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with his trench on the other side Tweede, yet altered his 

 designe from the first intention for the fashion of the worke 

 and made a strong home woorke of it and kept watch in it 

 every night, but never manned it, neither was it wholly 

 finished before the pacificacion. And now for the king's 

 better passage they mede a bridge over Tweede with .boates. 



It was supposed the lord gene rail's goeing with such a power 

 of horse to Dunce, made the Scots come soe soddainely downe, 

 fearing least the king should fall in with fire and sword 

 uppon them, and therefore the(y) pitched soe neare to 

 prevent it. 



In the Whi(t)son weeke, I remember not well what day, the 

 lord generall of the horse, with [a space is left here] horse and 

 1,500 foote commanded by Lieutenant-colonel Ernley and 

 Cromewell, went into Scotland to Kellsoe, to descry the army, 

 and what further intentions there were I know not, but the 

 horse over went their foote soe farre, the weather beeing 

 exceeding hott, that they found themselves engaged to the 

 whole Scottsh army, and had, beene ruled by some hott 

 heads amongst them, it was thought they had been cut of, 

 ere theire foote could have come up to them ; and when they had 

 come, theire march was so long, and they soe weary, they 

 could have givem noe assistance. Soe the lieutenant general. 

 Goring, and Commissary Willmot, perswaded my Lord 

 Holland to retrait, which consideracions, and the king's com- 

 mand by letter to that purpose, caused them to retire. 



Then the Scotts began to seke the king, but with their 

 woonted justificacion, neither craving his pardon nor acknow- 

 ledging any offence. 



[June] 6. On Thursday in Whitson weeke they sent the 

 Lord Dumfarlin, a young man, sonne-in-law to the Lord 

 Morton, with a letter to the lords and a peticion to the king. 



' The peticion 

 ' To the king's most excellent majestic the supplicacion 



' of his majestie's subjects of Scotland. 

 'Humbly shewing, 

 ' That where the former meanes used by us, have not beene 

 ' effectuall for the recovering your majestie's favour, and the 



