Series 3 > Scottish correspondence of Mary of Lorraine

250 THE SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENCE OF
grace evir. Of the camp this fersday at iiij houris
arly.
Your grace mast humill and obedient servitour
Methven.1
The boy sayis ther is on Tuisday and We[dn]isday last
iic men slayn wyth our artallzery.2
[Endorsed : M. de Mestafan.]
CLXXVII
Methven to the Queen Dowager
Edinburgh, 17th July [1548].
TO THE QUENNIS GRACE.
Madem, this xvj day of Julij the cannonis was reterit
fra the seg be command of Monsur Basse.3 He remanys
still yet at the seg, and daly and nychtly the carmosche
cessis nocht. Mone slayn in the toun, and part of France
men. The France men and Count Rangraif4 wald haif
givin the sout, and Monsieur Basse of gud mynd therto,
and the hour of the sout elf ext.5 In the present tym the
word com be post out of Ingland at xij houris in the nycht
that the lord Gray wyth an greit army wes apon Coldingam
mwr,6 xviij myllis fra Hadington, and than it was con-
1 A holograph letter, apparently written on the morning of 5th July. Two
days later the Dowager herself was present in the parliament held in the
monastery of Haddington when the marriage contract between Queen Mary and
the Dauphin was concluded by the Estates. (A.P. ii. 481.)
2 This postcript is written longwise, in the margin.
3 Andre de Montalembert, Seigneur d’Esse, Lieutenant-general of the French
troops in Scotland.
4 The Rhinegrave, Philippe-Franfois of the house of Salm, a captain of
German mercenaries, then in the service of France. In the winter of 1546-7
he had been in negotiations to sell his services to Somerset. (Selve, 46, 65, 84.)
6 Fixed for Saturday, 14th July. Contentions broke out between the Gov¬
ernor and d’Esse over military proceedings, ‘and the Scots so wearied of it,
that 1000 stale from the field’ on Sunday morning. (C.S.P. i. 290, 292.)
6 Lord Grey was advancing with reinforcements to Coldingham and the
Pease during the week-end, Saturday to Monday, 14th to 16th July. (Ibid.
292, 293.)