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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus was Inſkith recouered out of the En|gliſhmens hands,Insketh reco|uered out by the Frenchmẽ after it had bene in their poſ|ſeſſion by the ſpace of .xvj. dayes, the more to the highe contentation of Monſieur de Deſſe, for that the ſame time he ſtoode vpon his diſcharge EEBO page image 479 and returne into Fraunce, beyng appoynted to ſurrender vp his place to Mõſieur de Thermes, lately before arriued (as ye haue heard) with cõ|miſſion to receiue the ſame.Monſieur de Deſ [...]e retur|ned into Fraunce. So that Monſieur de Deſſe to ende his charge with the glory of this atchieued enterpryſe, eſteemed it muche to ſtande with his honour.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Shortly after he returned into Fraunce with the Galleys,Monſieur de Thermes ſuc|ceedeth in his place. and Monſieur de Thermes ſuccee|ded in his place for the generall conduct of the French army in Scotland. Who by the aduiſe of the gouernour and other of the Scottiſh lords determined with a ſiege volant to keepe the En|gliſhmen in Hadington from vitayles and all other reliefe. Firſt therefore after that Deſſe was departed towardes Fraunce, Monſieur de Thermes with his Frenchmẽ and ſome Scots encamped at Abirladie, [...]re buylte Aberlady. where they beganne the fundation of a forte, ſo to impeach the Engliſh|men from ſetting a lande any victuals, there to be conueyed from thence to Hadington as be|fore they had done.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 In this meane tyme the Engliſhmen had increaſed theyr nũbers of Almaignes and other ſtraungers, and not onely furniſhed their fortes with new ſupplies of men, but alſo had an army in the fieldes whiche lay moſt an ende at Dun|glas, and one while beſieged Hume caſtell, but after they ſawe themſelues diſappoynted of the meane, wherby they ſuppoſed to haue recouered it, they reyſed from thence and ſpoyled the moſt parte of Tiuidale and other the Marches there|about, in reuenge as they alledged, of the diſloy|altie and breache of promiſe proued in the aſſu|red Scottes. Generall of this army was the Erle of Rutland,Erle of Rutland. Lieutenant at that preſent of the North partes, a noble man right valiaunt, wiſe, well aduiſed, and ſtayed in his dealings, very honorable & courteous in al his demeanor. He was accompanied with Capitaynes of good eſtimatiõ and approued prowes, as ſir Richard Maners, ſir Frauncis Leake, ſir Iohn Sanage, ſir Thomas Holcroft, ſir Oſwald Wulſtroppe and others. He ſo behaued himſelfe in that daungerous time of the vprores and rebellious commotions of the commõs, through the more parte of the realme of Englande, that although the appoynted forces agaynſt Scotlande were ſtayed, and turned to the ſuppreſſion of the re|belles, to the encouragement no doubte bothe of Scottes and Frenchmen in Scotland, yet they were ſo fronted and kept in awe by that army vnder the ſayde Erle of Ruthland, that they ra|ther loſt than gayned in this ſeaſon at the En|gliſhmens handes.

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