Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 Iames before his execution made a very wiſe o|ration to the ſtanders by,Iames Leuing|ſton made an Oration. declaring the inſtabili|tie of fortune, & chaũge of court, exhorting al per|ſons to beware thereof, ſith enuye euer followed high eſtate, and wicked malice neuer ſuffred good men to gouerne long.W. Creichton condemned. In the ſame Parliament ſir William Creichton was alſo forfalted for di|uerſe cauſes, but principally for that his ſeruants would not deliuer the houſe of Chreichton to the kings heralde, who charged them ſo to do. This forfalture was cõcluded in parliament by vertue of an act which the ſaide William (when he was Chancellor) cauſed to be made, & ſo being the firſt inuenter, was alſo the firſt againſt whom it was practiſed.

Incurſions made.

1448

The yeare next enſuing were ſundris incurſions made betwixt Scots and Engliſhmẽ on the borders, Dunfreis was burnt, and likewiſe Anwike in Englãd: but ſhortly after a truce was concluded for .vij. yeres, great offers of friendſhip made by the Engliſh men for to haue the warres ceaſe on that ſide, bicauſe the warre betwixt thẽ & Fraunce was very hotely purſued, and ciuill diſ|ſention diſquieted the ſtate of Englãd which was rayſed betwixt y^e two houſes of Lãcaſter & York.

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1450

Engliſh men fetch booties [...] of Scot|lande.

The Engliſh borderers of the weſt Marches fetched a great bootie of cattell out of Scotlande, notwithſtanding the truce, in reuenge whereof, the Scots inuading England, waſted the coun|trey, burnt townes and villages, ſlue the people, and with a great praye of priſoners, goodes, and cattel,The S [...]ntes made Eng|lande. returned home into Scotland. Herewith followed dayly rodes and forrayes made on both ſides betwixt the Scottes and Engliſh men, and that with ſuch rage and crueltie, that a great part of Cumberland was in maner layde waſt: for on that ſide the Scots chiefly made their inuaſions, bycauſe that from thence the firſt occaſion of all this miſchiefe might ſeeme to haue had the begin|ning. Whẽ ſuch things were certified to the king of Englandes counſell, an army was appointed forthwith to inuade Scotlãd, vnder y^e leading of the Earle of Northumberland,A knight na|med Magnus. & of one Magnus ſurnamed redbeard, a captain of great experience, as he that had bene trayned vp from his youth in the warres of Fraunce. The Scottes bycauſe of his long red beard, called him in ſcorne and deri|ſion, Magnus with the red mane.