Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 And now to the storie. K. Edward remaind at Ber|wike 15 daies,K. Edward fortifieth Berwike. & caused a ditch to be cast about the towne of 80 foot in breadth, & of the like in depth. In the meane time,A scotish frier sent to king Edward. about the beginning of Aprill, the warden and reader of the frier minors of Rockes|borough called Adam Blunt, came vnto him with letters of complaint from king Iohn, for the wrongs doone and offered vnto him and his realme, as well in claiming an vniust superioritie, and constreining him to doo homage by vndue and wrongfull meanes, as also by inuading his townes,The Scotish king renoun|ceth his ho|mage and fe|altie vnto the king of En|gland. slaieng and robbing his subiects: for the which causes he testified by the same letters, that he renounced all such homage and fealtie for him and his subiects, as he, or any of them owght for any lands holden within England. The king hearing the letters red, receiued the resignation of the homage, and commanded his chancellor, that the letter might be registred in perpetuall memorie of the thing.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The earles of Scotland before remembred, being assembled togither with their powers at the castell of Iedworth,The Scots inuade the English borders. entred into England the eighth of A|prill, and with fire and sword did much hurt in the countries as they passed. In Riddesdale they besie|ged the castell of Harbotell by the space of two daies,Harbotell. but when they could not preuaile, they remoued, and passing foorth by the east part of the riuer of Tine, tho|rough Cokesdale, Riddesdale, and Northumberland, vnto Hexham, they did much mischéefe by burning and harrieng the countries. Rich. South. At Hexham they spoi|led the abbeie church, and got a great number of the cleargie, as well moonks, priests, as scholers, and o|thers, whom they thrust into the schoolehouse there, and closing vp the dores, set fire on the schoole, and bur|ned all them to ashes that were within it. It is won|derfull to read, what beastlie crueltie the Scots vsed in that road which they made at that time in two se|uerall parts.The earle of Boghan. For the earle of Boghan, with them of Galloway, entred by Cumberland in like manner as the other did in Riddesdale, burning and murthe|ring all that came in their waie.The crueltie of the Scots. For whereas all those that were of able age and lustie to get awaie, fled, & escaped their hands; the aged & impotent crea|tures, women in childbed, and yoong children that could not shift for themselues, were vnmercifullie slaine, and thrust vpon speares, and shaken vp in the aire, where they yéelded vp their innocent ghosts in most pitifull wise.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Churches were burned, women were forced with|out respect of order, condition or qualitie, as well she maids, widowes and wiues, as nunnes that were reputed in those daies consecrated to God, and when they had beene so abused, manie of them were after also murthered, and cruellie dispatched out of life. At length, they came to the nunrie of Lamelaie, & bur|ned all the buildings there, sauing the church,The nunrie of Lamelaie burnt. and then returned backe into Scotland with all their pillage and booties by Lauercost, an house of moonks, which they likewise spoiled. So that the cruell & bloudie de|solation whereof Lucan speaketh in his second booke of ciuill warres, may aptlie be inferred here, as fit|lie describing the mercilesse murther of all states and sexes without parcialitie vnder the hand of the e|nimie: for saith he,
Nobilitas cum plebe perit,Luc. lib. 2. latéque vagaturEnsis, & à nullo reuocatum est pectore ferrum,Stat cruor in templis, multáque rubentia caedeLubrica saxa madent, nulli sua profuit aetas,Non senis extremum piguit vergentibus annisPraecipitasse diem, non primo in limine vitaeInfantis miseri nascentia rumpere fata.