ABSTRACT
Somerset aimed to maintain English control over Scotland from a string of garrisons across the Lowlands. The murderers of Cardinal Beaton who were holding the castle against the Scottish government, and whom the English had undertaken to assist. The Huguenot captain Jean Rybaut of Dieppe, frequently employed in English service; granted an Exchequer annuity of 75 in 1545 and knighted at Newcastle 3 Oct. 1547, but intermittently suspected of double-dealing, and imprisoned in the Tower. The Great Spaniard of Scotland, esteemed to be of 200 tun, at Dieppe, having there aid and succour from time to time, do rob and spoil our English ships, and it is manned with 240 men, as the Scots themselves reported. This chapter discusses the combined operation: Clintons fleet at sea. Patten was one of two judges of the Marshals court attached to the expedition, and his narrative was compiled partly from notes kept by his partner William Cecil.
