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Compare 1587 edition: 1 As ſoone as the Engliſh men were aduertiſed that the Scots were thus departed, they haſted to the place where they had lyen encamped, in hope to haue founde ſome riches, which for haſt they had left behind them: but at their cõming thither, they found nothing, but, x.M. payre of Hielande ſhooes, which are made of greene hydes of beaſtes vntanned: Alſo they found three hundred by [...]es of ſauage beaſts ſet vpon ſtakes in ſtead of Caw|drons, therein to ſeeth their meate.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer, they had left behinde them fiue hundred dead carkaſſes of beaſtes & ſheepe, which for that they coulde not driue them away, they killed, to the ende the Engliſhe men ſhoulde haue no gaine by them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There were likewyſe founde fiue Engliſhe men wyth theyr legges broken, and bounde na|ked vnto trees, which were quickly looſed and cõ|mitted to the cure of Chirurgians.

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