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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Sir Andrew Dudley, Captayn of Brough|tie Crag, bare himſelfe right valiantly, in defen|ding the Caſtell during thys ſiege, ſo that the Scottes certeſſe loſt diuers hardy perſonages, and among other Gawen Hamilton, the Go|uernoures kinneſman, was ſlayne at the ſame ſiege.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Prior of Whiterne.Moreouer, the Prior of Whiterne by hys letters and meſſengers, offered himſelfe to obey the King of Englande: and the inhabitantes of the burroughe and hauen townes of Wigton and Kirckowbre, the Knightes of Loghinwar and Garleis, the Laird and tutor of Bomby, ye Lairde of Cardines, and all the Gentlemen of Annandale, Nideſdale, and Galloway, euen to Whiterne, beeyng .80. myles in length from Carelile, through the inducemente of the fore|ſayd Prior, and of the Knightes of Loghinwar and Garleis (for the fauor they bare to ye Earle of Lennox) within two dayes after the diſconfi|ture of Drumlanrig, came vnto Dunfreis, and there receyued an oth to be true to the Kyng of Englande, and afterwardes wente with the Earle vnto Carelile, leauing the Countrey in good quiet, and the King of England acknow|ledged for Lorde of Galloway, Nideſdale, and Annandale by the inhabitants thereof.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 And after that the forenamed perſons hadde remayned for a ſpace at Carelile,The Scottes deliuer pled|ges. they deliuered pledges, and returned home, into their Coun|treys, as aſſured men and ſubiects to the Kyng of England.

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