ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the Marian navies two misadventures in Scotland, though for the first of them the story can only be completed from a secondary source. Sir John Cleres expedition ended in disaster after lingering too long in sacking Kirkwall. The repulse by outraged Orcadians was a painful humiliation. The Earl of Sussex's attempt to counter Scotch incursions into Ulster was not so disastrous in human terms, but it failed of its main purpose, defeated by the weather and waters of the Western Isles. The New Bark and six other warships were detached from Clintons command and sent under Sir Thomas Cotton to Ireland, where the Lord Deputy wanted assistance against invaders from the Western Isles. An extract from the Irish Council register is possible only because the MS was already in private hands when most of Ireland's public records were destroyed in 1922.
