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XXVlll INTRODUCTION.
as they had gone in the bounds of Fife." — Pits-
COTTIE, p. 153.
A breach with England interrupted the tranquil-
1532 lity of the Borders. The Earl of Northumberland,
a formidable name to Scotland, ravaged the Middle
Marches, and burned Branxholm, the abode of Buc-
cleuch, the hereditary enemy of the English name.
Buccleuch, with the Barons of Cessford and Fair-
nihirst, retaliated by a raid into England, where
153?. they acquired much spoil. On the East March,
Fowbery was destroyed by the Scots, and Dunglass
Castle by D'Arcy, and the banished Angus.
A short peace was quickly followed by another
war, which proved fatal to Scotland, and to her
King. In the battle of Haddenrig, the English,
and the exiled Douglasses, were defeated by the
Lords Huntly and Home ; but this was a transient
gleam of success. Kelso was burned, and the Bor-
1542 ders ravaged, by the Duke of Norfolk ; and finally,
the rout of Solway Moss, in which ten thousand
men, the flower of the Scottish army, were disper-
sed and defeated by a band of five hundred Eng-
lish cavalry, or rather by their own dissentions,
broke the proud heart of James; a death more