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| County of the Borough} | The Earl of Surrey came to Berwick | |||||
| and Town of }Continued | with the Army, in order to recruit | |||||
| Berwick upon Tweed } | it after the Battle of Flodden Field | |||||
| in 1513 | ||||||
| In 1525 the commissioners between | ||||||
| Henry the 8th and James the 5th of Scotland | ||||||
| met at Berwick where they concluded | ||||||
| a treaty for a three years peace and another signed 1533. The Duke of Norfolk | ||||||
| marched an army into Berwick in 1542 & burnt Kelso. | ||||||
| In 1547 the "Protector" with 18,000 men 34 Ships & 34 Transport Ships arrived at Berwick | ||||||
| From this date the importance of Berwick as a fortification gradually | ||||||
| declined, and altho partly connected with the Wars of "The Roses" | ||||||
| and the rebellions of 1715 & 1745 Still its glory departed in | ||||||
| 1547 the Union of the two Kingdoms having done away | ||||||
| with the necessity of maintaining it in a high state of | ||||||
| defence. | ||||||
| Berwick is distant 23 miles from Kelso | ||||||
| 58 from Edinburgh, & 66 from Newcastle. It occupies | ||||||
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Transcribed by PF and PT
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