The English forces built artillery fortifications and were able to withstand an assault by the besieging French and Scots troops supported by heavy cannon in July 1548.

Although the siege was scaled down after this unsuccessful attempt, the English garrison abandoned the town on 19 September 1549, after attrition by Scottish raids at night, sickness, and changing political circumstance.

[4] An inventory of food stored in Haddington at this time includes "oxen alive", bacon, cereal and peas, claret wine, sack, and Malmsey.

Although the site had obvious drawbacks, overlooked by the ridge of the nearby Garleton Hills and four miles from the sea, the finished ramparts were much admired.

[8] Somerset even showed Odet de Selve the plan, a large rectangle by the river Tyne, and said it was larger than the fortified area of Calais, and would hold 4,000 troops.

The French ambassador was told that the tollbooth, a tall and solid stone structure, had been filled with earth to form a gun platform called a cavalier.

[11] English pioneers digging the town ditch found curious ancient coins on 7 June which Grey of Wilton sent to Somerset for their strangeness.

[13] He sent 100 Spanish soldiers with their commander Pedro de Negro to join the garrison at the end of June 1548, but they encountered the enemy and rode to safety at Berwick.

[15] English prisoners taken at Tuesday's Chase included Nicholas Gaynesford, who had served as a lieutenant of Lord Grey's own men at arms at Pinkie.

On 20 July 1548, a justiciary court held St Mary's Abbey ordered Archibald Hamilton of Raploch and the bailies of Lesmahagow to punish tenants in that barony for not joining the force besieging the town.

On 5 July 1548 Mary of Guise held a council at nearby Elvingston or "Herdmandston", and the next day went to Clerkington, where the French and Italians were making a fortified camp and had demolished a bridge over the River Tyne.

Rather than return to Linton through enemy lines, they slaughtered their own horses outside the town gates, and after the French and Scottish had withdrawn, Pedro de Negro buried them in three pits.

On the other side of the country, Mary, Queen of Scots embarked with Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon at Dumbarton Castle for France.

[27] Thomas Palmer and Holcroft discovered that German gunners working with the Scots were building a platform for artillery in the church tower.

"[38]The English withdrew because they were out of supplies, many of their men had died from disease or during the Scottish night raids, and more French re-inforcements had arrived under Paul de Thermes.

The English (and their mercenary forces, which included German and Spanish professional soldiers) evacuated Haddington on 19 September 1549, travelling overland to Berwick upon Tweed.

Fulwell describes various events of the siege of Haddington, and says that the cannon that nearly injured Mary of Guise at the nunnery was called "roaring meg".