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1557.
The Queene [...]ent deſi| [...] warres.
This yeare in Iuly the Queene ſent for the Lordes to cõmune with them at New bottell, where ſhe opened
to thẽ diuers wrongs done on the borders by Engliſhmen, & how no
redreſſe could be got, wherfore ſhe required that warres might be moued agaynſt
Englãd in reuenge of thoſe iniuries,An aſſemble at
Carleill. although the Biſhop of Orkeney was ye ſame time at
Carleill in talke with Cut|bert Tunſtal biſhop of Dureſme & others,
com|miſſioners for Englãd. The principall cauſe yt moued the Q. Regent to
ſeeke to make warre againſt England,The occaſion [...] the Q Regent deſi| [...] to haue [...]e. was for that the Engliſhmẽ ayded ye Emperour in fauour of
his ſonne king Philip agaynſt the French king, bycauſe their Queene had taken
to huſbande the ſame King Philip, & ſent the Erle of Pembrooke ouer
with an army to ioyne with king Philips power. It was thought therfore, that if
the Scots inuaded the Engliſh bordures, it might cauſe thẽ to call barke their
power forth of Fraunce to defende their owne countrey.
The Scottiſh Lordes refuſe to take warre in hande.
Haymouth is fortified.
Inuaſions are made into England.
But the Scottiſh Lordes woulde not conſent in any wiſe to beginne any
warres: whiche their dealing when Monſieur Doyſell perceyued, he ſpeedely went
vnto Hay|mouth beſide Berwike, & fortified the ſame with all diligence,
making inuaſions into England: whervpõ the Scottiſhmen in their owne defence
were conſtreyned to make warre, & the Earle of Hũtley was made
Lieutenãt vpõ the bordures, who came thither, and remayning there by
aſſi|ſtãce of the Frenchmẽ, made ſundry inuaſions & roades into
England, brent diuers townes and villages, & caſt down many ſtone
houſes, piles, & ſtrengths. In this meane while were the Scot|tiſh
comiſſioners at Carleill, and the Maſter of Maxwell Warden of the weſt
bordures, beyng there with them, with much a do got away and came home into
Scotlãd. The Queene aſſem|bled a great army out of al parts of the
realme,An army aſ|ſembled. the whiche came
foreward to Kelſo in the mo|neth of October,The Lordes do
not cõſent therevnto: where the Queene and Frẽch|men perſwaded them
to enter by inuaſion into England, but they meaning to take further ad|uiſe,
paſſed ouer Tweede to Maxwell hughe,The caſtell of Warke
beſie|ged by Scots. where they encamped, & afterwardes
approched the caſtell of Warke, enuironing the ſame with a ſiege for the ſpace
of twoo or three dayes.Capitayne Reade. Ca|pitayne
Read at that preſent had charge of that caſtell, with three or foure hundred
footemen, & one hundred horſemen, ſeemyng to care litle for the
Scottiſhmens forces.