[1] [2] Crainston.The same morning the lord protector made mai|ster Andrew Dudleie knight, brother to the earle of Warwike, dispatched my lord admerall and him by ships full fraught with men and munition toward the winning of an hold in the east side of Scotland called Broughticrag,Broughti|crag. which stood in such sort in the mouth of the riuer of Taie, as that being gotten, both Dundée, saint Iohns towne, and diuerse other townes standing vpon the same riuer the best of the countrie in those parts, set vpon the Taie, should either become subiect vnto this hold, or else be com|pelled to forgo the whole vse of the riuer, for hauing anie thing comming in or outward. The lord ad|merall, and the said sir Andrew sped themselues with such good successe and diligence in that enter|prise, that on the wednesdaie following, being the one and twentith of September, after certeine of their shot discharged against that castell, the same was yeelded vnto them,Broughti|crag yéelded to the Eng|lishmen. the which sir Andrew did then enter, and after kept, as capteine to his high praise and commendation.