[1] [2] The sixtéenth of September the lard of Brimston a Scotish gentleman came to the dukes grace from [page 990] their counsell for cause of communication, and retur|ned againe to them, hauing with him Norreie an herald and king at armes of ours, who found them with the old quéene at Sterling.Sir Iohn Luttrell. S. Cooms ins kept with a garrison of Englishmen. On saturdaie the seauentéenth of September, sir Iohn Luttrell in the after noone departed toward saint Cooms ins, hauing with him an hundred harquebutters, fiftie pioners, & two row barks well furnished with muni|tion, and thrée score and ten mariners to remaine there, & kéepe that from inuasion of the enimies, a|gainst whom the English were so sharplie whetted, that when they came to incounter, they gaue proofe of their manhood by wounds and bloudshed, accor|ding to the report of C.O. in these verses following:

— Anglorum pectora Mauors

Belliger exacüit, crescunt ad vulnera vires.