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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herewith they hasted foorth on that side to charge the first schiltron of the Scots, and the earles with their battell on the otherside, and euen vpon the first brunt the Scotish horssemen fled,The Scotish horssemen flée. a few onelie excep|ted, which staied to kéepe the footmen in order. And a|mongst other was the brother of the lord steward of Scotland, who as he was about to set in order the bowmen of Selkirke, by chance was vnhorssed, and slaine there amongst the same bowmen, and manie a tall mans bodie with him.Their ar|chers slaine. The Scotish archers thus being slaine, the Englishmen assailed the spearemen;These Sco|tish spearemen were of Gal|lowai [...] as Eueriden saith. but keeping themselues close togither, and standing at defense with their speares like a thicke wood, they kept out the English horssemen for a while, & fought manfullie, though they were sore beaten with shot of EEBO page image 308 arrowes by the English archers on [...] & so at length galled with shot; and assailed by the horssemen on ech side, they begun to disorder and [...] from one side to another, and herewi [...]h the horssem [...] br [...]ke in amongst them, and so they were slaine and beaten downe in maner all the whole number of them.