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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the fourtéenth daie the Englishmen brake EEBO page image 963 downe the [...]ir [...] of the hauen of Lith, and burnt eue|rie sticke of it. This doone, and hauing shipped their great artillerie, and taken foorth all such Scotish ships as were méet to serue, appointing them to at|tend on their ships, they tooke vpon them to returne home by land Amongst other ships which the Eng|lishmen had in Lith h [...]uen; there were two of nota|ble fairenesse, the one called the Salamander, giuen by the French king at the marriage of his daughter into Scotland, the other called the Unicorne, made by the late Scotish king [...]punc; The balast of these two ships was cannon [...], which they found in the towne, to the number of foure score thousand. The rest of the Scotish ships being taken awaie togither with their owne ships, which they brought with them, were for the more part pestered with the spoile and boot [...]es of the souldiors & mariners. On the fiftéenth of Maie; their armie and their fleet departed from Lith both in one houre, the towne being set on fire and burned to the gro [...]nd.Lith burnt.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The English armie incamped that night at a place called Seaton, seuen miles from Lith, where they burnt the castell, and destroied the orchards and gardens with the more despite, for that the lord Sea|ton owner of the place,The lord Seaton. was the chiefe laborer to helpe the lord cardinall out of prison. The same daie was Haddington burnt,Haddington burnt. with a great nunrie and house of friers there. The next night they incamped beside Dunbar, where they had an alarum giuen them, but in the morning they burnt the towne of Dunbar,Dunbar burnt. and marched foorth, though somewhat staid by the waie, by reason of the mist and fog, which was verie thicke, continuing all the forenoone, and bicause also they vnderstood how the lords of Seton & Hume with the lard of Bouclough, and others, had assem|bled a power of men of warre, and were minded to impeach their passage at a streict named the Pease.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But after that the mist brake vp, which was about two of the clocke in the afternoone, the Englishmen came forward, and passed the same streict without a|nie resistance. For the Scotish lords perceiuing that they were not of power sufficient to incounter with the Englishmen, minded not to put their people in their danger, but wiselie retired, suffering the Eng|lishmen to passe at their pleasure, who that night lodged at Ranton, eight miles distant from our bor|ders, where hauing ouerthrowne a pile which stood there, they dislodged the next morrow, and the same daie being the eightéenth of Maie, they entered into Berwicke:The end of the voiage. so ending their voiage with great ioie and gladnesse, not hauing lost past fortie persons in all this iournie.

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