and neceflity at another ; ‘when the miftrefs of a ca'ftle has prefentL
her fons with their fpurs to remind them that her larder was emptB
and that by a forray they muft fupply it at the expence oftf
borderers ; when every evening the iheep were taken from tf
hills, and the cattle from their pafture, to be fecured in tfl
lower floor from robbers prowling like wolves for preyj 1
the difappointed thief found all in fafety, from the fears oft*
cautious owner. The following Ample lines give a true piftifl
of the times:
Then Jobnie Armfirong to W illie ’gan fay,
B illie i a riding then will we :
England and us have been long at feud,
Perhaps we may hit on fome bootie.
Then they’re come on to Hutton-ha,
T h e y rade that proper place ab o u t ;
. But the Laird he was the wifer man,
For he had le ft na geir without* '
Thefe were the exploits of petty robbers : but when p r i n t !
dittated an inroad, the cohiequences. bore a proportion to tliel
rank. An Armfirong. mightdrive away a few iheep ; but when I
Henry direds invafion, 1 9 2 towns, towers, ftedes, baraekyn|
churches, and bafltel-houles, are burnt, 403 Scots flain, 816 take!
prifoners ; 10.316 cattle, 12492 iheep, 1 2 9 6 nags and g e l d i n g l
200 goats, 200 bolls of corn, and infight geare without m e a f u r l
carried off. Such were the fuccefies during four months o f th|
year 1544*.
Haynes'5 State Papers, 43 to m
Croi
L f s the river, turn almoil due eaft, and, after a. ride of three or
L miies, find myfelf at the extremity of the kingdom. I look
|J to the north, and with a grateful mind acknowlege every
leiit I received from the remoteft of the Hebrides to the prefent
whether I think of the hofpitality of the rich, or the efforts
innblameable poverty, draining every nerve to accommodate me,
Jdft dreary hills, and ungenial ikies. The little accidents of diet, or
llodginvs, affeft not me: I look farther than the mere differences of
ling or of cuftoms ; to the good heart, and extenfive benevolence,
Tiich foftens every hardfhip, and turns into delicacies the grofleft
le. My conftitution never yet was difpofed to apathy ; for which I
claim no merit, but am thankful to the author of my frame, finee
1 1 feel not in myfelf thofe common antipathies that I can difcover
I in others: thofe national repugnancies do not touch me, nor
Idol behold with prejudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch,
■much more my f e l l o w s u b j e c t s , howfoever remotely placed
I from me. But where I find their aftions in balance with my
¡countrymens, I honour, love, and embrace them in fome decree,
I was born in the right climate, but feem to be framed
Band conftellated unto all: all places, all airs, make unto me
|one country; I am in England every where, and under every
[meridian
jCrofs an infignificant rill, called Riding-bum, and enter
N o r t h u m b e r l a n d .
j Pais through Carbarn, a village, on the fouthern banks of the
mid. Here was a houfe of black canons, a cell to that of Kirkham,
Religi0 M edici, p* 33«
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