things in such due order as doth appertain; these shall be therefore to desire you to defer your setting forth for six days longer than was heretofore signified unto you; putting such order as ye fail not to be at Newcastle, with your men, the seventh day of October next, and not before; and like as these shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalf, so I require you to address the proclamations herein enclosed, for the delay thereof according to their directions.

And, whereas I understand you are desirous to receive conduct-money, and money for coats, you shall understand that Sir John Harrington, who is Treasurer of the Wars, arrived here this present morning, and hath neither yet received the money, nor yet taken certain order for the particular disbursement thereof; wherefore I require you take patience herein, likewise considering the delay of the days aforesaid. Thus fare you heartily well. Written at York, this present 20th day of September.

My Lord, pray you send not for the money for coats and conduct until Friday week; and as for your men that come afar off, keep them in those parts, and your charges shall be allowed from the first day of their setting forwards.

To my very good Lord, my

Lord of Shrewsbury.

Yours assuredly,

T. NORFOLK.*

* Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk of that illustrious family, and Lord Treasurer. He was appointed Lieutenant General of the army which invaded Scotland a month after the date of this letter, and died in 1554.

No. XIX.

(Talbot Papers, vol. B. fol. 143.)

THE NAMES OF SUCH SCOTTISH PLEDGES AND PRISONERS AS WERB TAKEN SINCE THIS WAR FIRST BEGAN IN THESE WEST MARCHES;

WITH AN ESTIMATE OF THEIR VALUES AND ESTIMATIONS, AND WHERE THEY WERE BESTOWED AT THE first. NEVERTHELESS DIVERS OF THEM ARE DEAD, PART EXCHANGED

AND LET HOME UPON RANSOMS AND OTHERWISE.

THE Earl of Glencarn, mortuus.

The Lord Fleming, mortuus.

The Lord Somerville, of 400 marks sterling; his pledges were with the Earl of Warwick.

The Lord of Oliphant, of 100 marks sterling land, by year; his pledges were with my Lord of Durham.

The Lord Gray, of 400 marks sterling by year, with my Lord Archbishop of York.

Oliver Sinclair, James Sinclair, Alexander Sinclair, being of small lands and good substance; their pledges the Laird Closeborne's son and heir; whose father is of £ 100 sterling lands, and more.

The Laird of Craig, of £151 lands sterling by year; his pledge with my Lord Lumley.

*The English army entered Scotland October 21, 1542, and having desolated the West Marches retired to Berwick. On the 24th of November, the Scots invaded England with fifteen thousand men, and were totally routed at the battle of Solway Moss, by a small band under the command of Sir Thomas, afterwards Lord, Wharton. The following persons, among whom we meet with that great favourite of James V. Oliver Sinclair, to whose unpopularity the misfortune of that day is commonly attributed, were made prisoners there; and according to the generous custom of those days, had been for some time entertained in an honourable captivity in the houses of the English nobility. Thus Sinclair was committed to the Duke of Suffolk, the Earl of Glencairn to the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Cassilis (who is not mentioned in this list) to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Maxwell to Sir Anthony Browne, Lord Somerville to the Lord Chancellor, &c.

Mr.Erskine, heir-apparent to the Laird Erskine, which Laird Erskine is 100 marks land by the year. Mr. Seton, of 200 marks lands sterling; his pledge with my Lord Evers.

The Laird of Harton of £ 40 lands sterling; by pledge, which is now in the King's Majesty's possession by conquest; his pledge with Sir Thomas Hilton.

The Laird of Graden, of £20 land by year, and by leases by year £20; his pledge with Sir William Gascoigne the elder.

Mr. Leslie, son to the Earl of Rothes, without lands; his pledge with Sir Thomas Tempest.

The Laird of Ancastle, a freehold to the Laird of Drumlanrig, of £ 20 land sterling, or more; his pledge his brother, with Thomas Wentworth.

The Laird of Waughton, of 200 marks land sterling by year; his pledge with Mr. Magnus.

The Laird of Macreath, of a £ 100 land sterling, by year; his pledge with Sir Henry Saville, Knt.

The Laird of Ressythe; himself remaining within the manor of York, being a prodigal gentleman of £ 20 land, the most part where of he hath mortgaged.

Robert Maxwell, now Lord Maxwell, an ancient baron of great lands; himself remaining as yet in Carlisle.

The Lord Garlies, a man of 300 marks, and more, and little thereof in his hands, but holden from it by rebels in his country; himself remaining at Pontefract Castle, in the custody of Sir Henry Saville.

Captain of Crawford, a gentleman of £10 lands sterling, or thereupon; he escaped, and his bond paid by his sureties.

Patrick Murray, a gentleman without lands, and of small living, remaining in England in the King's Majesty's service.

The Laird Drummelier, an ancient gentleman of £100 lands, or more; his pledge with Sir William Middleton, in Yorkshire.

The Laird Johnston, a gentleman of 100 marks sterling, or above; for whom the King's Majesty has paid 100 marks in part of payment for his ransom to his taker, and remains himself in Pontefract Castle.

John Somerville, a younger son of the Laird Somerville, having small living himself; remains with Sir Edward Gower, Knight.

John Creighton, brother to the Laird Creighton, of very small living; himself remains with Sir Robert Stapleton.

The Laird of Cockpole, a gentleman of £ 100 lands sterling, or thereabouts; himself remains with Sir William Ingleby.

Alexander Gordon, brother to the Laird of Applegarth, having very small living; himself remains with Sir Henry Saville.

PLEDGES RECEIVED FOR THE KING'S MAJESTY'S SERVICE, AND THE NUMBERS FOR WHOM THEY WERE DELIVERED, AS FOLLOW.

The Laird of Applegarth, of 200 marks sterling, and more; his pledge, his cousins, with Mr. Magnus, for 242 men.

The Laird Hewsfeld, of £10 and more; his pledge with Dr. Marshal, for 144 men.

The Laird Holmend, of £ 20 land; his pledge his son, with Sir Christopher Danby, for 142 men. Young Captain of Crawford, of no lands, because his father is living, and prisoner as aforesaid; his pledge his brother, with Sir William Vavasour, for 101 men.

The Laird of Dabatie, of 20 marks land; his pledge his brother, with Sir John Tempest, for 41

men.

The Laird Drummelier, for his service, besides that he is prisoner as aforesaid, being of £100 land; his pledge his son, with Sir William Maleverer, for 364 men.

The Laird Carlisle, for his service, besides that he is prisoner as aforesaid, his pledge his son and heir, with my Lord Latimer, for 101 men.

The Laird of Mowsfall, of £40 lands or more; his pledge his brother, with Sir William Fairfax, for 71 men, mortuus.

The Laird of Orcharton, of £10 lands; his pledge with Sir William Calverley, for 112 men.

The Laird of Carlies, of £ 100 land, and more, and of good estimation; his pledge his son and heir, with the Earl of Lennox, for 206 men.

The Laird of Loughinware, a man of 200 marks lands, and in goods better than £1000; his pledges his cousins; two of them with my Lord Scrope, and one with my Lord Conyers, for 95 men.

James Maclean, Tutor of Bonby, a man of good estimation and small living; his pledge his son and heir, with Dr. Bransby, for 151 men.