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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Almaignes were in no ſmall chaufe for the loſſe of their garments and other neceſſaries, but there was no helpe then to ſeeke remedy in that behalfe, for the Scottes were withdrawen and got quite out of daunger.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Engliſh army after that the Frenchmen were thus fledde and gone, paſſed foorth to Ha|dington with their cariages laden with vitailes, to the great comforte of them within that for|treſſe, ſtanding in great neceſſitie before this cõ|uoye came.Hadington vitayled. This ſommer alſo and a litle be|fore the vittellyng thus of Hadington, vpon knowledge had that Iulian Romero with his bande of Spaniardes,Iulian Rome|ro diſtreſsed. wherof he was Captaine ſeruyng the king of Englande, was lodged in Coldingham a ſixe miles diſtant frõ Berwike, certaine bandes of Almaignes and Frenchmen came thither vpon the ſuddẽ, and ſurpriſing the Spanyardes before they were aware of theyr approche, ſet vpon them in their lodgings, tooke and ſlew in maner the whole number of them.Faſt caſtell re|couered by Scottes. Moreouer about the ſame time Faſt caſtel was recouered by a trayne out of the Engliſhmens EEBO page image 480 handes, certayne Scottiſhmen fayning them|ſelues to bryng prouiſion of vittayles to them that kepte it, and getting entrie within the gate, firſt ſlewe the porters that warded at the gate, and after aſſayling the other within the houſe, ſlew the moſt parte of them, & tooke the reſidue, obteyning thereby poſſeſſion of the Caſtell.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 Things paſſing in this wiſe in Scotland in ye ſommer of this yeare .154 [...].? the Engliſhmẽ were not onely in the meane time ſore troubled with commotions rayſed by the commons of that realme, but alſo with the warres which the Frenche king made agaynſt them, within the countrey of Boullongnoys, ſo that they had not meane to imploy their forces againſt Scotland as they had determined to haue done, as partely before and more largely in the hiſtory of En|gland is mentioned,Hadington raſed and l [...]ft by the Engliſh men. by reaſon whereof, anone after Michaelmas they gaue ouer ye keepyng of Hadingtõ, & raſing their fortificatiõs there, they returned into England to the great reioyſing of the inhabitantes of Louthian, to whome that towne had giuen occaſion of greate troubles & calamities. Vpon the giuing ouer thus of Ha|dington, the Gouernour & the Queene Dowa|ger were aduanced, in hope to recouer againe al that the Engliſhmẽ helde within the boundes of Scotland, but firſt it was thought good to aſſay the winning of Broghtie Crag, for it ſounded (as was thought) greatly to the diminiſhing of the eſtimation, aſwell of the Scots as French|men, that the Engliſhmen ſhould keepe foote ſo farre within the realme, in diſpite of their whole puyſſance.

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