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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The spoile was not rich sure, but of white bread, o|ten cakes, and Scotish ale indifferent good store, and soone bestowed among my lords soldiors; for swords, bucklers, pikes, pots, pans, yarne, linnen, hempe, and heaps of such baggage, which the countrie peo|ple there about had brought into that pile, to haue it in more suretie, the soldiors would scarse vouchsafe to stoope and take the same vp.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The castell of Dunglas o|uerthrowneIn the meane time the lord protector appointed the house to be ouerthrowne, which by the capteine of the pioners was doone, though with some trauell, by reason the walles were so thicke, and the foundation so déepe, and thereto set vpon so craggie a plot. Tues|daie the sixt of September, the armie dislodged and marched forward. In the waie as they should go, a mile and an halfe from Dunglas northward were two piles or holds,Thornton. Anderwike. Thornton & Anderwike, set both on craggie foundations, & diuided a stones cast a sun|der by a déepe gut, wherein ran a little riuer. Thorn|ton belonged to the lord Hume, and was kept by one Thom Trotter,Thom Trotter. who vpon summons giuen him to render the house, lockt vp a sixteene poore soules like the soldiors of Dunglas fast within the house, tooke the keies with him, commanding them to defend the place till his returne, which should be on the mor|row, wish munition and releefe: and this doone, he and his prickers prickt (as saith maister Patten) quite their waies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The lord of Hambleton.Anderwike perteined to the lord of Hambleton, and was kept by his son and heire, whome of custome they call the master of Hambleton, & eight more gen|tlemen for the most part, as was reported. The lord protector at his comming nigh, sent vnto both these places, which vpon summons refusing to render, were streight assailed; Thornton by batterie of foure great péeces of ordinance, and certeine of sir Peter Mewtas hackbutters, and Anderwike by a sort of the same hackbutters, who so well bestirred them, that where these keepers had rammed vp their outer doores, cloied and stopt their staires within, and kept themselues for defense of their house about the bat|tlements, the hackbutters got in,The pile of Anderwike woone. and fired them vn|derneath, whereby being greatlie troubled with smoke, they cried for mercie, which the lord protector meant to grant them; but yer the messenger came, the hackbutters were got vp to them, & killed eight of them aloft: one leapt ouer the walles, and run|ning more than a furlong, was after slaine without in a water.

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