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Barwik beſie|ged.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 For in the meane time,Ri. Southwel. whilſt king Edward lay at y^e ſiege before Barwike, Thomas Randoll Erle of Murrey, and the Lord Iames Dowglas aſſembled their forces togither, but perceyuing thẽſelues too weake to remoue the ſiege by force, they paſſed by, & entring into Englande, waſted and ſpoyled all before them; keeping on their way vnto Borrow bridge: whereof when the Citizens of Yorke were aduertiſed, with their Captaines William Melton their Archbiſhop,William Mel|ton Archbi|ſhop of York. & the Biſhop of Ely, not making them of the countrey once priuy to their purpoſe, but hauing in their compa|ny a great number of prieſts and men of religion, they gaue battaile to the Scots one day in the af|ter noone,The battail of Mitton vpon Swale. not farre from the towne of Miton vpõ Swale .xij. miles diſtãt from York northwards. But forſomuch as the more part of the Engliſh men were not expert in the feates of warre, and came not in any orderly aray of battail, they were eaſily vanquiſhed and put to flight by the Scots,The Engliſh men diſcom|fited. who were readie to receyue them in good order, cloſe togither in one entier ſquadrone, and after their accuſtomed maner, at their firſte ioyning they gaue a great ſhowte, wherwith the Engliſh men out of hand began to giue backe: which whẽ the Scots perceyued, they got them to their hor|ſes, and followed the chaſe moſte egrely, beating downe and ſleaing the Engliſh men, neither ſpa|ring religious perſon nor other, ſo that there died to the number of .iiij.M. Engliſh men that day,The Maior of Yorke ſlaine. and amongeſt the reſt was the Maior of Yorke one. In the water of Swale (as was ſayde) there were drowned to the number of a thouſand: to be ſhort, if night had not come the ſooner vpon, it was thought vneth there ſhould any of the Eng|liſh part haue eſcaped. When K. Edward lying as yet at the ſiege of Barwike,King Edwarde leuieth his ſiege. vnderſtoode what miſchief the Scots did within his realme, he ray|ſed his ſiege, in purpoſe to haue encountered with his enimies: but the Scots aduertiſed of his pur|poſe, returned with all their priſoners and ſpoile by Stanemoore and ſo through Gilleſlande, and the weſt marches, w^tdrew home into their cũtry.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 About the feaſt of al Saints, when the inhabi|tants of the north partes had got in their harueſt, ſo that their barnes were now ſtuffed with corn, of the which prouiſion they were to liue all y^e yere after,The Scots in|uade England. the Scots vnder the conduct of the ſaid two captains, the Erle of Murrey, & the Lord Dow|glas, entred into England, and burnt the country of Gilſlãd, taking away both ſuch people as they tooke priſoners, and alſo all the cattell which they might meete with, and ſo kept vpon their iourney till they came to Bourgh vnder Stanemore,Bourgh vnder Stanemoore. de|ſtroying all afore them, and then returning EEBO page image 322 through Weſtmerland, practiſed the like miſchief there, in burning vp houſes and corne in all pla|ces where they came, as they had done before in Gilſlande. And finally paſſing through Cum|berlande with the like hauocke, at length they drewe home into their owne Countrey with no ſmall number of pryſoners, and plentie of great ryches which they had got in that iourney.