Compare 1587 edition: 1 By the place where king Robert was thus en|camped there runneth a greate Brooke or water called Bannockeſborne,Bannockſ|borne. ſo named of Ote cakes called Bannockes, which were vſed to be made commonly at the Mylnes ſtanding on the banks of the ſame water.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 It falleth into the Forth right famous after|wardes by reaſon of this battaile foughten neare to the ſame.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 When both the armies were approched with|in a myle togither, King Edwarde ſent an eight hundred horſemen by a ſecret way, vnto the Ca|ſtell of Striueling, to giue notice to ſir Philip Mowbray the Captain, that he was come with his armie to ſuccour him. King Robert beeing aduertiſed of their gate, & beholding them whiche way they tooke,The fight of Thomas Ran|dall with fiue hundred Scot|tiſh men in his companie agaynſt .viii. hundred Eng|liſhe men. he ſent Thomas Randall with fiue hundred Scottiſh horſmen to ſaue the coun|trey from ſpoyle, who with ſingular manhoode encountering with thoſe Engliſh men in ſight of both y^e armies, there enſued a cruel fight betwixt them for ſo ſmall a number, continuing a long ſpace with vncertaine victorie.