The Holinshed Project

Holinshed Project Home

The Texts
1577

Previous | Next

[figure appears here on page 357]

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Engliſh men inuade Scotlande.Herevpon the Engliſh men ſhortly after enter with an armie into Scotlande, burning & doing much hurt vpon the landes of ſir Iohn Gordon, for that they ioyned to the Erle of Marches lãds.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Sir Iohn Gordoun right deſirous to reuenge this iniurie, came into Englande with an armie, and getting togither a great bootie of Cattell, re|turned therwith homewardes, but being encoun|tred by the way at a place called Carran or Car|ram, by Iohn Lilborne and other Engliſh men, there was a ſore fight betwixt them, the victorie for a time ſhewing it ſelfe ſo variab [...]e and vncer|taine, that ſir Iohn Gordon was ſore wounded, and the Scottes were fiue tymes that day had in chaſe, and as often got the like aduantage of their enimies.

The Engliſh men diſcom|fited.

Sir Iohn Lyl|borne taken.

Previous | Next