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to myen,” says Wharton exultingly : to hold the fortress after its 
door had been battered in by artillery was impessible. At 8 in 
the morning the fierce siege had begun, gunner, hackbutteer, 
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 church 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 
*Excerpt from Wharton and Lennox’s most interesting despatch :— 
‘© We were informede that the Governor hade sent one Jamys Lyone with 
viith guners 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 the Ynglish 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 vight so 
nere the steple as we could, and the same night at our lodging sent 
somons to the capitayne 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 divised that night 
howe we shulde maike warre agaynst the house on the morowe. At 
vilith 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 whiche 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 pyoneers 
cutt the walle of the east ende of the quere over thwart above the 
earthe, and caused the hoole ende to falle, wherewith the rooff and tymber 
falling inwards slewe vii Scotsmen. And after that we 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 
his pensall of defyaunce. And he and the men within the house cried 
for mercie, who were answered that they all should be hanged. And 
erying for mercie they said they wold submytt themselts whatever we 
would do with them by death or otherwise.” 
