Mr. Hardy's Account of Exjemouih Fort. 423 



of it being made on the eve of that invasion of Scotland which 

 terminated in the battle of Pinkie, On " Thursday, the first 

 of September," says Patten, " Hys Grace, not Avith many- 

 mo then his awn bande of horsmen, roade too a towne in the 

 Scottishe borders, standynge vpon the sea coaste, a vi. mile 

 frome Berwycke, and is called Aymouth, whereat there 

 runneth a rieur into the sea, ye whiche he caused to be 

 sounded; and perseyuyng then the same well to be able to 

 serue for a hauen, hath caused since their buylding to be 

 made, whereof both Master and Capitayn is Thomas Gower. 

 Marshal of Berwycke."* The object of Somerset in this war, 

 was to obtain the hand of the young Queen Mary for Edward 

 VI. ; but the Scots, like, the Earl of Huntly, did " not lyke thys 

 wooyng"; and England more than ever was accounted their 

 "auld enemy." Thomas Gower, the governor, was ancestor 

 in line of the present Duke of Sutherland. Sir George Doug- 

 las, a man who " Avould not be won without money," stipu- 

 lated to have this office as the price of his treason.f In 1550, 

 by the convention of Boulogne, the forts of Dunglas, Lauder, 

 Roxburgh, and Eyemouth, were ordered to be demolished, 

 three months after the treaty was concluded. Before this was 

 carried into effect, the English garrisons left not oiF still to 

 molest and pillage the country in their vicinity. By an act 

 of the Scottish Council, 22nd May, 1550, it is complained 

 that although the forts of Eoxburgh and Eyemouth were to 

 be rendered against a certain day, and not to be rebuilt by 

 either of the nations, "nochttheles the personis Inglismen 

 presentlie being in the saidis fortis, day lie and continewalie 

 makis incursions upoun our Soverane Ladyis lieges nixt ad- 

 jacent unto thame, reifis, spulzeis, and oppressis thame, tend- 

 ing to do that is in thame to violate and brek the Pece, contrair 

 the myndis of the Princis." Good lieges were charged by 

 Proclamation, to apprehend them, whensoever this should 

 happen, and hold them as just and lawful prisoners. J To 

 further certain purposes of state policy, the French king, in 

 1557, advised the Queen Dowager of Scotland to re-edify the 

 fort at Eyemouth, in direct violation of the treaty between the 

 kingdoms, and with this design M. D' Oysel, " ane man of 

 singular guid judgment, and well experimented in warres, 

 and greatlie esteemed in France for the same," is deputed to 



* Expedicion into Scotlande. (Dalyell's Fragments), p. 29. 



t Tytler's Hist, of Scotland, III , p. 577. 



X Keith's History, (Spottiswoode Society), I., p. 44'8, 449. 



