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You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 2690 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 326)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe two hardie chieftaynes aſſembling an armie of .xx. thouſande men,They inuade Northum|berlande. or as ſome writers haue .xxv. thouſande, entred with the ſame into Northumberlande, waſting and ſpoyling the countrey on eche ſide.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 2691 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 326)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Agaynſt whom came king Edward with an army of an hundred thouſand men:

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King Edwarde the third com|meth with an army agaynſt them.

of the which number there were (as Froiſſart hath) an eight thouſande horſemen, and .xxiiij. thouſande Ar|chers. If their comming into Northumberland, they might wel perceyue by the ſmoke of the fiers which the Scottes made in burning of villages, houſes, and townes, where the enimies were but yet bycauſe they taryed not long in a place, but paſſed on withoute ſoiourning here or there, the Engliſh men might not come neare to fight wyth them.

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