232 The English Raids on Dumfries in 1570. 



Although the repudiation of all former bands is a conventional 

 phrase, yet there is some reason for supposing that the town had 

 entered into some bond with Lord Herries, but, from the want of 

 the principal document, to what purpose is not clear. On three 

 different occasions money was sent to the laird of Newby by the 

 burgh " efter vertew of the tones band for relief of Jon lord 

 heries."^2 xhe transaction, whatever it may have been, was not 

 cleared up until January, 1575. 



" The delyverance vpone the lord hereis complant 



The qlk day the provest and counsell abone wr}1:tin ordains 

 fourtie punds money of the first and rediest of the nixt witsonday 

 maleis and failzeand thairof of vyther commone guds or stent 

 of the said town to be payit and gewin at his Lordship's command 

 to sic persone as he will appoynt the Samyn to be gewin and that 

 in compleit payment of the Sowme of ane hundreth punds promeist 

 be his Lordship the tyme of the ost of Ingland brunt the valter of 

 meilk and dryvesdale the qlk sowme thay appoynt to be payit at 

 witsonday nextocum provydand the said lord geif ane discharge 

 to the town of the said Sowme of ane hundreth punds and of all 

 farder promesses of farder Sowms for that caus and heir vpon the 

 provest and counsell decernit act. ' '■'^ 



Sussex was determined to reduce the South-west. He would 

 not have let it alone so long had not some extraordinary impedi- 

 ments prevented him from taking the field. Short of money, he 

 Avas forced to pledge his credit to raise funds, an outbreak of 

 plague at Newcastle had compelled him temporarily to disperse 

 his forces, and finally foul weather and flooding delayed him. 



On the 15th of August he wrote from Warkworth to Lord 

 Herries that he " is sorry that he has given him just cause to alter 

 his good opinion of him, for that he has kept and maintained 

 within his rule Leonard Dacres, Egremont Radclif,^^ and others, 

 notorious rebels and manifest conspirators against the Queen of 



32. Burgh Coin-t Book, I, viii., 1570; 14 ii., 1571; vide also 

 Account, pp. 228-9. 



33. Burgh Court Books, 22, i., 1574/5. 



34. Egremont Radcliffe was the Earl of Sussex's brother. He 

 had taken a prominent part in the rebellion in the North of 

 England. 



