On 25 November 1542 he left Edinburgh with Somerset Herald , Thomas Trahern , accompanied by the Scottish Dingwall Pursuivant . Two miles from Dunbar Somerset was murdered . Ray and Dingwall escaped . ( The murderers were said to be two English veterans of the Pilgrimage of Grace , William Leche and John Prestman ) In September 1543 he took Ralph 's messages to Regent Arran at Stirling Castle during the coronation of Mary , Queen of Scots . The war of the Rough Wooing began between England and Scotland with Henry Ray 's declaration in Edinburgh on 20 December 1543 . Ray was rewarded £ 12 for delivering letters in Edinburgh in December 1551 , £ 12 in January 1553 and £ 15 in February . Later , Ray was detained by French troops at Dunbar on 4 April 1560 when he was bringing letters from Mary of Guise declining to end the Siege of Leith . He was sometimes called Harry Berwick . Gilbert Dethick wrote to him on 3 April 1565 to buy some salmon for a St George 's Day feast , and addressed him as " Harry Ree , alias Barwicke Pursuivant at Armes "
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
Berwick Pursuivant