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England and also had both secretly and openly conference with 

 them. He requires him to deliver him up presently to Lord 

 Scrope, which if he refuses to do he must take him as an evil 

 wilier to the Queen, and an enemy to the good quiet of both 

 realms. "■5^ The following day he wrote to Lennox, Livingstone, 

 and Lethington that I,eonard Dacres, Edward Dacres, and 

 Richard Dacres being still maintained by Herries and the 

 Maxwells, " he cannot, with honour, permit these injurious 

 contempts to pass without revenge. "^^ On the 18th, from Car- 

 lisle, he wrote to the Laird of Drumlanrig, who " favoured the 

 King's faction, "'5''' "that he does not mean to disturb him or any 

 other good subjects of Scotland, and therefore requires him to 

 separate himself from all the company of all such as have 

 contemjituously behaved, lest some displeasure might happen to 

 any of those who have not deserved ill. Desired him to give 

 knowledge hereof to all good subjects of these parts. "^^ On the 

 20th he informs Cecil that he " has been forced by the rain and 

 greatness of the waters to stay his journey. By this accident 

 the Scots have time to fly their goods, man their strengths, and 

 assemble their forces. ' ' Following the strategic methods he had 

 adopted in April to prevent concentrated attack, he " has given 

 orders to Lord Hunsdon and Sir John Forster to make shows as 

 though they would enter Scotland, by which means he thinks every 

 Borderer will stand upon his own guard and so their general 

 assembly may be avoided. Leonard Dacres," he adds, "was 

 yesternight at Dumfries, in Lord Maxwell's house. '^^ Sussex's 

 strategy was successful, for he appears to have met with no 

 organised resistance throughout. 



With a force of 30 halbardiers, 300 lances, 573 light horse- 

 men, and 1900 footmen, with officers,'"' Sussex advanced (.n the 

 22nd, and details the results of the raid in a report to Elizabeth 

 on his return. 



35. Cal. State Papers, For. Ser., Aug. 15, 1570. 



36. Op. cit., Aug. 16. 



37. Op. cit., April 21. 



38. Cal. State Papers, For. Ser., 18th August. 



39. Op. cit., 20th August. 



40. Op. cit., 31st August, entry 1196. "The total debt and 

 charge for the army up to 31st August amounted to £21,140 16s." 

 (Entry 1224.) 



