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to myen," says Wharton exultingly : to hold the fortress after its 

 door had been battered in by artillery was impossible. At 8 in 

 the morning the fierce siege had begun, gunner, hackbutteen 

 archer, and pioneer had done their deadliest work all day long, 

 and it was not till 4 in the afternoon that the thought of surrender 

 'was entertained. The last hope of reinforcement from the Regent 

 had faded away in the news of his defeat at Pinkie two days 

 before. Appealing for honourable terms, the captain of Annan 

 hauled down his " pensall of defyaunce " at last.* 



Nearly half the garrison had been killed. Only 57 men 

 issued from the building when their captain delivered up its 

 keys in symbol of surrender. Next day the extremity of revenge 

 was wreaked upon the town It fell first on the churcli and 

 steeple. These had been undermined at various points, and 

 trains of gunpowder were laid. Thus, as it is rather paradoxi- 

 cally expressed, " both the church and steeple were blown up 

 into the air and razed down to the ground. This done," con- 

 cludes Holinshed, " they burnt the town after they had sacked 

 it, and left not one stone standing upon another, for that the 



*Excei'pt from Wharton and Lennox's most interesting despatch : — 

 " We were informede that the Governor hade sent one Jamys Lyone with 

 viith "uners to the steple of Anande, and gyvin in charge to hyme with 

 others of the towne for the save keping thereof, and a promyse maide 

 that within foure howres froe tlie YngHsh armye were there they should 

 be relieved with a more powre, whereupon we marched on the morowe 

 being Sondaye towards Anande, and encamped ourselfs that night so 

 nere the steple as we could, and the same niglit at our lodging sent 

 somons to the capitaync to rendre the steple who denyed so to do, and 

 saide he wolde kepe it as the Governor, his Mr, had comanded. And 

 we having no ordenence but a facon, a faconette, and foure quarter 

 facons for that there is no batrie peice at Carlisle diviscd that night 

 howe we shulde maike \\arre agaynst the house on the morowe. At 

 viiith of the clok in the mornyng we laid those sex peices to leit the 

 batailling, and appoyntid certain archers and hagbutters to maik warre 

 also untill a paveis of tymbre might be drawn to the side of the steple 

 under M-hiche sexe pyoners might work to have undermyned the sam. 

 And in putting these to effecte they in the house made sharpe warre, and 

 slew foure of our men, and hurt divers others. And with grett sonde 

 the steple toppe brooke the paveis after it was sett, and being in that 

 extrymytie lakking ordenence for that purpose we caused certain pyoueers 

 cutt the walle ot the east ende of the quere over thwart above the 

 earthe and caused the hoole ende to falle, wherewith the rooff and tymber 

 fallin" inwards slcwe vii Scotsmen. And after that wc caused the peices 

 be laid to shoot at the door of the steple which was a house-hight, and 

 that house-hight vampered with earth, and caused them further to myen. 

 And then the capitayne about foure of the clok afternoon took downe 

 liis pensall of defyaunce. And he and the men within the house cried 

 for mercie, who were answered that they all should be hanged. And 

 cryint; for 'mercie they said they wold siibmytt themselfs whatever we 

 would do with them by death or otherwise." 



