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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Some saie there died of the Scots that daie (be|ing the two & twentith of Iulie, Nic. Triuet. and the feast of Ma|rie Magdalene) aboue twentie thousand. Other write that there were slaine at the least to the number of 15 thousand. Matth. West. saith fourtie thousand. Polydo [...]. N. Triuet. The Scotish writers alledge that this battell was lost by trea [...]on of the coming and other, as in the Scotish his [...]orie ye may more plainlie per|ceiue, with more [...]ter touching the same battell: after this was the towne of saint Andrews destroi|ed,The towns of S. Andrews. no man being within to make resistance. And from thence the English armie came through Sel|kirke forrest vnto the castell of Aire, which they found [...]:The castell of Aire. and after they came by the towne of Annan, and tooke the castell of Lochmaben, and so returned into England by the west marches, and came to Carleill.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Abington. Irish lords. The Ile of Araine.About the same time certeine Irish lords, and a|mongst other as chéefe, one Thomas Biset landed in the Ile of Araine, the inhabitants whereof yéelded themselues vnto the same Thomas, who (as was iud|ged) meant to haue aided the Scots: but now hea|ring of the victorie which king Edward had gotten in a pight field, he sent vnto him to giue him to vn|derstand that he was come in his aid, & had woon the said Ile of Araine,Thomas Bi|set requireth the Ile of Araine. and therfore besought him that it might please him to grant it vnto him and his heires for euer. Which request the king granted: whereof when the earles Marshall and Hereford were aduer|tised,The euill opi|nion of the earles Mar|shall & Here|ford towards the king. they thought this a rash part of the king, consi|dering that he had promised to doo nothing anew without their consents and counsell.

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