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garde And they appoyntcd us the same pursuivante Dyngwell whiche did give 

 us warnyng to take hedc to ourselfis. 



" And the xxv u daye of Novembre the said pursuivante Dyngwell and wee 

 retourned homewards furthe of Eddenburghe towards Dunbarre and was there 

 appurposed to bee lodgid that night. And when we were within two myle of 

 Dunbarre it waxed nere evene and it begane to bee darke Somersett and his boye 

 riding before, and I, Barwike and the Scottishe Pursuivante riding bihynde theym 

 And thene ther came riding twoo men on horsbakk and oon on fote with theyme 

 and overrode Barwike and the Scottis pursuivante and ranne to Somersett with- 

 oute speaking anye oon woorde unto hym and oon of thies thre strange men ranne 

 him thorowe with a launce staf byhynde hym and oon othere did stryke hym to 

 the harte with a dagger and the thirde stroke the said Somersettis boye on the 

 face with his swoorde and soo they fell bothe to the grounde And then the said 

 strange men did light of theire horssis and their said hors did ronne from theyme 

 And streightwey the said Barwik and the Scottish pursuivante came to theym 

 and said Tie on you trators he have done a shamefull acte And with that they 

 did leve Somersett lying deade and he that was on fote did runne after their owne 

 horssis and the twoo horsemen did runne to Maister Somersettis horssis and did 

 take theym and lepte upon theyme oon saying to the othere ' Fie, we have loste 

 the other herityke ' meanyng the same by the said Barwike And Barwik hering 

 this did spurre and ronne his hors from theyme And they perceiving that they 

 coulde not gette the said Barwik wente bakke agayne and spoiled the said Som- 

 ersett of his purse, his cote, his swoorde with all his othere gere but his dubblett 

 and his hois [hose], and did give Somersett's said boye x bluddie wounds. 



" And when they hadde soo donne the said thre strange men did speake to the 

 pursuivante of Scotlande thenne beinge presente and as lie the said Scottishe 

 pursuivante and the boye said, badde hym beare wittenes and testifie to the 

 Counsaill and all otheres that it was John Prestman, William Leche and his 

 brothere, banysshed Inglishmen, whiche did sley the said Somersett and no 

 Scottishmen. 



" And after this Barwick fledde by the waye up to the mountaynes and he came 

 to a Castell called Ennerwik * and there remayned all that night And on the 

 mornyng I the said Barwik desired James Hamyltone larde of the same castell "f" 

 to sende to the counsaill that I mought come to speake with the King and theym. 

 And they sente answere to me agayne by a letter that I shulde bee conveied into 

 Englande ground by the said James Hamyltone and oon William Hume with 

 their companyes extending to the nombre of xx" horses, and soo it was done. 



" But yet the said Barwik on the next mornyng accompayned with xx' 1 families 

 in harnes of the s d James Hamyltone's retourned unto the bodie of the said 

 Somersett and caused the same to be honestlie buried in the parishe Churche of 

 Dunbarre. And alsoo he caused the said Somersett's boye to be loked unto by 

 wey of surgerie for healing of his wounds but whether he shall live or die the 

 said Barwik knoweth not." 



• Alnwick : from which the next letter is dated, written after Ray's arrival there. 



+ The title of Percy, Earl of Northumberland, was, at this time, under attainder : which may 

 account for " James Hamilton " (second Earl of Arran) being " lorde of the castle." 



