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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On thursdaie the first of September the lord pro|tector, not with manie more than with his owne band of horssemen, rode to a towne standing on the sea coast, a six miles from Berwike within Scotland called Aimouth,The lord pro|tector causeth Aimouth ri|uer to be soun|ded. whereat there runneth a riuer into the sea, which he caused to be sounded, and finding the same well able to serue for an hauen, caused af|terwards a fortresse to be raised there, appointing Thomas Gower, that was marshall of Berwike, to be capteine thereof. On fridaie, all sauing the councell departed the towne of Berwike, and in|camped a two flight shoots off, by the sea side, toward Scotland. And the same daie the lord Clinton with his fléet tooke the seas from Berwike, to the end that in case the wind should not serue them to kéep [...] course with the armie by land; yet were it but with the driuing of tides, they might vpon anie néed of munition or vittels be still at hand, or not long from them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The same daie the earle of Warwike,Sir Rafe Sadler trea|suror of the English ar|mie. and sir Rafe Sadler treasuror of the armie, came to Ber|wike from Newcastell, where they had staid till then, for the full dispatch of the rest of the armie, and the next daie the earle of Warwike incamped in field with the armie.A proclama|tion. On which daie a proclamation with sound of trumpet was made by an herald in thrée se|uerall places of the campe, signifieng the cause of the comming of the kings armie at that present into Scotland, which in effect was, to aduertise all the Scotish nation, that their comming was not to de|priue them of their liberties, but to aduance the mar|riage alreadie concluded and agréed vpon betwixt the kings maiestie of England and their quéene, and no hostilitie ment to such as should shew themselues furtherers thereof. On the fourth of September being sundaie, the lord protector came from out of the towne, and the armie raised, and marched that daie a six miles, and camped by a village called Ro|stan in the baronrie of Boukendall.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The order of their march was this.The order of the armie in marching forward. Sir Francis Brian capteine of the light horssemen, with foure hundred of his band, tended to the skout a mile or two before. The carriages kept along the sea coast, and the men at armes and demilances diuided into thrée troops, answering the thrée wards, rid in ar|raie directlie against the cariages a two flight shoots asunder from them. The thrée foot battels kept order in place betwixt them both. The fore-ward foremost, the battell in the middest, the rere-ward hindermost, ech ward hauing his troope of horssemen and gard of ordinance, his aid of pioners for amendment of EEBO page image 981 waies, where néed should be. The fift of September they marched an eight miles, vntill they came to the Peaths,The Peaths. a clough or vallie, running for a six miles west streight eastward, and toward the sea a twentie score brode from banke to banke aboue, and a fiue score in the bottome, wherein runnes a little riuer. Stéepe is this vallie on either side, and déepe in the bottome.

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