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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Diuers Scottes that day at the ouerthrow & chafe of their horſemen were taken pryſoners,The Lorde Grey of ſcot|land takẽ pry|ſoner. as the Lord Gery and others.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this the Engliſhmen wanne the ſtrong pile of Caw milles, wherin were a .xvj.Caw milles wonne by the Engliſhmen. Frenche|men, that defended it for the time very ſtoutly, ſo that it coſte the liues of diuers Engliſhmen EEBO page image 486 before they could take it.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 Shortly after, there was a ſore ſkirmiſhe at Halidon hill: for where as the moſt parte of the Sommer it was ordeyned that euery day cer|tayne bandes of Souldiers ſhoulde warde on the ſame hill, to giue libertie to the inhabitantes of Berwike, to mowe and carrie in theyr baye, they continued for a tyme without any trouble offered by the Scottes or Frenche, ſo that the warders ſtandyng in no doubte of the enimies, vſed out of theyr armour to ſhoote, boule, coyte, and exerciſe ſuch lyke games of pleaſure, wher|of the Scottes and Frenchmen beyng aduerti|ſed, came one day from Aymouth in ſo ſecrete wiſe, that they were drawen very neare to the Engliſhmen, ere they had any warning of their approche, ſo that before they could be gotte into order, the Scottes and Frenchmen were almoſt at theyr elbowes, and falling in ſkirmiſhe with them,A ſore skir|miſh on Hali|done hill handled them very roughly, although ſir William Breretõ, ſir Iohn Markham, maſter William Drurie, Cutbert Vawghan and o|ther the Capitaynes of the Engliſhmen did be|haue themſelues right manfully, brynging their men in order, encouragyng them; and doyng what appertained vnto hardie and ſkilful war|riours, but yet three tymes that day the Scots and Frenchmen put them from the heigth of the hill, till at length ſir Iames Croft comming from Berwike, vſed ſuche diligence and policy in the mater, that the Scottes and French were repulſed and conſtreyned to retyre, withdraw|ing backe vnto Aymouth, after they had conti|nued in ſkirmiſhe from one of the clocke till it was paſte foure, with no ſmall loſſe on bothe partes.

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