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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Ordinance plãted against the enimie.In the night of this daie, the dukes grace ap|pointed, that earlie in the next morning part of the ordinance should be planted in the lane (wherof men|tion before is made) vnder the turfe of the wall, next to their campe, and some also to be set vpon the hill nie to Undreske church afore remembred: and this to the intent we should with our shot cause them ei|ther wholie to remooue their campe, or else much to annoie them in that place where they laie. It was not the least of the Englishmens meaning also to win from them certeine of their ordinance, that laie néerest vnto this church.Saturday, the tenth of Sep|tember, the daie of the battell. And herewith the same mor|ning, being the tenth of September, and Saturday, somewhat before eight of the clocke, the English ar|mie dislodged, & marched streight toward the church of Undre [...]ke, as well for intent to haue incamped neere the same, as for placing their ordinance, and o|ther considerations afore remembred.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Scots either for feare of the Englishmens departing, or hope of their spoiling, were out of their campe comming toward them, passed the riuer, ga|thered in araie, and well néere at this church, yer the Englishmen were halfe waie to it, so quite dis|appointing the Englishmens purpose. Which at the first séemed verie strange in their eies, as altogither beside their expectation, as they that thought they would neuer haue forsaken their strength, to méet them in the field. But after it was knowne that they did not onelie thus purpose to doo, but also to haue assailed them in their campe, as they laie if they had not béene stirring the timelier, and hauing caused all their tents to be let flat downe to the ground, yer they came out, bicause none should lie lurking be|hind them in their campe, and as well the nobles as other, leauing their horsses behind them (except such as were appointed to serue on horssebacke) mar|ched on with their souldiors on foot.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 They came spéedilie forwards on both sides,The English+men & Scots march the one armie toward the other. the one till then no whit aware of the others intent: but the Scots indeed with a rounder pase betweene two hillocks, betwixt the Englishmen and the church, mu|stred somewhat brim, at whome as they staied, the English gallie shot off, & slue the maister of Greime,The gallie. with fiue and twentie others néere by him, and there|with so skard foure thousand Irish archers,The Irish archers. brought by the earle of Argile, that where (as it was said) they should haue béene a wing to the fore-ward, they could neuer after be made to come forward. Hervp|on did their armie hastilie remooue, & from thence de|clining southward, tooke their direct waie toward Fauxside braie. Of this, sir Rafe Uane, lieutenant of all the English horssemen, first of all, or with the first, noting it, quicklie aduertised the lord protector, who thereby did readilie conceiue their meaning, which was to win the hill, and thereby the wind and sunne, the gaine of which thrée things (as is thought) whether partie in fight of battell can hap to obteine, hath his force doubled against his enimie.

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