Domestic Annals of Scotland - 1874 Author:Robert Chambers Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REGENCIES OF LENNOX AND MAR: 1570-1572. The death of the Regent Moray proved a great blow to the infant king's party, for there was no man of equal mark and e... more »nergy to take his place. The friends of the exiled queen raised their heads again, and in a force which might well give the ruling party some anxiety. Seeing the imminence of the danger, Elizabeth yielded to the wishes of Mary's enemies, and sent an army under the Earl of Sussex into Scotland in April, who ' burnt, herrit, and destroyit sae mickle of the Merse and Teviotdale as they might be masters of, asseizit the castle of Farniehirst, and demolisbit the same, and thereafter past to Hawick and to Branksholm, and burnt and herrit the same, ' thus punishing the Scotts, Kerrs, and others who had lately made a hostile incursion in Mary's behalf into England. Towards the end of the month, they besieged and took Hume Castle. A similar army under Sir William Drury entered Scotland in the ensuing month, and committed the like havock in Lanarkshire, so as to disable the queen's friends of the house of Hamilton. The sufferings thus occasioned in certain districts were dreadful, and the principal sufferers were the poor. In Hume Castle, when taken by Sussex, ' was the hale guids and gear perteining to the hale tenants of my Lord Hume, wherethrough the saids puir tenants were allutterly herrit.' The devastation at Hamilton was ' in sic sort and maner as the like in this realm has not been heard before.' And when the English troops came thence to Linlithgow on their return, ' they herrit all the Monkland, the Lord Fleming's bounds, my Lord Livingstone's bounds, together with all their puir tenants and friends, in sic maner that nae heart can think thereon but the same must be dolorous.'—D. O. Yet this was but a foretaste of the woes...« less