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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The English armie incamped that night at a place called Seaton, seuen miles from Lith, where they burnt the castell, and destroied the orchards and gardens with the more despite, for that the lord Sea|ton owner of the place,The lord Seaton. was the chiefe laborer to helpe the lord cardinall out of prison. The same daie was Haddington burnt,Haddington burnt. with a great nunrie and house of friers there. The next night they incamped beside Dunbar, where they had an alarum giuen them, but in the morning they burnt the towne of Dunbar,Dunbar burnt. and marched foorth, though somewhat staid by the waie, by reason of the mist and fog, which was verie thicke, continuing all the forenoone, and bicause also they vnderstood how the lords of Seton & Hume with the lard of Bouclough, and others, had assem|bled a power of men of warre, and were minded to impeach their passage at a streict named the Pease.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But after that the mist brake vp, which was about two of the clocke in the afternoone, the Englishmen came forward, and passed the same streict without a|nie resistance. For the Scotish lords perceiuing that they were not of power sufficient to incounter with the Englishmen, minded not to put their people in their danger, but wiselie retired, suffering the Eng|lishmen to passe at their pleasure, who that night lodged at Ranton, eight miles distant from our bor|ders, where hauing ouerthrowne a pile which stood there, they dislodged the next morrow, and the same daie being the eightéenth of Maie, they entered into Berwicke:The end of the voiage. so ending their voiage with great ioie and gladnesse, not hauing lost past fortie persons in all this iournie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The names of the chiefe townes, castels, and pla|ces burned in this voiage,Townes burnt in the same voiage. were these: the burow and towne of Edenburgh, with the abbeie called ho|lie Rood house, and the kings palace adioining to the same. The towne of Lith burnt, and the hauen and pire destroied, the castle and village of Cragmiller, the abbeie of Newbottle, part of Muskelburow towne, with the chappell of our ladie of Lauret, Pre|ston towne and the castell, Seton castell, Hading|ton towne, with the friers and nunrie, a castell of O|liuer Sinclers, the towne of Dunbar, Lanreston with the grange, Drilaw, Wester crag, Enderligh, the pile, and the towne, Broughton, Thester fields, Crawnend, Dudi [...]ton, Stan house, the Ficket, Be|uerton, Tranent, Shenston, Markle, Trapren, Kirk|land hill, Hatherwike, Belton, east Barnes, Bow|land, Butterden, Quickewood, Blackeburne, Ran|ton, Bildie and the Tower, Kinkorne, saint Mi|nees, the quéenes ferrie, part of Petin Waines, and the burnt Iland, were burned by the fleet on the sea.

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