[1] [2] The Scots had cast trenches ouerthwart the side waies on either side, in manie places, to make the passage more cumbersome: but by the pioners the same were soone filled, and the waie made plaine, that the armie, carriage, & ordinance were quite set ouer soone after sun set, & there they pitched downe their campe. Whilest the armie was thus passing o|uer this cumbersome passage, an herald was sent from the lord protector, [...]n English herald sent from the lord protector to s [...]mmon a ca|stell. to summon a castell, that stood at the end of the same vallie, a mile from the place where they passed downe towards the sea. Matthew Hume capteine thereof, a brothers sonne of the lord Humes, vpon his summons required to speake with the lord protector. It was granted, and he came, whome the lord protector handled in such sort with effectuall words, putting him in choise whether he would yeeld, or stand to the aduenture, to haue the place woone of him by force, that he was contented to render all at his graces pleasure.