At the King's Majesty's town of Berwick, the last day of June.

Your Lordship's at command,

To the right honourable and my very good Lord the Earl of Shrewsbury, the King's Majesty's LieutenantGeneral in the Northern parts.

No. XVIII.

WILLIAM EURE.*

(Talbot Papers, vol. A. fol. 79. 1542.)

THE DUKE OF NORFOLK

TO THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY.

My very good Lord,

AFTER most hearty commendations; forasmuch as such of the King's Majesty's ships as are laden with victuals towards Berwick and Newcastle, for the furniture of his Highness's army in Scotland, are not yet arrived there; and considering as well that their passage certainly dependeth upon the wind, as also that after such their arrival it shall be necessary and requisite for such as have the charge of the same to have at least six days longer to put their

* Sir William Eure, or Evers, Knight, a gentleman of an ancient family in Northumberland, which is said to have derived its surname from the lordship of Eure in Buckinghamshire. He was son of Sir Ralph Eure, by Muriel, daughter of Sir Hugh Hastings, of Fenwick, and was bred to the military profession, according to the common mode of the northern gentry of that time. His good conduct in several petty services on the borders, joined to the weight and credit of his family in that part of the island, procured him the important appointments of Governor of Berwick, 1539, and Commander in Chief in the North, in 1542. He was afterwards Warden of the East Marches, and was created a Baron, by patent, in 1544. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher, Lord Willoughby, of Eresby, and had issue, two sons and three daughters: Sir Ralph, of whom hereafter; Henry, who settled at Bishop'sMiddleton, in the Bishoprick of Durham; Margery, wife of Willam Buckton, of Bellinges-Holme in Holderness; Muriel, first married to Sir George Bowes, secondly to William Wycliffe, of Wycliffe; and Ann, to Anthony Thorpe, of Conesthorpe, in the County of York.

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 whereof 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.