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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Diſcorde of writers.Other writers report the maner of his taking not altogether agreeable with that whiche wee haue here aboue remẽbred, who declare how king William after he had waſted all Cumberlande, came into Northumberlande, not ceaſſyng tyll he came to Anwike, where he ſtayed for a tyme to haue had battayle, but in the meane whyle the Engliſhmen laye cloſe togither withoute noyſe or apperance, in ſuche wiſe that no Scottiſhmã could haue vnderſtanding where they were.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 At length king William a wearied with long tarying thus at Anweke, and ſeeing no enimies to appeare, determined to worke ſome exployte yet before his returne, and thervppon ſent foorth the moſt parte of all his armie abroade into the countrey, to forrey the ſame, keeping no greate companie about hym, tyll the returne of the o|ther thus ſente foorth.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Whervpon incontinently a great ambuſhe|ment of Engliſhmen came vpon him with coũ|terfayted Scottiſhe enſignes, and were not once ſuſpected for Engliſhmen, til the king was com|paſſed in by them on eche ſyde, & ſo finally taken & led away ere any Scottiſhmã wiſt therof, ſaue a few which were left (as is ſayd wyth hym for ye time.Wilhelmus Paruus. In deed Wilhelmus Paruus a Chanon ſomtyme in the abbey of Bridlington in York|ſhire, in that his hook which he writes of ye Nor|man kings of England, affirmeth how ther wer not many moe than aboute three ſcore horſmen with king William whyle he was thus taken, and that the Engliſhemen were not paſte foure hundred horſemen, whiche tooke vpon them that enterpriſe: whoſe capitaines as he reciteth were theſe:Capitaines of of the Engliſh+men. Robert de Stuteuille, Ranulfe de Glaun|ville, Bernard de Balliole, and diuers other.

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