Compare 1577 edition: 1 On thursdaie being the fiftéenth of this moneth,Blacke Nesse an hauen towne on the south shore of Scotland. the lord Clinton high admerall, taking with him the gallie whereof Richard Brooke was capteine, and foure or fiue other smaller vessels besides, as well ap|pointed with munition and men, rowed vp the Forth a ten miles westward, to an hauen towne standing on the south shore called Blacke Nesse, whereat to|ward the water side is a castell of a pretie strength; as nigh wherevnto as the depth of the water would suffer, the Scots for safegard had laid the Marie Willoughbie, and the Anthonie of Newcastell, two tall ships, which with extreme iniure they had stol|len from the Englishmen before time, when no war was betwixt vs: with these laie there also an other large vessell called the Bosse, and seauen more, wher|of part laden with merchandize.Thrée ships of name woone from the Scots. The lord Clinton and his companie with right hardie approach, after a great conflict betwixt the castell and his vessels, by fine force wan from them those thrée ships of name, and burnt all the residue before their faces.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The sixtéenth of September the lard of Brimston a Scotish gentleman came to the dukes grace from EEBO page image 990 their counsell for cause of communication, and retur|ned againe to them, hauing with him Norreie an herald and king at armes of ours, who found them with the old quéene at Sterling.Sir Iohn Luttrell. S. Cooms ins kept with a garrison of Englishmen. On saturdaie the seauentéenth of September, sir Iohn Luttrell in the after noone departed toward saint Cooms ins, hauing with him an hundred harquebutters, fiftie pioners, & two row barks well furnished with muni|tion, and thrée score and ten mariners to remaine there, & kéepe that from inuasion of the enimies, a|gainst whom the English were so sharplie whetted, that when they came to incounter, they gaue proofe of their manhood by wounds and bloudshed, accor|ding to the report of C.O. in these verses following:
— Anglorum pectora MauorsBelliger exacüit, crescunt ad vulnera vires.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the time whilest the armie laie thus in the campe betwéene Lieth and Edenburgh, manie lards and gentlemen came in to the lord protector to require his protection, the which his grace to whome he thought good did grant.The earle of Bothwell. This daie came the earle of Bothwell to his grace, who hauing beene kept in prison by the gouernour, the night after the battell was set at libertie, and comming thus to the lord protector, was friendlie welcomed and interteined; and hauing this night supped with his grace, he de|parted.