Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The earle of Surrie conceiued no small hope of victorie in this chearefull readinesse of his souldi|ors,The ordering of the Eng|lish armie. and therevpon with all spéed (as the occasion then mooued him at that instant) diuided his armie into thrée battels, or rather foure: vnto the vant-gard whereof, the lord Howard was capteine, his brother sir Edmund Howard was ioined as a wing; the earle himselfe led the midle-ward, and the rere-ward was guided by sir Edward Stanleie, afterwards created lord Mounteagle. The lord Dacres with a number of horssemen was set apart by himselfe to succor where need should séeme to appeare. The ordi|nance was placed in the front of these battels, & in places betwéene, as was thought expedient. In this order, forward they made with manlie courages to|wards the Scots a good marching pase.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time, king Iames beholding all the demeanor of the Englishmen, from the heigth of the hill,The Scotish kings thought at the view of the English armie. thought with himselfe, that there was offered him that daie a goodlie occasion of victorie, if he might come to fight with the enimies at such aduan|tage of place and number. And therfore, being hast|ned forward through the strenable force of destinie, or rather Gods ordinance, he commanded his stand|ards to be raised and spred, and euerie man to resort to his appointed place, that they might foorthwith in|counter the enimies, that presumed thus to séeke bat|tell. And héerewith turning him to the lords and cap|teins that stood about him, he spake vnto them ma|nie comfortable words touching the occasion offered them at that present, to gaine both a famous victo|rie, and to reuenge so manifold iniuries and displea|sures, as they had susteined diuerse waies foorth at the Englishmens hands.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 He had scarse made an end of his tale, but the sol|diers with great noise and clamor cried; Forward, Upon them; shaking their weapons in signe of an earnest desire they had (as then they shewed) to buc|kle with the Englishmen. Wherevpon, without de|laie, king Iames putting his horsse from him,King Iames and all the rest alight from horssebacke. all o|ther as well nobles as meane men did the like, that the danger being equall, as well to the greatest as to the meanest, and all hope of succour taken awaie, which was to be looked for by flight, they might be the more willing to shew their manhood, sith their safe|gard onelie rested in the edges and points of their weapons.The order of the Scotish hoast. Then was the whole armie diuided into fiue wards or regiments, to this intent, that the bat|tell wherein the king himselfe stood with his standard, might be inclosed as it were with two wings, on ei|ther side one. In the right wing, the earles of Hunt|leie, Crawford, and Montrosse, were placed as cheefe leaders thereof; and in the left were the earles of Lenox, and Argile, with the lord Hume, lord cham|berleine of Scotland, being men of great skill in warlike affaires, as was reported.