The gates were soon beaten down, (for little or no resistance was made,) and the English first pillaged, and then set fire to the city.

The regent and cardinal were not prepared to oppose so great a force, and they fled to Stirling.
Hertford marched eastward; and being joined by a new body under Evers, warden of the east marches, he laid waste the whole country, burned and destroyed Haddington and Dunbar, then retreated into England; having lost only forty men in the whole expedition.

The earl of Arran collected some forces; but finding that the English were already departed, he turned them against Lenox, who was justly suspected of a correspondence with the enemy.

That nobleman, after making some resistance, was obliged to fly into England, where Henry settled a pension on him, and even gave him his niece, lady Margaret Douglas, in marriage.

In return, Lenox stipulated conditions, by which, had he been able to execute them, he must have reduced his country to total servitude.[***] * Herbert.