Compare 1577 edition: 1 The lord protector and the councell sitting in con|sultation, the capteines and officers prouiding their b [...]nds, store of vittels, and furniture of weapons, for furtherance whereof our vessels of munition and vittels were here alreadie come to the shore. The Scots continued their brauerie on the hill, the which the Englishmen not being so well able to beare, made out a band of light horssemen, and a troope of demilances to backe them: the Englishmen and strangers that serued among them, got vp aloft on the hill, and thereby of euen ground with the enimie rode streight toward them with good spéed and order, whom at the first the Scots did boldlie countenance and abide: but after, when they perceiued that our men would néeds come forward, they began to pricke, and would faine haue béene gone, yer they had told their errand.The Scots [...]ssemen discomfited and put to flight But the Englishmen hasted so spéedilie after, that euen streight they were at their elbowes, and did so stoutlie then bestirre them, that what in the onset at the first, and after in the chase, which lasted a thrée miles welnie to as far as the fur|thest of their campe on the south side, they had killed of the Scots within a thrée houres, aboue the num|ber of thirtéene hundred,Scots slaine. Prisoners taken. and taken the maister of Hume, the lords Humes sonne and heire, two priests and six gentlemen, whereof one by sir Iaques Gra|nado, and all vpon the highest and welaéere nighest of the hill toward the Scots, within the full sight of their whole campe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the English part one Spanish haquebutter hurt,Englishmen [...]. and taken sir Rafe Bulmer knight, Thomas Gomer marshall of Berwike, and Robert Crouch, all capteins of seuerall bands of the English light horssemen, and men of right good courage and appro|ued seruice, & at this time distressed by their owne too much forwardnesse, and not by the enimies force. To conclude, of fiftéene hundred horssemen for skir|mish, and fiue hundred footmen to lie close in am|bush, and to be readie at néed, which came that mor|ning out of their campe, there returned not home a|boue seuen hundred, and diuerse of those sore hurt, and among other, the lord Hume himselfeThe lord Hume hurt with a fall in the chase. for hast in the flight, had a fall from his horsse, and burst the ca|nell bone of his necke, that he was faine to be caried streight to Edenborough, and finallie there departed this life of that hurt. So that it is true which C. O. saith, that in this skirmish manie a good rider was dismounted, their horsses with emptie saddles and loose bridles running vp hill and downe dale, as if they had beene starke mad, and to conclude (saith he)

—equi lapsurus inhaesit

Tergo alius summo tellurem vertice pulsans.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Then after this, the lord protector, and the earle of Warwike, and other of the councell, with a small gard, mounting vp the hill where the slaughter had beene made, about halfe a mile southeast from the Scotish campe, tooke full view therof, the plot where they laie, so chosen for strength, as in all their coun|trie (some thought) not a better, saue on the south by a great marish, & on the north by the Forth, which side they fensed with two field péeces, and certeine haque|butters a crooke, lieng vnder a turffe wall, Eden|borough on the west at their backes, and eastward betwéene the Englishmen and them stronglie defen|ded by the course of a riuer called Eske, running north into the Forth, which as it was not verie deepe of water, so were the bankes of it so high and stéepe, as a small sort of resistants might haue beene able to kéepe downe a great number of commers vp. About a twelue score from the Forth, ouer the same riuer, is there a stone bridge, which they did kéepe al|so well garded with ordinance.