[1] William Dowglas.In the beginning of Iulie the lord William Dow|glas, with a number of men of warre, returned from France home into England, and to him vpon his re|turne the castell of Cowper was deliuered, with all the countrie thereabouts. After this, comming to the siege of S. Iohns towne, which the gouernour the earle of Murrey, the erle of March, Hect. Boetius Patrike de Dun|barre, and other of the Scotish lords had besieged, at length it was surrendered by sir Thomas Uthred capiteine there of the English garison, departing in safetie home into England. Thrée daies before the feast of the Assumption of our ladie, there chanced in the night season such a mightie and sudden inunda|tion of water at Newcastell vpon Tine,A floud. that it bare downe a péece of the towne wall, six perches in length, néere to a place called Walknow, where a hundred and twentie temporall men with diuerse préests and manie women were drowned and la|mentablie perished.