Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At the same time two of the English ships arri|ued there with victuals, the which being bestowed a|mongst the souldiors, releeued them greatlie of their hunger. Amongest other the Welshmen had two tunnes of wine deliuered to them for their share, the which they tasted so gréedilie, Abington. A fraie be|twixt the Welsh and Englishmen. that ouercome there|with they fell to quarrelling with the Englishmen, and begun a fraie, in the which they slue eightéene, and hurt diuerse. The English horssemen herewith being kindled with displeasure, got them to armor, and setting vpon the Welshmen, slue of them to the number of fourescore, and put the other to flight: wherevpon the next morning it was said that the Welshmen vpon wrath conceiued hereof meant to depart to the Scots:The English|men stand in doubt of the Welshmen. but yet when the campe remoo|ued, they followed the armie though a farre off, and a|part by themselues, insomuch that manie doubted least if the Englishmen had chanced to haue had the worsse at the Scotishmens hands, they would haue ioined with them against the Englishmen. This bloo|die broile sprang of intemperancie, and surfetting drunkennesse, which is worthie to be thus disclaimed,

– animae lethum, & vitiorum

Nutrix ac scelerum, quid non mortalia cogis

Pectora? Quid per te non audent? Iurgia, lites,

Praelia dira moves, & gaudes sanguine fuso,

Sordidior quae res, quae bellua vilior? &c.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king now hearing that the Scots were com|ming towards him, raised his [...]eld, N. Triuet. and went foorth to méet them, lodging the next [...] night in a faire plaine. In the morning verie earlie, a great alarme was raised, so that euerie man got him to armour, supposing the Scots to be at hand. The horsse appoin|ted for the kings saddle that day, as the king should haue got vpon him, frighted with some noise, started aside, and threw the king downe with such violence, that he brake two of his ribbes, as the report went. Other write, that his horsse trod on him in the night, as he and his people rested them, kéeping their hors|ses still bridled, to be readie the sooner vpon occasion of any necessitie: but howsoeuer he came by his hurt, he staied not to passe forward in his purposed iournie, but mounting vpon an other horsse, went foorth with his armie till he came to a place called Foukirke,The battell of Foukirke. where both the armies of England and Scotland met and fought.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Scots were diuided in foure schiltrons, as they termed them, or as we may saie, round battels, Abington. The order of the Scotish battels. in forme of a circle, in the which stood their people that carried long staues or speares, which they crossed iointlie togither one within another, betwixt which schiltrons or round batels were certeine spaces left, the which were filled with their archers and bowmen, and behind all these were their horssemen placed. They had chosen a strong ground, somewhat sideling on the side of a hill. The earles Marshall, Hereford,The earles Marshall, He|reford, and Lincolne led the fore ward. & Lincolne, which led the fore ward of the English|men, at the first made directlie towards the Scots, but they were staied, by reason they found a marish, or an euill fauoured mosse betwixt their enimies and them, so that they were constreined to fetch a compasse towards the west side of the field. The bi|shop of Durham ruling in the second battell of the Englishmen,The bishop of Durham led the second ward. consisting of six and thirtie standards or banners, knowing the let of that mosse or marish to|ward the east side, hasted foorth to be the first that should giue the onset: but yet when they approched néere to the enimies, the bishop commanded his peo|ple to staie till the third battell, which the king led, might approach. But that valiant knight the lord Rafe Basset of Draiton said to him: My lord bishop,The lord Basset of Draitons words to the bishop of Durham. you may go and say masse, which better becommeth you, than to teach vs what we haue to doo, for we will doo that which belongeth to the order and custome of warre.