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fear that thei sail land. The cardinall scripped and said, 

 1 It is but the island note (English fleet, Calderwood) ; they 

 are cum to inak a schaw and put us in fear ; I shall lodge 

 all the men-of-war in my eae (eye) that shall land in Scot- 

 land/ Still sits the cardinall at his dennare, even as that 

 there had been no danger appearing. Men convenis to gaze 

 upon the schippis, some on the Castell hill, some to the 

 cragis and other places eminent. But there was no ques- 

 tion, ' With what forces shall we resist yf we be invaded?' 

 Sone after sax hours at nycht, were aryved and had casten 

 anchor in the Koad of Leyth mo than 200 sailles. Shortly 

 thereafter the Admirall (Sir John Dudley, Lord Lisle) schot 

 a flote boite, which from Granton Craggis till be east of 

 Leith, sounded the deepe, and so returned to his schippe. 

 Here of were diverse opinion. Men of judgement foresaw 

 what it meant, but no credit was given to any that wold say, 

 * Thei mynd to land* and so past all men to his rest, as if 

 thei schippis had been a garde to his defence. Vpon the 

 point of day, being Soneday the 4th of Maij, addressed thei 

 for landing and ordered thei their schippis so that a galley 

 or two laid their snowttis to the craigis. The small schippis 

 called pinaces and light horsemen approached as neir als 

 thei could the great schippis dischargit thare soulioris in the 

 smaller veschellis, and thei by bottis put on dry land befoir 

 ten houris 10,000 men. The governour and cardinall, see- 

 ing then the thing that they could nott, or at least thei 

 would not believe befoir, after that thei had made a brag to 

 fecht, fled as fast as horses wold carry them, so that after 

 thei approched not within xx myles of the danger." — From 

 Br D. H. Robertson's Antiquities of Leith, p. 18. 



Another fact may be mentioned here as confirmatory of 

 the foregoing remarks. My friend Dr Paterson, well known 

 as the assiduous collector of the fossils of Wardie, between 

 Leith and Granton, was fortunate enough to discover an 

 earthen jar six feet under the foundation of one of the oldest 

 houses in Leith. The bed in which it lay was pure sand, 

 the equivalent of Geikie's bed No. 2 (that is, blown sand). 

 This vessel was submitted to the inspection of Mr Birch, of 

 the British Museum, who returned as his opinion, "that its 



