Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 340They wente aboute to damme vp the mouth of the ryuer where it iſſueth out of the Loche, wyth earth,A deuyſe to drowne the caſtell. trees, and ſtones, that the water beyng ſo kepte in, might ryſe to ſuch an heighte, that it ſhoulde ouerflowe the Caſtell, and ſo drowne all the people wythin it: and to cauſe the Loche to ſwell more ſpeedyly, they tourned the courſe of dyuers ryuers and brookes in the countrey thereaboutes, and broughte them into the ſame loche.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 It chaunced at the ſame tyme, that ſir Iohn Striuelyng capitayne of the ſiege, with a great parte of the armie, went vnto Donfermling for deuotion ſake, to viſite the ſhrine of Saint Mar|garet, ſometyme Queene of Scotlande.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Whereof Alane Vepount then capitayne of the Caſtell, hauyng vnderſtanding, about mid|night prepared three boates, and takyng certayn ſouldiours with hym, rowed foorth to the heade of the damme or water, and there with ſuch en|gines as he had deuyſed for the purpoſe, aſſayed to boate thorough and make a hole in the banke or rampier that kepte vp the water, which when they had brought to paſſe, they returned quickely agayne to the caſtell.