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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In all this enterprise, they vsed for haste so little the helpe of horsse, that they plucked foorth their ordi|nance by draught of men, which at that present be|gan fréelie to shoot off towards the English armie, whereby it was perceiued they ment more than a skirmish.Consultation of the Eng|lish lords on horssebacke. Herewith euerie man began to applie him selfe in his charge and dutie which he had to doo. And herewith the lord protector, and other of the councell on horssebacke as they were, fell streight in consul|tation. The sharpenesse of whose circumspect wise|doms, as it quicklie espied out the enimies intents, so did it among other things promptlie prouide ther|in remedie, to preuent them (as néedfull it was) for the time asked no leisure.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Their deuise was, that the lord Greie of Wilton, marshall of the armie, with his band of Bulleners,The deuise of the lords vpon their consul|tation. and with the lord protectors band, and the earle of Warwikes, all to the number of eightéene hundred horssemen, on the left hand on the east halfe, and sir EEBO page image 985 Rafe Uane, with sir Thomas Darcie capteine of the pensioners, and men of armes, and the lord Fitz|waters, with his band of demilances, all to the num|ber of sixtéene hundred, to be readie and euen with the lord marshall, on the west halfe. And thus all these togither afore to incounter the enimies afront, whereby either to breake their araie, and that waie to weaken their power by disorder, or at the least to stop them of their gate, and force them to staie, while the fore-ward might wholie haue the hilles side, and the battell and rere-ward be placed in grounds next that in order, and best for aduantage. And after this, that the same horssemen should retire vp to the hilles side to come downe in order afresh, and infest them on both sides, whilest the foot battels should occupie them in fight afront.