The English Raids on Dumfries in 1570. 223 



feld [Amisfield], Cowhill and Tenoll [Tinwald] widi the nomber 

 of iiiic horsemen and vie footmen charged them very sore and 

 forced them to light and drawe ther company into a strong place 

 to abide the charge of ther enemyes and so they remayned untill 

 the said Symon came unto them and lighted and put his company 

 in order and sett his horses betwene his company and the sea, and 

 so stode in order to receive the enemy and contynewed in this 

 sort chardging and receiving ther chardges the space of thre 

 howres, I being at Cumber trees aforesaid, a place before 

 appointed betwene me and the said Simon for his relefe, being 

 distant from him thre mvles. And having understanding of 

 somme distresse, I sent my band of horsemen with my brother 

 Edward Scrope and cltie shott with Mr Audelly and Mr Harbert 

 to ther relefe and the said S}mon upon the comming of the said 

 horsemen and shott gave the ennemyes the chardge with all his 

 forces. Wherapon they fiedd, in which flight ther was taken c^b 

 prisoners whereof somme was of the pety Lerdes of the countrey." 

 Lords Maxwell, Carlisle, and Johnston and the rest before- 

 named escaped by the strength of the Laird of Cockpole's house 

 and a great wood and a ' marris ' there adjoining. And so the 

 said Simon repaired to me with his company and so we returned 

 home." 



Postscript. — Drumlanrigs servants and tenants, whom I had 

 given charge that they should not be dealt with, for that he 

 favoured the Kings faction and the Queen's Majesty were as 

 cruel against us as any other. "^^ 



To a letter addressed to Cecil, which is almost a duplicate 

 of the above, Scrope appended a threat. " Sir, I have written 

 to my Lord Lieutenant for 500 men, but for fourteen days; and 

 with them I will undertake to march to Drumfriese, and lie in 

 that town and burn and spoil it, if the Queen's Majesty think it 

 good; for the open receipt of Her Majesty's Rebels is there 

 manifest. "^'^ 



It is evident that Scrope was not satisfied with his raid. He 

 was in fact compelled to abandon his project as we learn from 

 Lord Herries, who, however, may also exaggerate. " Upon the 

 west, the Lord Scroop, with an armie, came into Annandaile, 



13. Cal. of State Papers, Scotland, Vol. III., p. 129. 



14. Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra. 3rd ed. London, 1691. 

 164. 



