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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 This sute was so furthered to the dukes grace by sir Miles Partrige that was néere at hand when they made this sute, that it was granted;Sir Miles Partrige. and they com|ming foorth, humbled themselues,Thornton yéelded. and without more hurt they were but commanded to the prouost mar|shall, who kept them for a time, and were after relea|sed. The house was shortlie after so blowen with pouder,The piles of Thornton and others defaced. that more than the one halfe of it fell streight downe to dust and rubbish, the rest stood all to shaken with rifts and chinks. Anderwike also was burned, and all the houses of office, and stacks of corne about them both. While this was in doing the dukes grace, in turning but about, saw the fall of Dunglas, which likewise was vndermined and blowen vp with pou|der.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 This doone, about noone the armie marched, and passing by Dunbar, the castell sent them diuerse shots of artillerie, but all in vaine. The Scotish prickers shewed themselues in the field with proffer of skirmish, but to no great purpose, one of them be|ing killed with a shot of one of Barteuils men an hackbutter on horssebacke. The armie hauing mar|ched that daie a ten miles, lodged at night néere vnto Tantallon, and had a blind alarum.Tantallon. Marching the next morning a two miles, they came to a riuer cal|led Lin, where there is a stone bridge,Linton bridge. named Lin|ton bridge of a towne thereby on the right hand as the armie marched, and standing eastward vpon the same riuer: the horssemen and carriages passed tho|rough the water, for it was not verie deepe, and the footmen ouer the bridge. The passage was streict for an armie, and therfore the longer in setting ouer.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 982Beyond this bridge about a mile westward vpon the same riuer, on the south side standeth a proper cas|tell called Hailes,Hailes castell. perteining to the earle of Both|well, but kept as then by the gouernors appoint|ment, who held the earle in prison. Out of this castell as the lord protector passed forward in following the fore-ward, there were roundlie shot off (but without hurt) six or seuen péeces, the which before that (though some of the armie had beene verie nigh) yet kept they all couert. In the meane time rose a thicke mist, which caused a great disorder in the rere-ward, by reason they could not sée about them. The earle of Warwike therefore doubting least the enimies, who had béen pricking vp and downe néere to the armie, and offered skirmish the same morning, should now by occasion of the mist attempt some feat to the an|noiance of the Englishmen in their passage, his lordship himselfe scant with sixtéene horsses (whereof Barteuill, and Iohn de Ribaud Frenchmen were two, seuen or eight light horssemen more, and the rest being his owne seruants) returned toward the pas|sage to sée the arraie againe.

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