Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 There were on either part a number of tall men of bodie, chosen foorth of purpose by the capteins, for the good opinion conceiued of their hardie valiancie, & the battell betwixt them séemed long time doubt|full and variable, now one while fauourable to the one part,The king fighteth him|selfe right va| [...]antlie. and an other while to the other. The king himselfe on foot euen in the foremost ranke, fought right valiantlie, incouraging his people, as well by example as exhortation, to doo their deuoirs. Nei|ther did the earle of Surrie for his part faile in the dutie of a right worthie generall. But while the bat|tell was thus foughten in most earnest maner about the standards with doubtfull chance of victorie, the lord Howard and sir Edward Stanleie hauing van|quished the enimies in either wing, returned to the middle-ward, and finding them there thus occupied, they set on, in two parts seuerallie, with great vio|lence.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 At the same time, the lord Dacres came with his horssemen vpon the backs of the Scots; so that they being thus assailed behind and before, and on either side, were constreined (as inuironed about) to fight in a round compasse. King Iames as he beheld sir A|dam Forman his standard-bearer beaten downe,The stout sto| [...]ach of king Iames. thought suerlie then, there was no waie for him but death, and that euen out of hand. Wherefore to deli|uer himselfe from such despitefull reproch, as was like to follow, he rushed foorth into the thickest prease of his enimies; and there fighting in most desperat wise,He is slaine. was beaten downe and slaine. And a little be|side him, there died with like obstinate wilfulnesse, or (if ye list so to terme it) manhood, diuerse honorable prelats, as the archbishop of saint Andrewes, and two other bishops, besides foure abbats; also of lords and knights of honor a six and thirtie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 Two battels of Scots fought not, but gaue the l [...]king on.The lord Hume and the earle of Huntleie got horsses, and escaped awaie togither with certeine bands, placed in two the hindermost wards, which of all that daie neuer came to handstrokes, but stood still and gaue the looking on. Thus thorough the power of God, on fridaie being the ninth of September, in the yeare 1513 was Iames the fourth of t [...]t name, king of Scots, slaine at Bramxston, and his armie discomfited by the earle of Surrie, lieutenant to Henrie the eight king of England, which a little be|fore had woone the towne of Terwine, and was then preparing to go to besiege Tornaie. There were slaine in this battell on the Scotish part, of all sorts, the number of eight thousand persons at the least: Pau. Iouius. Edw. Hall. some saie twelue thousand, besides prisoners that were taken, as sir William Scot, chancellor to the said king, and sir Iohn Forman his sergeant porter, with diuerse others. Also in maner, all the Scotish ensignes were taken, and a two and twentie péeces of great ordinance, amongest the which were seauen culuerings of a larg [...] ass [...]se, and verie faire peeces. King Iames named them (for that they were in ma|king one verie like to an other) the seauen sisters.Seuen cul|uerings called seuen sisters & why. This conflict with egernesse on both sides was con|tinued thrée full houres, as Anglorum praelia saith:

I am tres integras pugnatum est cominùs h [...]ras.