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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

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Marshal the other with present mynde courage waerely and quikly continued their coorse towarde thē And my lordes grace then at his place by thordinaūce aloft The enemies were in a fallowe felde wherof the furrowes lay sydelyng towarde our men by the syde of thesame furrowes next vs and a stones cast from them was thear a crosdich or slough which our mē must nedes pas to cum to thē whearin many that could not leap ouer stack fast to no small daunger of theim selues and sum disorder of their fellowes The enemies perceiuing our men faste approche disposed themselues to abyde the brunt and in this order stood still to receyue thē The erle of Anguish next vs in their forewarde as Capitayn of the same with an .viii. M. iiii or .v. peces of ordinaunce on hys right syde and a .iiii. C horsemen on hys lefte Behind him sumwhat Westwarde the gouernour with a .x. M. inlōd men as they call them the choysest men counted of their cōtre And the erle Huntley in the rerewarde wellnie euen with the battaile on the left syde with .viii M. also The iiii.m Irish Archers as a wyng to them both last indede in order first as they sayd that rā a way These battaile rereward wear warded also with their ordinaunce accordinge Edward Shelley Lieutenaunt vnder my lorde Gray of hys bande of Bulleners was the first on our syde that was ouer this slough my lord Gray next and so then after two or thre rākes of the former bandes But badly yet coolde they make their race by reason the furrowes laye trauers to their course That notwithstondynge and thoughe also thei wear nothynge likely well to bee able thus a frunt to cum within them to hurt them aswell because the Scottishmens pykes wear as longe or lēger then their staues as also for that their horses wear all naked without barbes wherof ¶ The exposiciō of the letters of this table A. Signifieth the place we camped in before the battaile B. Our rerewarde C. Our battaile D. Our forewarde E. The square close F. The foot of the hylles syde G. My lorde Protectours grace H. The master of the ordinaunce I. Our horsmen K. The slough L. The lane and the .ii. turf walles M. Their forewarde horsmē by the same N. Their battaile O. Their rerewarde PP The .ii. hillockes before the church Q. Saint Mighels of vndreske R. Muskelborowe S. Their horsmen at the ende of fauxside Bray TTTT Their rewes of tentes V. The turf wall toward the frith VV. Our cariages X. the marish Y. Our galley Z. Edinborow castell ¶ The significaciō of certein other notes Signifieth a footman A horsman A hakbutter a foot A hakbutter on horsback An archer A footman slayn A horsman slayn The fallowe felde whearon their armye stode though thear wear right many among vs yet not one put on forasmuch as at our cumming foorth in the mornīg we loked for nothing les then for battail that daye yet did my lorde and Shelley with the residue so valiauntly and strongly gyue the charge vpō them that whither it wear by theyr prowes or power the left side of the enemies that his lordship did set vpon though their order remayned vnbroken was yet compelled to swey a good wey bak gyue ground largely and all the residue of them besyde to stonde much amased Before this as our men wear well nie at them they stood very braue bragging shaking their pyke pointes criyng cum here loundes cum here tykes cum here heretykes suche lyke as hardely they are fayre mouthed men Thoughe they ment but small humanite ▪ yet shewed thei hereby much ciuilite both of fayre play to warne ear thei strook of formall order to chyde ear they fought Our Captains that wear behinde perceyuinge at eye that both by the vnevinnes of the grounde by the sturdy order of the enemie and for that their fellowes wear so nie straight before them they were not able to ony aduaūtage to mainteine this onset did thearfore according to the deuise in that point appointed turne themselues made a soft retyre vp towarde the hyll agayne Howbeit too Thys secunde Table sheweth the placinge of our footmen the slaughter of Edwarde Shelley and the oother the Retyre of oure bande of horsemen vp to the hil and the breach of array of the straglers from thē But touchyng the exposicion of the notes and letters I refer the reder to the Table before confes the truth sum of the nūber that knue not the prepēsed pollecie of the counsaill in this case made of a sober aduised retyre an hasty temerarious flyght Sound to ony mans ear as it may I shal neuer admit for ony affection towarde coūtree or kyn to be so partial as wil wittingly either bolster the falshod or bery the truthe for honor in myn opiniō the way gotten wear vnworthely wun and a very vyle gain howbeit hereby I cānot count ony lost whear but a fewe leude souldiours ran rashely out of array without standard or Captayn vpon no cause of nede but of a mere vndiscretion madnes A madnes in dede for fyrste the scottes were not able to pursue because they wear footmen thē if they coold what hope by flight so far from home in their enemies londe whear no place of refuge ¶ My lord Marshal Edward Shelley litle Prestō Brampton and Gerningham Bulleners Ratclyf the lord Fitzwaters brother Syr Ihon Cleres son heyr Digges of kēt Ellerker a pēcioner Segraue Of my lorde Protectours bād my lorde Edward hys graces sonne Captain of the same bāde Stāley Woodhous Coonisby Horgill Morris Dennys Arthur and Atkinson with other in the forerāke not being able in this earnst assault both to tende to their fight afore to the retyre behynde the Scottes again wel considering hereby how weak thei remayned caught courage a fresh rā sharply forward vpon them and without ony mercy slewe euery man of our men that abode furthest in prece a .vi. mo of Bulleners and other then I haue here named in all to the number of a xxvi and most part gentlemē My lord Grey yet and my lord Edward as sum grace was returned agayne but neyther all in safetie nor without euident markes they had bene thear for the one with a pyke thrugh the mouth was raced a longe from the tip of the tunge and thrust that way very daungerously more then twoo inches wythin the neck and my lorde Edwarde had hys horse vnder hym with swoordes wounded sore and I thīke to death Lyke as also a litle before this onset Syr Thomas Darcy vpon hys approch to the enemies was strooken glauncing wyse on the ryght syde with a bullet of one of their felde peces and thearby his body broosed wyth the boowynge in of hys harneys hys swoord hiltes broken the forefynger of his right hāde beatē flat Euen so vppon the partynge of thys fray was Syr Arthur Darcy slasht at
myte from vs the whyche chardge Master Uane dyd so earnestly applye as he was thear wyth his number before .vi but the Larde whither he was warned thearof by priuie skout or spie he was passed by an oother waye and was soon after .vii. with my Lordes grace in the cāpe master Uane was welcūmed and hauing no resistaunce made but al submitted proffer of chere for so had the lorde charged his wyfe to doe soon after he retourned to the campe This day my lordes grace was certefied by letter from my lorde Clynton and sir Andrew Dudley that on the wednesday last beyng the .xxi. of this moōth after certein of their shott discharged against the castell of Browghty Crak thesame was yeldyn vnto them the whiche sir Andrew dyd then enter and after kepe as captain Wedynsday the .xxviiii. of september ¶ A Skottysh heraulde accumpanied with certein Frēchmen that wear perchaunce more desierous to marke our armie then to wit of our welfare cam and declared from their coūsell the within a seuenight after their commissioners to whoom my lords grace had before graunted his safecundet shoold cum commune with our counsel at Berwyk whose cūming my lorde Lieutenaūt master Treasurer thoother of our commissioners did so long while there abyde But these Skottes as men that ar neuer so iuste and in nothing so true as in breache of promys and vsyng vntruth neither cam nor by like ment to cū And yet sure take I this no fetch of no fine deuise ōles thei mean hereby to wyn that thei shal nede neuer after to promys vsyng the feate of Arnus In Epigrā Mor● who with his all weys swearyng and his euer liyng at last obteined that his bare woorde was as much in credyt as his solemn oth but his solemn oth indeede no more then an impudent lye Howbeit since I am certeyn that sundry of them haue shewed themselues right honest I woold be loth here to be coūted so vnaduised as to arret the fautes of many to the infamie of al. It was sayde amoong vs they had in the meane tyme receyued letters of consolacion and of many gay offers from the French kyng yet had that bene no cause to haue broken promys with the coūsel of a Ream Howbeit as these letters wear to thē but an vnprofitable plaster to heale their hurt then so ar thei full likly if thei trust much therin to fynd thē a corzey that will freate them a nue sore ¶ My lords grace consideryng that of vertue and welldooyng the proper mede is honour Aswell thearfore for rewarde to them that had afore doon well as for cause of encoorage to oother then after to doo the lyke dyd this daye after noon adourne many Lordes knyghtes and gentlemen with dignitees as folowe The names and promotiōs of whoō I haue here set in order as they wear placed in the herauldes book Sir Rafe Sadlier Banereis Treasurer Sir Fraunces Bryan Capteyn of the light horsmen Sir Rafe Uane Lieutenaūt of all the horsmen These knightes wear made Banerettes a dignitie abooue a knight and next to a Baron whose acts I haue partly touched in the story before Knightes ▪ The lord Grace of Wylton high Marshall The lord Edward Seimor my lordes graces sun Of these the reder shal also fynde before The lord Thomas Haward The lord Walldyke Sir Thomas Dacres Sir Edward Hastyng Sir Edmund Brydges Sir Ihō Thinne my lords graces Stuard of howshold Sir Miles Partrich Sir Ihon Conwey Sir Giles Poole Sir Rafe Bagnolle Sir Oliuer Laurence Sir Henry Gates Sir Thomas Chaloner one of the Clerks of the kyngs maiesties priuie coūsel and in this armie as I mought call him chefe secretarie who with his great peyns and expedite diligēce in dispatch of things passyng from my lords grace and the coūsel thear did make that his merite was not with the meanest Sir Fraunces Flemmynge master of thordinaunce thear a gentlemā whoom long exercise good obseruaunce hath made in that feate right perfit whear vnto in this viage he ioyned so mooch hede and diligence as it was well found how much his seruice did stede Sir Ihon Gresham Sir William Skipwyth Sir Ihon Buttes Sir George Blaag Sir William Frauncis Sir Fraunces Knolles Sir William Thorborow Sir George Haward Sir Iames Wylforde Sir Rauf Coppinger But that I haue writtē in the storie before with what forward hardines Sir George haward did bear the kings maiestie stāderd in the battail thear also of the industrious peyn of sir Iames Wilford how sir Rauf Coppīger did aied not smally in saufgard of the standard of our horsmen I woolde haue bene more diligent to haue rehersed it here Sir Thomas Wētwoorth Sir Ihon Maruen Sir Nychās Straunge Yet knightes Sir Charles Sturton Sir Hugh Askue Sir Frauncis Salmyn Sir Richard Tounley Sir Marmaduke Cūstable Sir George Awdeley Sir Ihon Holcroft Sir Ihon Soutwoorth Sir Thomas Danby Sir Ihon Talbott Sir Rowland Clerk Sir Ihon Horsely Sir Iohn Forster Sir Christofer Dies iii. spaniards Sir Peter Negroo Sir Alonzo de vile Sir Henry Hussey Sir Iames Granado Sir Water Bonham Sir Robert Brādling mayr of new castell and made knight thear at my lordes graces retourne As it is not to be douted but right many mo in the armie beside these did also well and valiauntly quite them Although their prefermente was rather then differred then their deserts yet to forgotten euen so amōg these wear thear right many the knowledge of whose actes and demerytes I coold not cū by And yet woold haue no man no more to doubt of the worthines of their aduauncemēt then they ar certein of his circūspectiō and wisedome who preferd them to it Whearupon all mē may safely thus far foorth without offence presume that his grace vnworthely bestowed this honour on no man By this day as Rokesborowe was sufficiently made tenable and defensible that whiche to see my lordes grace semed half to haue vowed before he woold thence departe his grace and the counsell did first determine that my lord Gray shoold remayne vpō the borders thear as the kynges maiesties Lieutenaunt And then took ordre for the forts that sir Andrew Dudley Captein of Broughty Crak had leaft with hym CC. soldiours of hakbutters and oother and a sufficient number of pyoners for his works Sir Edwarde Dudley Captain of Hume castell lx hakbutters .xl. horsemē and a C. pioners Sir Rafe Bulmer captain of Rokesborowe CCC souldyours of hakbutters oother CC. pioners Thursday the xxix of september being Mighelmas day ¶ As thinges wear thus concluded warnyng gyuen ouer night that our cāpe shoold this day dissolue euery man fell to pakkyng a pace my Lordes grace this morening soon after vii of the clok was passed ouer the Twede here The best place whearof for gettīg ouer whych was ouer against the west ende of our cāp and not farr from the brokē atches of the brokē bridge was yet
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
Lykewise as duryng the time of ony such message hostilitee on both sydes should vtterly ceas The Scottes notwithstōding what mooued them I knowe not but sumwhat bisyde the rules of Stans puer ad mensam shot iii. or .iiii. shot at vs in the midst of this message dooīg but as hap was wyde inough On the morowe after thei had their gunnes taken from them euery chone put into the hādes of them that coulde vse them more with good maner ¶ It becummeth not me I wot apertly to tax their goouernour with the note of dissimulaciō for how euer he be our enemy yet a mā of honorable esiat woorthy for ought I knowe of the office he beares Howbeit touchyng this message sent by the heraulde to say as I thinke I am fully persuaded he neuer sent it either bicaus he thought it would be receyued by my lordes grace whoo 's coorage of custume he knue to be suche that would neuer brook so much dishonour as to trauaile so far to returne in vain or els that he mēt ony sparing or pitee of vs whō ī his hart he had al redy deuoured But only to shewe a colour of kindnes by the refusal whearof he might firste in hys sighte the more iustely as he shoulde lyst vse extremitee against vs and then vpō victorie triumph with more glorie For asfor of victorie he thought hymself no les sure then he was sure he was willynge to fyght That makes me in this case nowe to be so quite oute of doute wear the causes whearof I was after so certeinly enformed And they were firste his respecte of our onely strength as he thought our horsmen the which not so much vpon pollecie to make his men hardy agaynste vs as for that he plainly so took it he caused to be published in his hoste that it was hooly but of very yoong men vnskilfull of the warres and easie to be delt with al. And thē his regarde to the number place of our powr his the whiche indede wear far vnequall And hereto his assured hope of .xii. galleys and .l. ships that alweys he lookt for to be sent out of Fraūce to cum in at our backes He with hys hoste made themselues hereby so sure of the matter that in the night of this day they fel aforehande to plaiynge at dyce for certeine of our noble men and Captains of fame For asfor al the rest they thought quite to dispatch and wear of nothinge so mooch afeard as least we woulde haue made awey out of the cuntrey ear they and wee had met brutyng among them that our ships the day before remooued from before Lyeth but onely to take in our footmen and caryage to the entent our horsmen then with more hast and its cumber might thence be able to hie them homeward for the fear hearof also appointed they this night to haue geuen vs a camisado in our cāpe as we lay whearof euen then we hapt to haue an inkelyng thearfore late in the night entrenched our cariages and waggēboorowe had good skout without and sure watch within so that yf they had kept pointment as what letted them I coulde not lerne they shoulde neyther haue bene vnwelcummed nor vnlooked for Ye the great fear thei had of our hasty departure made them so hasty as the next morowe beyng the day of the battaile so early to cum towarde vs out of their campe agaynst whoom then though they sawe our horsmen redily to make yet woold thei not thīke but that it was for a pollecie to stay them while our footmē and cariage might fully be stowed a shipboorde Meruailousmen thei woold not beleue thear wear ony bees in the hyue til thei cam out and stang them by the noses They fared herein yf I may cōpare great things to small earnestie to game like as I haue wyst a good fellowe ear this that hath cum to a dycyng boord very hastely thrustyng for fear least all shoold be doon ear he could begin and hath soon bene shred of al that euer he brought but after when he hath cū tro the boord with his handes in his boosom remembred thear was neuer a peny in his purse he coulde quikly fynde that the fondnes was not in tariynge to long but in cummyng to soon We ar warned if we wear wise of these wit les brūtes by the commune prouerbe that saith It is better sit still then ryse vp and fall But bylyke they knowe it not In the night of this dai my lords grace appoīted that early in the next morning part of our ordinaūce should be planted in the lane I spake of vnder the turf wall next to their campe sum also to be set vpō the hil nie to Undreske church afore remēbred these to th entent we should with our shot caus them either hoolly to remooue their cāpe or els much to anoy thē as thei lay It was not the least part of our meaning also hereby to wyn from them certein of their ordinaunce that lay nerest this church ¶ No great breach of order I trust though here I reherse the thing that not til after I harde touchynge the trūpetours message from the earle Huntley Which was as I harde the erle hym self say that he neuer sent the same to my lordes grace but George Douglas in his name and this by him deuised not so specially for ony challēge sake as for that the messager should mayntein by mouth his talke to my lordes grace whyle his eye wear rolling to toote prie vpon the state of our campe whyther we wear pakkynge or no as indede the fellowe had a very good coūtenaūce to make a spie But my lordes grace of custume not vsyng so redyly to admit ony kynde of enemie to cum so nie had dispatched thē both with their aunswers as I sayd ear euer they cam within a mile of our campe As I hapt soon after to reherse the excuse of the Earle and this drift of Douglas a gentleman Skot that was prisoner and present sware by the mis it was lyke inough for he kend George ful well and sayd he was a mete man to pike whatels for oother men to fight for To th entent I woolde shewe my good will to make all thyng as easy to the sense of the reder as my knowledge coolde enstruct and forasmuch as the assaylee spetially of our horsmen at the firste their retyre agayn and our last onset pursuit and slaughter of the enemies can not all be shewed well in one plot I haue deuised and drawen accordynge to my cunnyng three seuerall viewes of them placed in their order as folowe in the battayle Whearin ar also oother tounes and places remembred such as that tyme I thought mete to marke and as my memorie could since call to mynde No fyne portrayture indede nor yet ony exquisite obseruaūce of geometricall dimēsiō but yet neither so grose nor far from the truth I trust