436 Notes on Branxhohne. By W. Eliott Lockhart. 



considerable damage, and that on the 1st Feb. his deputy Sir 

 Eichard Tempest, had made a foray and burnt three towns, and 

 taken much spoil and many prisoners. 1 



On the 3rd Feb. 1533, a raid was made on Branxhohne, 

 which is reported by Northumberland to King Henry VIII. in 

 an undated letter as follows : — 



" Pleaseth yt your most gracious highness to be aduertised, that my 

 comptroller, with Raynald Carnaby desyred licence of me to invade 

 the realme of Scotland, for the annoysaunce of your highnes enemys 

 where they thought best exploit by theyme might be done, and to 

 haue to concur withe theyme the inhabitants of Northumberland, suche 

 as was towards me according to theyre assembly, and as by theyre 

 discretions vpone the same they shulde thinke most convenient ; and 

 sOo they dyde meet vppon Monday, before night, being the iii. day of this 

 instant monethe at Wawhope, upon Northe Tyne water, above Tyndaill, 

 where they were to the number of xvc. men, and soo invadet Scotland at 

 the hour of viii. of the clok at nyght, at a place called Whele Causay ; and 

 before xi. of the clok, dyd send forth a forrey of Tyndaill and Byddisdail, 

 and laide all the resydewe in a bushment, and actyvely did set vpon a 

 towne called Branxholm, where the Laird of Buclough dwellythe, and 

 purpesed theymeselves with a trayne for hym lyke to his accustomed maner, 

 in rysynge to all frayes: albeit, that knyghte he was not at home, and so 

 they brynt the said Branxholm, and other townes, as to say, Whichestre, 

 Whichestre-helme, and Whelloy, and haid ordered theymeself, soo that 

 sundry of the said Lord Buclough' s servants, who dyd issue fonrthe of his 

 gates, was takyn prisoners. They dyd not leve one house, one stak of 

 corne, nor one shyef, without the gate of the said Lord Buclough vnbrynt ; 

 and thus scrymaged and frayed, supposing the Lord of Buclough to be 

 within iii. or iiii. myles to have trayned him to the bushment : and soo in 

 the brej'king of the day dyd the forrey and the bushment mete, and reculed 

 homeward, making theyr way westward from theyre invasion to be over 



Lyddersdaill Your highnes' subjects was xiii. myles within 



the group.de of Scotlande, and is from my house at Werkworthe, above Ix. 

 miles of the most evil passage, where great snawes doth lye ; hertofore the 

 same townes now brynt haith not at any tyme in the mynd of man in any 

 warrs been enterprised unto novve ; your subjects were thereto more encour- 

 aged for the better advancement of your kighues service, the said Lord of 

 Buclough beyng always a mortall enemy to this your Graces realme, and 

 he dyd say. within xiii. days before, he woulde see who durst lye near hym : 

 wt many other cruell words, the knowledge whereof was certainly haid to my 

 said servaunts, before theyre enterprice maid vpon him : most humblj r 

 beseeching your majesty, that youre highnes thanks may concur vnto 

 theyme, whose names be here inclosed, to have in your most gracious 



' State Papers, Henry VIII., vol. iv., (from Chapter House Royal Letters. 

 vol. i.^p. 632-3. 



