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Compare 1577 edition: 1 When the whole power was assembled, the duke of Norffolke then lieutenant generall,The English armie entreth into Scot|land. accompani|ed with the earles of Shrewsburie, Derbie, Cumber|land, Surreie, Hertford, Angus, Rotland, and the lords of the north parts, and sir Anthonie Browne master of the horsses, sir Iohn Gage controllor of the kings house, and others, hauing with them twentie thousand men well and warlike appointed, entred Scotland the one and twentith of October, and tar|ried there eight daies, without hauing anie battell offered vnto them, in which space they burnt these townes and villages, Paxton, Ramrige, Stine, Gradin, Shilles, lang Ednem, Newton, Skitshell, Newthorne, Smellem spittle, the two Merdens, Sledericke, and the two Brorlawes, Floris, and the Faire croft, Ednem spittle, Roxborough, Kelscie and the abbeie, long Spronstow, Riden, and Haden|ston. For they had determined with fire and sword to take vtter reuenge, crieng out, as the poet saith;

Vindice ferro opus esse, opus esse & vindice flamma,
Acclamant omines.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Now while the duke was at Farnton, the fourth daie after his comming into Scotland, there came to speake with him halfe a mile from the campe, the bishop of Orkeneie, and Iames Leirmouth sent from the king of Scots to intreat of peace, but they agréed not. Finallie, after the Englishmen had lien so long within Scotland as they might recouer vit|tles, at length for necessitie they returned to Ber|wike.The earle of Southamp|tons stan|dard. In all which iourneie the standard of the earle of Southampton, late lord priuie seale (which died at Newcastell before their entring into Scotland) was borne in the fore-ward, because he was appointed capteine of the same.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king of Scots, hearing that the English ar|mie was returned, raised a power of fiftéene thou|sand men forth of all parts of his realme, vnder the guiding of the lord Maxwell (or rather of Oliuer Sincler, as the Scots affirme) boasting to tarrie as long in England,An armie of Scots inuade England. as the duke of Norffolke had tarried in Scotland. And so on fridaie being saint Katharins euen, they passed ouer the water of Eske, and burnt certeine houses of the Greues on the ve|rie border. Thomas bastard Dacres, with Iacke of Musgraue sent word to sir Thomas Wharton lord Warden for the king vpon the west marches, to come forward to succour them. But in the meane while the Scots entring verie fierclie, the aforesaid two valiant capteins, bastard Dacres and Mus|graue, manfullie set vpon the Scots with one hun|dred light horsses, and left a stale on the side of a hill, wherewith the Scots were woonderfullie dismaied, thinking that either the duke of Norffolke with his whole armie had béene come to those west marches,The error of the Scots. or that some other great power had beene comming against them, when they saw onelie sir Thomas Wharton with three hundred men marching forward toward them.The Scots flie. But so it fortuned at that time vn|doubtedlie, as God would haue it, that the Scots fled at the first brun [...], whome the Englishmen follo|wed, and tooke prisoners at their pleasure; for there was small resistance, or none at all shewed by the Scots.

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