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Compare 1587 edition: 1 There were taken in all of Engliſhmen,The number of priſoners taken. to the number of a thouſande and fortie, and ſlayne what in the fielde and chaſe (as Froyſart recoun|teth) aboue an eyghteene hundred.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But yet the Scottiſh writers themſelues re|port, a leſſe number.There were ſlayne but fiue hundreth Engliſhmen as Hector Boe|tius hath. The death of Iames Earle of Dowglas. Neyther did this victory chaunce to the Scottes withoute greate loſſe and ſlaughter.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 For amongſt other, the Earle of Dowglas himſelfe was thrice ſtriken through the body, and EEBO page image 364 alſo wounded ſo mortally on the head, that being borne to his tent a little before the end of the bat|tell, he dyed of thoſe hurtes immediately after, to the greate diſcomforte of all his armie, concey|uing more dolorous griefe for the loſſe of ſo wor|thy a chieuetayne,See more of this matter in Englande. than ioy for the gayne of ſo greate a victory. His body was conueyed vnto Melros, and buryed beſide his father Earle Wil|liam in the Abbey church there. And bycauſe this Earle Iames had no heires of his body begot|ten,Archimbalde Dowglas ſuc|ceeded the Earle Iames of Dowglas. his Couſin Archembald Dowglas Lord of Galloway ſucceeded him in the Earledome.

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