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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
Snippet: 1077 of 1201 (1587, Volume 6, p. 958)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Amongst others that were taken,Scotish lords taken at Solem Mosse. we find these men of name, the earle of Castill and Glencarne, the lord Maxwell admerall of Scotland, and warden of the west marches, the lord Flenung, the lord Su|merwell, the lord Oliphant, the lord Greie, sir Oli|uer Sincler the kings minson, Iohn Ro [...]o lord of Gragie, Robert Erskin son to the lord Erskin, Carre lard of Bredon, the lord Maxwelles two bre|thren, Iohn Lesl [...]ie bastard son to the earle of Ro|thus, George Hume lard of H [...]mitton, Iohn Maie|land lard of Wike castell, Iames Pringell, Iames Sincler brother to Oliuer Sincler, Iohn Carmell capteine of Craiforth, Patrike Hebborne esquire, Iohn Seton esquire son in law to the lord Erskin, William Seton esquire, Iohn Steward cousin to the king, Iohn Morrowe esquire, Henrie Drou|mont esquire, Iames Mitton esquire, Iohn Cor|murth esquire capteine of Gainsforth, Iames Mit|ton esquire, and other esquiers and gentlemen (be|side the earles and lords before mentioned) to the number of two hundred and aboue,The number of prisoners and [...] taken. and more than eight hundred other persons of meaner calling; so that some one Englishman, yea some women had thrée or foure prisoners. They tooke also foure and twentie peeces of ordinance, foure carts laden with speares, and ten pauilions, with other things of price; so that this might well be said to be the handie worke of God, and the verse of the psalme verified:

Contemplans dixi, Haec est mutatio dextrae
Numinis excelsi mortalia cuncta gubernans.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king of Scots tooke such griefe and inward thought for his ouerthrow,The death of the king of Scotland. and also for the murther of an English herald that was slaine at Dunbar, by one Léech an Englishman (the which for the re|bellion in Lincolnshire was fled into Scotland) that he fell into a hot ague, and thereof died, although ma|nie reported that he was at the bickering, and recei|ued there his deaths wound, and fled there with into Scotland. But of his death, and of the birth of his daughter ye may see more in the historie of Scot|land.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 20 of 24:  Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth.
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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Of these prisoners before named,

Foure and twentie hath Hall.

Scots prisoners brought to London.

one and twen|tie of them were brought to London, and on the nine|téenth of December entred into the citie by Bishops gate, and so were conueied to the tower, where they remained for the space of two daies: and vpon saint Thomas daie the apostle, being the one and twentith of December, they were conueied to Westminster, sir Iohn Gage constable of the tower riding before them, and the lieutenant of the same tower riding behind them. They rode two and two togither, and eight of them being earls and lords, had new gowns of blacke damaske furred with blacke conie, cotes of blacke veluet, and doublets of sattin, with shirts and other apparell bought new for them at the kings charges.

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