shire,
learning the fate of their companions, accepted the offers of pardon,
and threw down their arms. A general indemnity was soon after published
by the protector.[**]

* Stowe, p. 597. Holingshed, p. 1030-34. Strype, vol. ii. p.
174.

** Hayward, p. 297, 298, 299.

But though the insurrections were thus quickly subdued in England,
and no traces of them seemed to remain, they were attended with bad
consequences to the foreign interests of the nation. The forces of the
earl of Warwick, which might have made a great impression on Scotland,
were diverted from that enterprise; and the French general had leisure
to reduce that country to some settlement and composure. He took the
fortress of Broughty, and put the garrison to the sword. He straitened
the English at Haddington; and though Lord Dacres was enabled to throw
relief into the place, and to reenforce the garrison, it was found at
last very chargeable, and even impracticable, to keep possession of that
fortress. The whole country in the neighborhood was laid waste by the
inroads both of the Scots and English, and could afford no supply to the
garrison: the place lay above thirty miles from the borders; so that a
regular army was necessary to escort any provisions thither: and as the
plague had broken out among the troops, they perished daily, and were
reduced to a state of great weakness. For these reasons, orders were
given to dismantle Haddington, and to convey the artillery and garrison
to Berwick; and the earl of Rutland, now created warden of the east
marches, executed the orders.

The king of France also took advantage of the distractions among the
English, and made an attempt to recover Boulogne and that territory
which Henry VIII. had conquered from France, On other pretences, he
assembled an army, and falling suddenly upon the Boulonnois, took the
castles of Sellaque, Blackness, and Ambleteuse, though well supplied
with garrisons, ammunition, and provisions.[*] He endeavored to surprise
Boulenberg, and was repulsed; but the garrison, not thinking the place
tenable after the loss of the other fortresses, destroyed the works, and
retired to Boulogne. The rains, which fell in great abundance during the
autumn, and a pestilential distemper which broke out in the French camp,
deprived Henry of all hopes of success against Boulogne itself; and
he retired to Paris.[**] He left the command of the army to Gaspar de
Coligny, lord of Chatillon, so