[1] Here they did so much by shewing that they ment indeed to win the castell by force, if otherwise they might not haue it, causing a certeine number of harquebutters vpon appointment before to beset the castell, and to watch that none should passe in or out, that in the end, the ladie of the house,Hume castell besieged and yéelded vp to the lord pro|tector. and other that were within in charge with it, yéelded it vp to the lord protectors hands: for the ladie doubting the losse of hir son that was prisoner with the Englishmen, hauing the first daie béene with the lord protector, and got respit till the next daie at noone, in the meane time consulted with hir sonne, and other hir friends the kéepers of the castell, returned at the time appointed the next daie, being the one and twen|tith of that moneth, and made sute for a longer respit till eight of the clocke at night, and therewith safe conduct for Andrew Hume hir second son, and Iohn Hume lard of Coldan Knows, a kinsman of hir husbands, capteins of this castell, to come and speake with his grace in the meane while. It was granted hir. Wherevpon these capteins about thrée of the clocke came to the lord protector, and after other co|uenants (with long debating on both parts) agréed vpon, she and these capteins concluded to giue their assent to render the castell, so far foorth as the rest of the keepers would therewith be contented, for two or thrée within (said they) were also in charge with kéep|ing it as well as they, for knowledge of whose minds the duke sent Summerset his herald with this ladie to the castell vnto them;Summerset the dukes herald. who as the herald had made them priuie to the articles, would faine haue had lei|sure for foure and twentie hours longer, to send to their lord to Edenburgh, where he laie hurt (as be|fore you haue heard) and in danger of death, which followed of the fall that he caught at the fridaies skirmish before the battell, to know his will and ple|sure in this point of rendering vp the castell: but be|ing wiselie and sharplie called vpon by the herald, they agréed to the couenants afore by their ladie and capteins concluded on:The conditi|ons of the sur|rendring of Hume castell. whereof part (as the sequele shewed) were these. That they should depart thense the next daie in the morning by ten of the clocke with bag and baggage, as much as they could carie, leauing all munition and vittels behind them in the castell. Howbeit, to be assured of them, the lord pro|tector prouiding ech waie to be readie for them, cau|sed eight péeces of ordinance fensed with baskets of earth to be planted on the southside toward the cas|tell within power of batterie, and the harquebutters to continue their watch and ward.