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HAMILTON’S EXPEDITION
Langdale gave private notice to the English, who did as they
weer directed, himselfe staing all the while in a house neer to
them, but my Lord of Argile made noe other opposition but
by his negative, and the votes beeing past accordeing to
Duke Hamleton’s desire, the English gentlemen* had noe
more to doe, but at the riseing of the House that evening,
to attend Duke Hamleton to his lodgeing.
The Scotts weer contented-]- Sir Marmaduke Langdale should
take in Garble and Barwick, upon ingagement under his hand
that he should give them upp to the Scotts upon demand,
pretending they had a grant of them under the King’s hand,1
and that unless the English did condescend to it, the Scotts
would not be satisfied, yet would they not owne the proceed¬
ings of the English nor assist them with any Scotch troops
(which was much prest by Sir Marmaduke), only they promised
presently to send 500 musketts and 10 barrells of pouder
to each garrison, to bring their army within xx dais into
England, and if wee weer in distress to send us releef without
any dispute.2
The same day Sir Marmaduke Langdale went towards
Barwick (haveing sent some English horse before him), Sir
Philip Musgrave towards Garble without any forces with him,
and orders from Sir Marmaduke that he should stay at Annan
within Scotland till he came to him.
Sir Marmaduke Langdale found it necessare to march to
Barwick that day, J and he came thither with about 100 horse
just in time, for his design was discovered, and the Maior of
the Cittie had closed one port, and was ready to have closed
the other at which Sir Marmaduke at the same instant entered.3
* The English about 200. t April 27, 1648. J April 28.
1 The engagement between the King and the Scots Commissioners, signed at
Carisbrooke on December 26, 1647, authorised the Scots army ‘ to possess them¬
selves of Berwick, Carlisle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tynemouth, and Hartlepool,
for to be places of retreat and magazine, and when the peace of the kingdom is
settled, the kingdom of Scotland shall remove their forces, and deliver back
again the said towns and castles. ’—Gardiner, Constitutional Documents of the
Puritan Revolution, p. 263.
2 See Clarendon, History of the Rebellion, xi. 50.
3 Accounts of the surprise of Berwick are given in Rushworth, vii. 1099, 1102,
1105, 1114.