Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the fift of Iulie next insuing, sir Iohn a Fen|wike, Leonard Musgraue, and bastard Heron, with diuerse other English capteins, hauing with them nine hundred men of war, entred the Mers, mind|ing to fetch out of the same some bootie, and encoun|tring with the Scots being in number two thousand, after sore and long fight, caused them to leaue their ground and to flie, so that in the chase were taken two hundred Scots,The Scots [...] to flight [...] slaine. and manie slaine, & amongst them were diuerse gentlemen. But sir Rafe a Fenwike, Leonard Musgraue, and the bastard Heron, with thirtie other Englishmen well horssed, followed so farre in the chase, that they were past rescues of their companie, whereof the Scots being aduised, sudden|lie returned, and set on the Englishmen, which oppres|sed with the multitude of their enimies, were soone ouercome, and there was taken sir Rafe a Fenwike, Leonard Musgraue, and six other: and bastard He|ron, with seauen other were slaine. The residue by chance escaped. The other Englishmen with their 200 prisoners returned safelie into England.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 On the seuenth of Iulie, the Englishmen fought with like fortune against the Scots that were ente|red England at the west marches. For in the begin|ning they put the Scots to the worse, and tooke thrée hundred of them prisoners: but afterwards, bicause the Englishmen that had taken those prisoners, withdrew out of the field with the same prisoners, the Scots perceiuing the number of the English|men to be diminished, gaue a new onset on the Eng|lishmen, and them distressed. After this, the Scots sued for a truce, and had it granted to indure till the feast of saint Andrew.The popes [...]bassadour presenteth the [...] with a [...]. This yeare the first of Sep|tember was doctor Thomas Haniball maister of the rolles receiued into London with earles, and bi|shops, and diuerse other nobles and gentlemen, as ambassadors from pope Clement, which brought with him a rose of gold for a token to the king. And on the daie of the natiuitie of our ladie, after a so|lemne masse song by the cardinall of Yorke, the said present was deliuered to the king: which was a trée forged of fine gold, & wrought with branches, leaues, and floures resembling roses. This tree was set in a pot of gold which had three feet of antike fashion. The pot was of measure halfe a pint, in the vppermost rose was a faire saphire loupe persed, the bignesse of an acorne, the trée was of heigth halfe an English yard, and a foot in bredth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This yeare in Iulie the lord Archembald Dou|glas earle of Angus, which had maried the quéene of Scots sister to the king of England, escaped out of France (where he had remained for a season, in ma|ner as a banished man) and came into England to the king, as then being at Gréenewich, and was of him courteouslie receiued. Sir Anthonie Fitz Her|bert one of the Iustices of the common plées,Commissio|ners sent into Ireland to re|forme the countrie. sir Rafe Egerton knight, and doctor Denton deane of Lichfield, being sent in the begining of this yeare in|to Ireland as commissioners, behaued themselues so sagelie, that they reformed diuers wrongs, brought sundrie of the wild Irish by faire means vnto obedi|ence, and made (by the kings authoritie) the earle of Kildare deputie of the land;The earle of Kildare made deputie of Ireland. before whome the great Onele bare the sword. And the lord Piers Butler earle of Ormond, which before was deputie, was now made high treasurer of Ireland. In Septem|ber the said commissioners returned.