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You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 3106 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 359)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The king of England being informed alſo of this miſhap, appoynted two armies, one by ſea,

An army by ſea and an o|ther by lande prepared a|gainſt the Scottes.

The Duke of Lancaſter com|meth with an army to Eden|bourgh.

& another by land, to inuade the Scots, ye Duke of Lancaſter hauing the general charge & conduit of thẽ both, who giuing order to thẽ that ſhuld paſſe by ſea what they ſhuld do, entred himſelf by land, and waſting the coũtryes of March & Louthian, came to Edenbourgh, & toke ye town, but wheras EEBO page image 360 his ſouldiours woulde haue ſpoyled and burned it, he compounded with the inhabitantes for a ſumme of money, and ſo returned without doing any more domage.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 3107 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 360)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 His nauie being as then arriued in the Forth, taryed behinde, and firſt burning the Abbay of Saint Colmes Inche, a number of the Souldi|diers with their Captaynes landed in Fife, and ſpoyled diuerſe townes and villages there: but in the ende, Thomas and Nicholas Erſkynnes be|ing brethren, Alexander Lindſey, and William Cunningham of Kylmauris,The Engliſh men diſcom|fited in Fife. ſet vpon them, and ſlue the moſt part of them, ſo that few in number eſcaped againe to their ſhips, being purſued hard to the water ſide.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 3108 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 360)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The ſtrengthes of Tiuidale recouered.The ſame yere the Erle of Dowglas recoue|red al the ſtrengthes of Tiuidale out of the Eng|liſh mens handes, which they had helde euer ſithe the battaile of Durham vnto thoſe dayes.

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