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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The lord Edward Clinton admerall of the fl [...]et sir William Woodhouse knight his viceadmerall.The chie [...]|teins that commanded in the nauie by sea were these. There were in the armie of great ordinance fifteene peeces, and of carriages nine hundred carts, beside manie wagons, whereof the commissarie generall was George Ferrers. As soone as the armie by land was in a readinesse, and set forward to come to Ber|wike at a daie appointed, the nauie likewise tooke the sea, and by the helpe of Gods good guiding had so prosperous speed in their passage, that they arriued at Berwicke in time conuenient, whither vpon the thirtith of August being tuesdaie, the lord protector came, and laie in the castell with sir Nicholas Strel|leie knight, capteine there. The next daie com|mandement was giuen that euerie man should pro|uide himselfe for foure daies vittels to be caried foorth with them in carts.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On thursdaie the first of September the lord pro|tector, not with manie more than with his owne band of horssemen, rode to a towne standing on the sea coast, a six miles from Berwike within Scotland called Aimouth,The lord pro|tector causeth Aimouth ri|uer to be soun|ded. whereat there runneth a riuer into the sea, which he caused to be sounded, and finding the same well able to serue for an hauen, caused af|terwards a fortresse to be raised there, appointing Thomas Gower, that was marshall of Berwike, to be capteine thereof. On fridaie, all sauing the councell departed the towne of Berwike, and in|camped a two flight shoots off, by the sea side, toward Scotland. And the same daie the lord Clinton with his fléet tooke the seas from Berwike, to the end that in case the wind should not serue them to kéep [...] course with the armie by land; yet were it but with the driuing of tides, they might vpon anie néed of munition or vittels be still at hand, or not long from them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The same daie the earle of Warwike,Sir Rafe Sadler trea|suror of the English ar|mie. and sir Rafe Sadler treasuror of the armie, came to Ber|wike from Newcastell, where they had staid till then, for the full dispatch of the rest of the armie, and the next daie the earle of Warwike incamped in field with the armie.A proclama|tion. On which daie a proclamation with sound of trumpet was made by an herald in thrée se|uerall places of the campe, signifieng the cause of the comming of the kings armie at that present into Scotland, which in effect was, to aduertise all the Scotish nation, that their comming was not to de|priue them of their liberties, but to aduance the mar|riage alreadie concluded and agréed vpon betwixt the kings maiestie of England and their quéene, and no hostilitie ment to such as should shew themselues furtherers thereof. On the fourth of September being sundaie, the lord protector came from out of the towne, and the armie raised, and marched that daie a six miles, and camped by a village called Ro|stan in the baronrie of Boukendall.

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