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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C.

CHAPTER XXXV
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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.


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