o f Palinjburne-Hall, where all our wants were relieved in the amplefI
F loddon h e l d , manner. From his houfe we vifited Floddon hill, celebrated in hif-J
tory for the greateft lofs the Scots ever fuftained. Here, in 13.13,1
encamped James IV. in his ill-advifed invafion of England. Accord]
ing to the cuftom of the time, every chieftain haer his feparate camp,-I
whofe veftiges are apparent to this day. Infatuated with the love 0]
Lady Heron, of Ford, a neighboring caftle *, he wafted his days in]
inactivity, and fuffered the fair Delilah to vifit the Earl of Surry, the!
General of his enemy, underpretence, of receiving from her, in]
telligence of his motions. She betrayed her credulous lover, whofei
army dwindled by delay, of which clans were always impatient,!
The enemy unexpectedly appeared before him ; he would neither]
permit a retreat, nor fuffer his gallant mafter of artillery to annoy*
them in their paffage over the T illf. Surry, cut off his paffage into.]
Scotland, and brought on the engagement, that the devoted prince foj
much wiihed for: it raged chiefly near Brankfion. The Scots formed!
a ring round their monarch, and he fell with many wounds, fur-]
rounded by the dead bodies of his faithful nobility. Not a great]
houfe in Scotland but lamented the lofs of its chieftain or near rela]
tion. The body of the king was-carried to London, and (after the]
excommunication was taken off, on reprefentation that he had given!
figns of repentance in. his. laft moments J) was interred at SbmM
The Scots pretend that his body was never found,, and that which]
was taken for it by the Englijh, was that of one of his nobility ]
for many on that fatal day dreffed themfelves in. the fame habit. I
• Lindefay, p. 1 13 . Drummond, 145.
4 Lindefay, 1 16 .
t Sym tr's Feeders, x iii. p. 385..
hey' alledge~ that the body found was not furrounded with the
initential chain * ; but it is poflible, as Mr. Guthrie imagines, that
jn of remorfe for his parricide was only worn on certain days,
■sfword and dagger are now in the Heralds office, prefented by the
Iftorious earl -f-.
I Pafs near Ford caftle, now the feat of Sir John Deleval, poffeffed
»the reign of Henry III. by. Odonelde Ford-, and by the marriage of
Bis daughter to William Heron, pafled into that family J : from them
’to the Carrs;- from the Carrs to the prefent owner.
■ Crofs Millefield plain, a flat of five miles extent; obferve on one
larta circular camp, with a fingle fofs and dike; and oppofite to it,
■mall fquare entrenchment. At the village of Millefield is faid to
¡lave been the refidence of the kings of Bernicia after Edwin §. On
■e right is Copeland caftle; a fquare tower, formerly the feat o f the
Wallaces, but in our time transferred to the Ogles, by purchafe.
]ofs the Glen, a ¡Spall' river, but honored with baptizing in its waters
■multitude of Northumbrians, who were converted by Paulims, after
fiing Edwin had embraced the 1 faith : the refidence of him and
|is queen being at that time at Adigefrin, the neighboring Te- |
■ Pafs by Humbledon hill, where, in 1401, the Scots under Archibald,
]arl of Douglas, received a fignal defeat by the Englijh, commanded
By Henry Percy, furnamed Hotfpur, in vvhich Douglas was taken
I lindefay, 96, 1 1 7 , t I 8.
I t Lamie’s Hi it. Floddon, frontifpiece.
I t Dngdale, Baron, I. 730.
I ! CJ md,ny lr - l ° 97- W allis, II,
I I aide, lib, n , Ct
O 0 2 prifoner.
Octoser 1.