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28 Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart.
bounties and festivals testify. Having brought all that land into
subjection he returned to Berwick on the octave of the Assumption
l where the homage of the people of Alban 2 was repeated to
my lord the King of England and his son and successor ;
also it
was renewed again by a charter with all the seals of the nobles,
which remains confirmed by a solemn oath made in touching two
pieces of the Lord's cross. But that ceremony of swearing, not
being imbued by the faith of those who performed it, was worthless
to them, as their open acts made manifest in the following
year.
Now something very pleasing to our people took place through
the aid of the Glorious Virgin on the day after the Assumption. 3
After the men of the Cinque Ports had conveyed some knights
and foot-soldiers bound for Gascony, they encountered on the high
sea three hundred vessels bound from Spain to France with much
valuable cargo. Our people, who had but four score vessels,
attacked them and put them all to flight, capturing out of that
fleet eight and twenty ships and three galleys. In one of the
galleys they found sixty score hogsheads of wine. In celebration,
therefore, of that victory accorded them by God, they forwarded
part of the wine to the knights campaigning in Gascony, bringing
the rest to London for consecration, whereof my informant drank
some, a man of truthful conversation and learned in religion.
Events of this kind ought to be plainly described to those who
delight in vanities, and, having no experience of heavenly matters,
lightly esteem intercourse with the higher powers. For few may
be found in our age who deserve to share the sweetness of divine
revelation, not because of God's parsimony, but because of the
sluggishness of the spiritual sense.
Now in this
year
there happened to a certain holy virgin,
long consecrated to the life of an anchorite, a revelation which
ought not to be passed over in silence. In the district of Shrews-
bury, about six miles from the town, there dwelleth that holy
woman, Emma by name, who is accustomed to receive visits from
holy men ; and at the festival of S. Francis *
(which is observed
rather on account of the merit of the, saint than of the Order itself,
whose dress she weareth), on the
vigil of the saint she admitted
two friars of that order to
hospitality. At midnight, the hour
when the friars are accustomed to sing praises
to God, the holy
1 22nd August.
3 1 6th August.
2 /.*. Scotland.
4 1 6th July.