Compare 1577 edition: 1 Archembald earle Dowglas sore displeased in his mind for this ouerthrow, procured a commission to inuade England, and that to his cost, as ye may like|wise read in the Scotish histories. For at a place cal|led Homildon,Scots van|quished at Homildon. they were so fiercelie assailed by the Englishmen, vnder the leading of the lord Persie, surnamed Henrie Hotspur, and George earle of March, that with violence of the English shot they were quite vanquished and put to flight, on the Rood daie in haruest, with a great slaughter made by the Englishmen. We know that the Scotish writers note this battell to haue chanced in the yeare 1403. But we following Tho. Walsingham in this place, and other English writers, for the accompt of times, haue thought good to place it in this yeare 1402, as in the same writers we find it. There were slaine of men of estimation, sir Iohn Swinton,The number slaine. sir Adam Gordon, sir Iohn Leuiston, sir Alexander Ramsie of Dalehousie, and three and twentie knights, besides ten thousand of the commons: and of prisoners a|mong other were these, Mordacke earle of Fife,Prisoners taken. son to the gouernour Archembald earle Dowglas, which in the fight lost one of his eies, Thomas erle of Mur|rey, Robert earle of Angus, and (as some writers haue) the earles of Atholl & Menteith, with fiue hun|dred other of meaner degrées. After this, the lord Persie, hauing bestowed the prisoners in suer kée|ping, entered Tiuidale, wasting and destroieng the whole countrie,The castell of Cocklawes besieged by y^e lord Persie. and then besieged the castell of Coc|klawes, whereof was capteine one sir Iohn Gren|low, who compounded with the Englishmen, that if the castell were not succoured within three moneths, then he would deliuer it into their hands.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The first two moneths passed, and no likelihood of rescue appeared; but yer the third moneth was expi|red, EEBO page image 521 the Englishmen being sent for to go with the king into Wales, raised their siege and departed, lea|uing the noble men prisoners with the earle of Nor|thumberland, and with his sonne the lord Persie, to keepe them to the kings vse. In this meane while, such as misliked with the doctrine and ceremonies then vsed in the church,The profes|sors of Wic| [...]lifs doctrine. ceassed not to vtter their con|sciences, though in secret, to those in whome they had affiance. But as in the like cases it commonlie hap|neth, they were bewraied by some that were thought chieflie to fauour their cause, as by sir Lewes Clif|ford knight, who hauing leaned to the doctrine a long time, did now (as Thomas Walsingham writeth) dis|close all that he knew vnto the archbishop of Can|turburie, to shew himselfe as it were to haue erred rather of simplenesse and ignorance, than of froward|nesse or stubborne malice. The names of such as taught the articles and conclusions mainteined by those which then they called Lollards or heretikes, the said sir Lewes Clifford gaue in writing to the said archbishop.Sir Lewes Clifford be|wraieth his fellowes. Edmund Mortimer earle of March, pri|soner with Owen Glendouer, whether for irkesom|nesse of cruell captiuitie, or feare of death, or for what other cause, it is vncerteine, agréed to take part with Owen,The earle of March mari|eth the daugh|ter of Owen Glendouer. against the king of England, and tooke to wife the daughter of the said Owen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Strange wonders happened (as men reported) at the natiuitie of this man, for the same night he was borne, all his fathers horsses in the stable were found to stand in bloud vp to the bellies. The morow after the feast of saint Michaell, a parlement began at Westminster, Anno Reg. 4. A parlement. which continued the space of seauen weekes, in the same was a tenth and a halfe granted by the cleargie, and a fiftéenth by the communaltie. Moreouer, the commons in this parlement besought the king to haue the person of George earle of March a Scotishman,George earle of March re|commended to the king by parlement. recommended to his maiestie, for that the same earle shewed himselfe faithfull to the king & his realme. ¶ There was also a statute made, that the friers beggers should not receiue any into their order, vnder the age of fourteene yeares. In this fourth yeare of king Henries reigne, ambassadors were sent ouer into Britaine,Ambassadors. to bring from thence the duches of Britaine, the ladie Iane de Nauarre, the widow of Iohn de Montford, late duke of Bri|taine, surnamed the conqueror, with whom by pro|curators the king had contracted matrimonie. In the beginning of Februarie, those that were sent re|turned with hir in safetie, but not without tasting the bitter stormes of the wind and weather, that tossed them sore to and fro, before they could get to land. The king met hir at Winchester, where the seuenth of Februarie, the marriage was solemnized betwixt them.