Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Shortlie herevpon the Scots set forward to be|gin EEBO page image 376 the battell, and likewise did the Englishmen, and therewith the archers on both parts began to shoot: the shot of the Scots did little hurt, but the archers of England sore galled the Scots, so that there was an hard battell. They began at nine of the clocke, and continued still in fight till noone. The Scots had sharpe and heauie axes, & gaue with the same great and mightie strokes,The Scots fight with [...]xes. howbeit finallie the English|men by the helpe of God obteined the victorie, al|though they lost manie of their men. There were di|uerse of the nobles of Scotland slaine,The English men obteine the victorie. to the number of seuen earles, beside lords. The king was taken in the field sore wounded, for he fought valiantlie. He was prisoner to an esquier of Northumberland,The king of Scots taken. who as soone as he had taken him, rode out of the field with him, accompanied onelie with eight of his ser|uants, and rested not till he came to his owne castell where he dwelled, being thirtie miles distant from the place of the battell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Hect. Boetius. Ri. Southwell. Fabian. Froissard. There was taken also beside him, the earles of Fife, Sutherland, Wighton, and Menteth, the lord William Douglas, the lord Uescie, the archbishop of S. Andrewes, and another bishop, with sir Thomelin Foukes, and diuerse other men of name. There were slaine of one and other to the number of 15 thousand. This battell was fought beside the citie of Durham at a place called Neuils crosse,Neuils crosse. vpon a saturdaie next after the feast of saint Michaell, in the yeare of our Lord 1346. Of this ouerthrow Christopher Ok|land hath verie commendablie written, saieng,

—haud omine dextro

Iam Scotus intulerat vim Dunelmensibus agris,

Cùm formidandum saeuus bellum instruit Anglus,In Angl. praelijs sub Edward [...] 3.

Aggreditúrque hostem violantem foedera sacra.

Nominis incerti Scoticae plebs obuia gentis

Sternitur, & tristi gladio cadit impia turba,

Frustrà obluctantur Scotiae comitésque ducésque,

Quorum pars iacet occumbens; pars caetera capta

Captiuum corpus dedit vincentibus, auro

Et pacto pretio redimendum, bellicus vtmos

Postulat. At Dauid Scotiae rex captus ad vrbem

Londinum fidei pendens dignissima fractae

Supplicia, adductus celebri concluditur arce.

Exiguus numerus volucri pede fisus equorum

Effugit in patriam, testis certissimus Anglos

Deuicissesuos, & tristia funera narrant.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 ¶ He that will sée more of this battell, may find the same also set foorth in the Scotish historie,Sée in Scot|land. as their writers haue written thereof. And for somuch as by the circumstances of their writings, it should séeme they kept the remembrance of the same battell per|fectlie registred, we haue in this place onelie shewed what other writers haue recorded of that matter, and left that which the Scotish chronicles write, to be seene in the life of king Dauid, without much abridg|ing therof. The Englishmen after this victorie thus obteined, Hector Boet. Countries of Scotlãd sub|dued by the Englishmen. Froissard. tooke the castels of Roxburgh and Hermi|tage, and also without any resistance subdued the countries of Anandale, Galloway, Mers, Tiui|dale, and Ethrike forrest, extending their marches foorth at that time vnto Cokburnes Peth, and Sow|tray hedge, and after vnto Trarlinlips, and crosse Caue.