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MARY OF LORRAINE
213
Daveson Andrew Daveson Thomas Daveson Robert
Daveson David Dow and Jhon Dow Jhon Wykquo1
Jamis Parke Willzem Awell 2 Jamis Lyell Thomas Lyell
Jamis Burges, Willzem Gray, Thomas Dyngwell.
Ye man be so good as to deliver your teiketis for thir
fore namit men to the beirar heirof, for at this tyme we
ar so disapoyntit that we can have none of our awn
convoyit to yow.
CLI
Alexander Gordon to the Earl of Huntly
Stirling, 18th January [1547-8],
TO MY LORD.
My lord, efter himyll commendacione off service pleis
witt I wreitt to yowr lordschip owt off Bretainzze affoir,3
and sen my cummyng in this realm I haid nocht the
oportunite to wreitt quhill now, and yit dar nocht be plane
in this wreittyng becais I feir it haippin in vrang handdis.
Bot yowr lordschip salbe assurit, with owt it be that
thyng that God will nocht permit, this realme wilbe
debaittit to the owtraist quhill wre may lest: quh[i]lk is
concludit, and we have all reddy sic moyance bayth off
force off men off wyr strangerreris and mony with all
wthyris munitiones necessaires ; and planely, my lord, or
we be swa cruelly owrthrawin in this maneir we will
randyr to the Twrk rathyr nor to be onrewangit. All
christyn prenccis dispiccis this fasson off wyr that is to
slay nobill men efter thay be randeritt, and thay that ar
presonerris will nocht put thame to ransome. Thocht
Governor and Bishop Hamilton. They missed their opportunity and the plot
came to nothing. (C.S.P. i. 121, 125, 129 ; Archbps. of St. Andrews, v. 43-4.)
It would appear that Argyle had dealings with England even before the attack
on Dundee.
1 Wykquo, Wickow, a variant of th2 surname Woodcock. (E. Beveridge,
Churchyard Memorials of Crail.)
2 Awell, apparently a variant of Annand, Anand, Annell. (Ibid.)
3 Alexander Gordon had set sail for France, by the western seas, a few days
before the disaster of Pinkie. He had returned to Scotland before 10th Decem¬
ber, bringing pecuniary assistance in advance of the expeditionary force under
la Chapelle. (Selve, 220, 249.)
213
Daveson Andrew Daveson Thomas Daveson Robert
Daveson David Dow and Jhon Dow Jhon Wykquo1
Jamis Parke Willzem Awell 2 Jamis Lyell Thomas Lyell
Jamis Burges, Willzem Gray, Thomas Dyngwell.
Ye man be so good as to deliver your teiketis for thir
fore namit men to the beirar heirof, for at this tyme we
ar so disapoyntit that we can have none of our awn
convoyit to yow.
CLI
Alexander Gordon to the Earl of Huntly
Stirling, 18th January [1547-8],
TO MY LORD.
My lord, efter himyll commendacione off service pleis
witt I wreitt to yowr lordschip owt off Bretainzze affoir,3
and sen my cummyng in this realm I haid nocht the
oportunite to wreitt quhill now, and yit dar nocht be plane
in this wreittyng becais I feir it haippin in vrang handdis.
Bot yowr lordschip salbe assurit, with owt it be that
thyng that God will nocht permit, this realme wilbe
debaittit to the owtraist quhill wre may lest: quh[i]lk is
concludit, and we have all reddy sic moyance bayth off
force off men off wyr strangerreris and mony with all
wthyris munitiones necessaires ; and planely, my lord, or
we be swa cruelly owrthrawin in this maneir we will
randyr to the Twrk rathyr nor to be onrewangit. All
christyn prenccis dispiccis this fasson off wyr that is to
slay nobill men efter thay be randeritt, and thay that ar
presonerris will nocht put thame to ransome. Thocht
Governor and Bishop Hamilton. They missed their opportunity and the plot
came to nothing. (C.S.P. i. 121, 125, 129 ; Archbps. of St. Andrews, v. 43-4.)
It would appear that Argyle had dealings with England even before the attack
on Dundee.
1 Wykquo, Wickow, a variant of th2 surname Woodcock. (E. Beveridge,
Churchyard Memorials of Crail.)
2 Awell, apparently a variant of Annand, Anand, Annell. (Ibid.)
3 Alexander Gordon had set sail for France, by the western seas, a few days
before the disaster of Pinkie. He had returned to Scotland before 10th Decem¬
ber, bringing pecuniary assistance in advance of the expeditionary force under
la Chapelle. (Selve, 220, 249.)
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