[1] The fourth of Maie, his lordship sent maister William Drurie the marshall of Barwike, accom|panied with diuerse gentlemen and capteins, ha|uing with them about two thousand souldiours, to take Fast castell: the which vpon the first sum|mons was deliuered into his hands, who receiuing the keies being presented to him, entered the hold, and tooke possession thereof, in the queenes ma|iesties name: and expelling the Scots, being about the number of halfe a score (who according to coue|nant were suffered to depart with their liues saued) he put ten, Iohn Stow, Englishmen put into the castell to keepe it. or (as some haue) fouretéene Englishmen into that castell, which were thought able and num|ber sufficient enough to kéepe it against all the pow|er of Scotland, the situation thereof is so strong.