g enemy; and from the field of battle to Edinburgh, for the
space of five miles, the whole ground was strowed with dead bodies. The
priests, above all, and the monks, received no quarter; and the
English made sport of slaughtering men who, from their extreme zeal
and animosity, had engaged in an enterprise so ill befitting their
profession. Few victories have been more decisive, or gained with
smaller loss to the conquerors. There fell not two hundred of the
English; and according to the most moderate computation, there perished
above ten thousand of the Scots. About fifteen hundred were taken
prisoners. This action was called the battle of Pinkey, from a
nobleman's seat of that name in the neighborhood.

The queen dowager and Arran fled to Stirling, and were scarcely able
to collect such a body of forces as could check the incursions of small
parties of the English. About the same time, the earl of Lenox and Lord
Wharton entered the west marches, at the head of five thousand men; and
after taking and plundering Annan, they spread devastation over all
the neighboring counties.[*] Had Somerset prosecuted his advantages, he
might have imposed what terms he pleased on the Scottish nation: but he
was impatient to return to England, where, he heard, some counsellors,
and even his own brother, the admiral, were carrying on cabals against
his authority. Having taking the castles of Hume, Dunglass, Eymouth,
Fastcastle, Roxborough, and some other small places, and having
received the submission of some counties on the borders, he retired
from Scotland. The fleet, besides destroying all the shipping along the
coast, took Broughty, in the Frith of Tay; and having fortified it,
they there left a garrison. Arran desired leave to send commissioners
in order to treat of a peace; and Somerset, having appointed Berwick for
the place of conference, left Warwick with full powers to negotiate: but
no commissioners from Scotland ever appeared. The overture of the Scots
was an artifice, to gain time till succors should arrive from France.

* Holingshed, p. 992.

The protector, on his arrival in England, summoned a parliament: and
being somewhat elated with his success against the Scots, he procured
from his nephew a patent, appointing him to sit on the throne, upon
a stool or bench at the right hand of the king, and to enjoy the same
honors and privileges that had usually been possessed by any prince of
the blood, or uncle of the king