Notes on Brartxhulme. By W. EJiott Lockhart. 439 



" Jeving also a garrison of 2 or 3 thousande on the Borders to annoye the 

 Lardes of Saynt Johnstons, and Bncklengh, and such others as be not 

 Your Majesties frendes ther." 1 



The French faction having gained the ascendancy, the Govern- 

 ment of Scotland repudiated the treaty made with Henry VIII. 

 for the marriage of the youthful Mary Queen of Scots, to Edward 

 Prince of Wales. To avenge this, Henry ordered an invasion of 

 the H orders. This invasion, under the command of Sir Ealph 

 Ewers and Sir Brian Latoun, was of the most terrible and 

 devastating description, and lasted from the beginning of July to 

 to the end of Nov. 1544. The sum total of places destroyed, and 

 damage done is as follows : — 



Towns, towers, stedes, barmkyns, paryshe churches, and 

 bastel houses 192 ; shepe 12,429 ; 



Scots slain 403 ; nags and geldings 1926 ; 



prisoners taken 816 ; bolls of corn 850 ; 



nolt 10,386; insight gear, etc., to an amount 



apparently unknown. 2 



Buccleuch's lands did not escape : Lord Wharton wrote on 

 the 27th August. 



"The west and mydle marches, with certen Scottishmen, invaded West 

 Tividall upon the Lord of Bucklugh's lands, and burned divers townes and 

 stedes in their way, and went and burnt the barmkeyn at the Lord of 

 Bucklngh's towre at Branxham, and have brought away 600 oxen, and 

 kyen, 600 shepe, certen horse and nags, 200 gayt, and as moche spoyle of 

 insight geare as they could carry away, and have taken 30 prisoners and 

 slayn 8 Scotts." 3 



Also on the same date, Lord Evre reports : — 



"Sir Bryan Layton, Henry Evre, Robert Collingwood, etc., renged the 

 woods of Woddon, where they gate moche bagage, naggs, shepes.and nolt, 

 and hath slayn about the said woods 30 Scotts ; and from fchens they went to a 

 towre of the Lord of Bucklugh's, called Mosshouse,and won the barmkyn, and 

 gate many naggs and nolt, and smoked very sore the towre, and tooke 30 pri 

 soners, and so they have brought away horses and naggs, 180 or 200 nolt, 400 

 shepe, moche insight geare and burned the town of Woodon, and many 

 shells and houses in the said wood, and other stedes and mylnes in their 

 way ; Scotts slain 30." 4 



Strenuous efforts were made to win over Buccleuch to the 

 English cause, but without avail ; and by the reinforcements he 



1 State Papers, Henry VIII. , vol. v., part iv., p. 360. 



2 Scotts of Buccleuch, vol. i., p. 104. Hayne's State Papers; p. 445. 

 Hist, of Liddisdale, App. xxxvi., p. lxxi. Border Antiquities, App. x., p. Ivi-vii. 



3 Hayne's State Papers, p. 445. Border Antiquities. App v.. p. xlvii. 



4 Ibid 



