Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Earle of Ormonte on the other ſyde ordered his battailes in this wiſe: He appointed a right valiant knight called Wallace of Craggy,Wallace of Craggy. with an hardie number of ſouldiers to encounter with Magnus. And agaynſt the Welchmen he placed the Lord Maxwel, & Lard Iohnſton, with a choſen cõpanie of luſtie Scottiſh men, and cõ|maunding himſelf in the battail or middle ward, had vneth ſet his people in aray, when the trum|pets in the Engliſh armie began to ſounde to the battaile.The Earle of Ormont ex|horteth his armie. He therfore exhorting his men to do va|liantly, put them in remembrance that they had put on armor, being thereto prouoked by iniu [...] which their enimies had firſt offred them, where|vpon they might conceiue good hope of victory by the fauour of the righteous God, who giueth the vpper hãd (for the moſt part) to that ſide that hath iuſt cauſe to make warre. He willed them then to put all feare out of their heartes, and as they had force ynough to vãquiſh their enimies that came thus to brag & threaten them with vtter deſtruc|tion: ſo he beſought them to ſhewe no leſſe man|like ſtomacks to deliuer theyr countrey by hardie fight from iniurie of the ſame enimies.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He had no ſooner made an ende of his ſpeech,The battaile is begun. but that the Arrowes came ſo thicke from the Engliſhe Archers, that the Scottes beganne to looke about them, as it were to ſee whiche waye they might beſt eſcape by flight. But Wallace [figure appears here on page 390] perceyuing theyr fayntneſſe of courage, wyth lowde voice reprooued theyr cowardice, and with moſt pithie wordes exhorted them to remember theyr dueties, and to followe the example of him theyr leader, whome they ſhoulde perceyue to haue fully vowed to ſpende his lyfe in defence of his countrey.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 The Scots herewith ſeeme to be ſo encoura|ged that they ruſhed forward with great egernes vpon the right wing of the Engliſh men, where Magnus ſtood, & ſo laid about them with ſpeares, ares, and ſuch like hand weapons, that with great ſlaughter they driue the Engliſhe men to breake aray and to flee: Magnus herewith being more chaufed than afrayde as ſhould appeare, preaſſed forward vpon Wallace with great violence, and ſeeking to approch vnto him that he might haue wroken his grief vpon him,Magnus is ſlaine. was incloſed among the Scottiſh troupes & ſlaine with a few other of his friends and ſeruants that followed him. The ſlaughter of this man in whom conſiſted no ſmal hope of victorie on the Engliſh part, put the reſi|due of their army in ſuch feare that they were not able lõger to reſiſt the Scottiſh mens violent im|preſſion,The Engliſh men put to flight. but turning their backs fled a main, whõ the Scots purſued in chaſe right fiercely, ſo that many of the Engliſh men died in the battail, but more now in the chaſe, for the [...]ide being come in, [...] ſtayed many of them that made their [...]ourſe to haue eſcaped through y^e riuer, wherby diuerſe that ventured into the water were drowned, and other that durſt not take the water were oppreſſed by the Scottes that followed them.