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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 And so being commanded to go fetch his compa|nie out of the house, he went and brought them, being in all one and twentie persons. The capteine and six other were staied and commanded to the kéeping of the marshall, the residue were suffered to depart whither they thought good. After this surrender, the lord Iohn Greie brother to the marques Dorset, was appointed to seize & take possession of the house, being capteine of a great number of demilances, as for his approoued worthinesse and valiancie right well he might, agréeable to the deserued report remai|ning of him in print in forren spéech as followeth:

—Graius heros
Ob summam belli cataphractis praefuit artem.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The spoile was not rich sure, but of white bread, o|ten cakes, and Scotish ale indifferent good store, and soone bestowed among my lords soldiors; for swords, bucklers, pikes, pots, pans, yarne, linnen, hempe, and heaps of such baggage, which the countrie peo|ple there about had brought into that pile, to haue it in more suretie, the soldiors would scarse vouchsafe to stoope and take the same vp.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The castell of Dunglas o|uerthrowneIn the meane time the lord protector appointed the house to be ouerthrowne, which by the capteine of the pioners was doone, though with some trauell, by reason the walles were so thicke, and the foundation so déepe, and thereto set vpon so craggie a plot. Tues|daie the sixt of September, the armie dislodged and marched forward. In the waie as they should go, a mile and an halfe from Dunglas northward were two piles or holds,Thornton. Anderwike. Thornton & Anderwike, set both on craggie foundations, & diuided a stones cast a sun|der by a déepe gut, wherein ran a little riuer. Thorn|ton belonged to the lord Hume, and was kept by one Thom Trotter,Thom Trotter. who vpon summons giuen him to render the house, lockt vp a sixteene poore soules like the soldiors of Dunglas fast within the house, tooke the keies with him, commanding them to defend the place till his returne, which should be on the mor|row, wish munition and releefe: and this doone, he and his prickers prickt (as saith maister Patten) quite their waies.

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