Other new and prosperous adventures of late against the Scots.
After the time that the Earl of HERTFORD,
Lieutenant to the King's Majesty in the North
parts of the realm, had dissolved the army, which
lately had been within Scotland; and repaired
to the King's Highness: the Lord EURE, with many
other valiant wise gentlemen—abiding in the Marches
of the North part—intending not by idleness to surcease in
occasions convenient, but to prove whether the Scots had yet
learned by their importable [unbearable] losses lately chanced
to them, to tender their own weals by true and reasonable
uniting and adjoining themselves to the King's Majesty's
loving liege people—took consultation by the advice of Sir
RALPH EURE his son, and other sage forward gentlemen;
upon the 9th day of June [1544], at a place named Mylnefeld;
from whence by common agreement, the said lord with a good
number of men, made such haste into Scotland, that by
four of the clock after the next midnight, he had marched
within a half mile of the town whereunto they tended, named
Jedworth [Jedburgh]."
After their coming, a messenger was sent unto the Provost of the said town, letting him to know "that the Lord EURE was come before the town to take it into the King's allegiance, by means of peace if thereunto the Scots would truly agree, or else by force of arms to sack the same if therein resistance were found." Whereunto the Provost—even like to prove himself a Scot—answered by way of request, "that they might be respected upon their answer until the noontide or else to maintain their town with defence:" having hope that in tracting [treating] and driving off time they might work some old cowardly subtilty. But upon his declaration made, the snake crawling under the flowers easily appeared to them, which had experience: knowledge also being had, that the
