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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Queene in the meane time vſed what diligence ſhee mighte to gather forces,The Queene gathereth forces. ſpecially in the Mers and Eaſt Louthian, and thinking that the enterpriſe of the Lords had bin broken and diſappoynted, marched from Dunbar on Saterday the fourteenth of Iune, firſt to Ha|thington, and there reſting till the euen ſet for|warde to Gladiſmore, and taking there deliue|ration in the matter, they lodged that nyghte at Scaton, and in the morning marched in or|der of battaile towardes Carbarry hill,Carbarry hill. and there chooſe foorthe a plotte of ground of greate aduantage, appoynting to fyghte on foote, by|cauſe the power of the Lordes in number of Horſemenne, was ſtronger than the Queenes, and of greater experience.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There were with the Queene and Both|well the Lordes Scaton, Yeſter and Borth|wike: alſo the Lardes of Wauchton, Bas, Or|miſton, Weaderburne, Blackater, and Lang|ton.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 They hadde with them alſo two hundred Harquebuſiers waged, and of greate artillerie, ſome fielde pieces. Their whole number was eſteemed to bee aboute two thouſande,The number of the Queene Power. but the more part of them were commons and Coun|treymen.

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