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Compare 1587 edition: 1 This armie when they were all togither, a|mounted to the number of fiftie thouſande men, the which entring into England,Caſtels wonne. tooke the caſtels of Warke, Fourde, and Cornwall.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this, by robbing and ſpoyling the coun|trey betwixt Barwike and Newcaſtell, they did much hurt in all parties where they came, but through continuall rayne whiche fell as then in greate aboundaunce, they were conſtrayned to returne into Scotlande, where they pytched downe theyr fielde neare to the Caſtell of Rokeſ|bourgh, purpoſing to haue aſſayed the wynning thereof, but foraſmuche as they coulde not agree in whoſe name it ſhoulde be kept, if were woon, they left that enterpriſe.The French men & Scots cannot agree. For the French men re|quyred that if they wanne it, that then it might bee kept by them, in the name, and to the behoofe of the French King, whervnto the Scots would not agree.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Yet after this the French men wiſhing to ac|compliſh ſome other enterpriſe, went to the weſt borders, where ioyning wyth Archymhalde Dowglas Lorde of Galloway,They inuade Cumberland. they paſſed o|uer Sulway ſandes, and ſo entring into Cum|berlande, did wonderfull muche hurte in that Countrey.

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