. mile we caÌ„ped nigh CaÌ„talloÌ„ had at night a blynde alarme Here had we first aduertisement certein that the Scottes wear assembled in campe at the place whear we found them Wednesdaye the .vii. of September Â¶ Marching this morniÌ„g a. ij mile we came to a fayre Ryuer callen Lyn ruÌ„ning all straight eastwarde toward the sea ouer this Riuer is ther a stone bridge that they name LyntoÌ„ brig of a toun therby on our righthaÌ„d eastward as we went that stoÌ„ds vpoÌ„ thesame Ryuer Our horsmen cariages past through the water for it was not very depe our footmeÌ„ ouer the bridge The passage was very straight for an army therfore the leÌ„gar in settiÌ„g ouer BeyoÌ„d this bridge about a mile Westward for some thought as then we turned vpon this same Ryuer on the Southsyde stondes a proper house and of sum strengthe bylyke they call it hayles Castell Hayles castel and perteyneth to the erle Bothwel but kept as then by the gouernours appoyntmeÌ„t who hylde the erle in pryson Aboue the Southsyde of thys Castell lyeth a long hil Eeast West whearuppon did appere in diuers plumpes about .iii. C. of their prickers sum makynge towarde the passage too lye in wayt ther to take vp straglers and cut of the tayle of our hoste My lordes grace and my lord Lieutenaunt against the Castell vpon an hill ouer whiche we should passe did stay a while aswel for the armie that was not all cum as alsoo too see a skyrmish that sum of these prickers by cuÌ„ming ouer the Riuer toward vs began to make but did not mainteine WhearupoÌ„ our foreward marching softly afore hys grace then tooke his way after at whome out of the Castell thear wear rouÌ„dly shot of but without hurt vi or .vii. peces the whiche before that thoughe sum of oure men had bene very nye yet kept they all coouert In this mean time did thear aryse a very thicke mist My lord the erle of Warwyke then lorde Lieutenaunt as I tolde you of the armie did so nobly quite himself vpoÌ„ an aduenture that chaunced then to fal as that his accustumed valiaunce might wel be acknowledged whearby first and first of all men a litle but not without purpose now to digres beynge lorde LieutenauÌ„t of Bulleyn next after it was wun beaten on al sydes weak without yll harbour within and nowe to say trouth for the dauÌ„ger is past skante tenable as it was did so valiauntly defende it agaynst the Dolphyn then and all hys power that as I remeÌ„bre was reconed a .lii. M. Of whome in a camisado then as they had slayn many of our meÌ„ wun the base toun his lordeship killed aboue viii C couÌ„ted of the best souldiors in al FrauÌ„ce draue the rest away recouered the toun froÌ„ them again And the next yere after occupiyng his office of lord Admiral vpon the sea in person himself what tyme the greate fleete of Fraunce with all their Galleys which was no smal pour cam to inuade our costes he profrered battaile vnto the Frenche Admiral all his nauie which fight I will not saye howe cowardly he vtterly refused hys lordship repeiled their force made theÌ„ fame to flie bak agaiÌ„ home with all their bragges cost in vain And thesame yere but with a .vii. M. wherof not v. M. loÌ„ded mawgre all FrauÌ„ce he burnt Treaport diuers villages thear besyde returned to ship again with the los but of one Dauid Googan no mo And the yere than next M D.xlvi after his diligence so well shewed amoÌ„g the rest of the coÌ„missioners that an honorable and freÌ„dly peace was coÌ„cluded betwene FrauÌ„ce vs his lordship was sent ouer by our late souerain lord to receiue the oth of the late FreÌ„ch king for coÌ„firmacioÌ„ of the same peace In which iorney how nobly he did aduauÌ„ce his port for the kynges Maiesties honour estimacioÌ„ of the realme yet not aboue his degre all meÌ„ that sawe it will easly confesse with

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

mooued that rather to thinke so bycaus sum of their crosses wear so narrowe so singly set on that a puff of wynde might haue bloweÌ„ theÌ„ froÌ„ their brestes that thei wear found right often talkiÌ„g with the Skottish prikkers wtin les then their gads length a sunder when thei perceiued thei had bene spied thei haue begun one to run at another but so apparauntly perlassent as the lookers on resembled their chasyng like the running at base in an vplondish toun whear the match is made for a quart of good ale or like the play in Robin Cooks skole whear bicaus the punics may lerne thei strike fewe strokes but by assent appointemeÌ„t I hard sum men say it did mooch augment their suspicioÌ„ that wey bicaus at the battail thei sawe these prikkers so badly demean them more inteÌ„ding the takiÌ„g of prisoners then the suerty of victorie for while oother men fought they fell to their prey that as thear wear but few of them but brought home his prisoner so wear thear many that had .vi. or .vii. Many men yet I must coÌ„fes ar not disposed all weys to say all of the best but more redy haply to fynde oothers meÌ„s fautes then to amend their oun Howbeit I thiÌ„ke sure as for our prikkers yf their fautes had bene fewer their infamye had bene les yet say I not this so moch to disprais them as for mean of ameÌ„dement Their Captains and gentlemen again ar men for the most part al of right honest seruice and approoued prowes such sure as for their well dooing woold soon becum famous yf their souldiours wear as toward as theÌ„selues be forward As thyngs fell after in communicacion one question amoÌ„g oother arose who kyld the first man this day in felde the glorie whearof one Ieronimo an Italian woold fayn haue had howbeit it was after well tryed that it was one Cuthbert Musgraue a gentlemaÌ„ of my lord of War wykes who right hardely kyld a GuÌ„ner at his pece in the Scottes foreward ear euer they begon ony whit to turne the fact for the forwardnes well deseruyng remembrauÌ„ce I thought it not mete to be let slip in silence This nyght the Skottish goouernor when he thought ones him self in sum safetie with all spede caused the erle Bothwel to be let out of prisoÌ„ which whither he did for the doubt he had that we woold haue releaced him wild he nild he or whither he woold shew hiÌ„self fayn to doo sumwhat before the peple to make sum amendes of his former faut I doo not knowe but this sure rather for suÌ„ caus of fear then for ony good will whiche was well apparaunt to all men in that he had kept the erle so long before in hold with out ony iust caus Sonday the xi of september Â¶ In the morenyng a great sort of vs rode to the place of onset whear our meÌ„ lay slayn and what by gentlemeÌ„ for their freÌ„des and seruauÌ„tes for their Masters al of theÌ„ that wear knoweÌ„ to be ours wear buried In the mean time the Master officers of the ordinauÌ„ce did very diligeÌ„tly get to gyther all the Skottish ordinauÌ„ce which bycaus it lay in sundry places thei could not inne all ouer night And these wear in nuÌ„ber a xxx peces whearof one culuerine .iii. sacres ix smaller peces of bras of iron 17. peces mo mouÌ„ted on cariage These thinges thus done suÌ„what a fore none our caÌ„pe reysed we marched aloÌ„g the Fryth syde straight toward Lyeth approchiÌ„g me the same about iii. of the clok in thafter none we pyght our fyeld a prikshot on thissyde the toun being on the southest half sumwhat shadowed froÌ„ Edinborowe by a hill but the most of it liyng wtin the ful sight shot of the castell thear in distaunce sumwhat abooue a quarter of a mile My lordes grace garded but with a small cuÌ„peny was cuÌ„meÌ„ to Lyeth well nie half an hour before the armie the whiche he found all desolate of resistauÌ„ce or ony body els Thear wear in the hauen that runneth into the mids of the roun vessels of diuers sortes a xiii Sumwhat of ode wynes wainskot and salt wear found in the toun but as but litle of that so nothiÌ„g els of value for how much of oother things as could wel be caried the inhabitauntes ouernight had pact awei with them My lord Marshall and most of our horsmen wear bestowed lodged in the toun my lordes grace my lord Lietenaunt the rest of th armie in the campe Monday the xii of september Â¶ This day my lordes grace with the counsell and sir Rychard Lee rode about that toun to the plottes and hilloks on eyther syde nie to it to viewe consider whither the same by byldyng might be made tenable and defensible Â¶ Certayne of our smaller vessels burnt Kynkorne and a toun or twoo mo stondyng on the northe shore of the Frith against Lyeth Tuysday the xiii of september In the after noon my lords grace rowed vp the Fryth a .vi. or .vii. myles westward as it runneth into the land and took in his way an Iland thear called sainct Coomes Ins which stoÌ„deth a .iiii. mile beyoÌ„d Lieth and a good wey nerar the north shore then the south yet not wtin a mile of the nerest It is but half a myle about and hath in it a prety Abbey but the mooÌ„ks wear gone fresh water inough and also coonyes and is so naturally strong as but by one way it can be entred The plot whear of my lordes grace consideryng did quikly cast to haue it kept whearby al traffik of marchauÌ„dise all coÌ„modities els commyng by the Fryth into their land vtterly the hole vse of the Fryth it self with all the hauens vppon it shoold quyte be taken from them Wednesday the .xiiii. of september Â¶ This day my lords grace tidyng bak again Estward to vyew diuers things and places tooke Dakyth in his way whear a howse of George Douglasses dooth stande and commyng sumwhat nere it he sent Soomerset his herald with a trompet before to knowe whoo kept it and whether the kepers holde it or yelde it to his grace Aunswere was made that thear was a .lx. parsons within whoom their maister liyng thear the saterday at night after the batell dyd will that they the hous and all that was in yt shoolde be at my lordes graces commaundement and pleasure Whear vppon the chefest came out and in the name of all the rest humbled hymself vnto my Lords will proferynge his grace in his Masters name diuers fayr goshaukes the whiche my Lords grace how nobly soeuer he listed to shew mercy vpoÌ„ submissioÌ„ yet vttering a more maiestie of honor then to base his generositie to the reward of his enemie did but not coÌ„temptuosly refuse and so without cuÌ„myng in past by and rode to the place whear the battell was begun to be strooken the whiche hauyng a

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