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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The lord admerall herevpon came to land, and ri|ding backe with the earle vnto the lord protector,Order taken for the placing of the ships. or|der was taken, that the great ships should remoue from before Lieth, and come to lie before Muskel|borough; and the Scotish campe which laie there in field alreadie assembled, to resist the English power that marched thus towards them. The smaller ves|sels that were vittelers were appointed to lie néerer to the armie. The lord admerall herevpon, being re|turned to the water, & the armie marching onward a mile or two, there appéered aloft on a hill, that laie longwise east and west, and on the south side of them, vpon a six hundred of their horssemen prickers, wher|of some within a flight shoot,The Scotish prickers shew themselues. directlie against the En|glishmen, shewed themselues vpon the same hill, & more further off.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Toward these, ouer a small bridge that laie ouer a little riuer there, verie hardlie did ride about a do|zen haquebutters on horssebacke, and held them at baie so nie to their noses, that whether it were by the goodnesse of the same haquebutters, or the bad|nesse of them, the Scots did not onelie not come downe to them, but also verie courteouslie gaue place, and fled to their fellowes. The armie went on, but so much the slowlier, bicause the waie was some|what narrow, by meanes of the Forth on the one side, and certeine marishes on the other. The Scots kept alwaies pase with them, till there were shot off two field peeces twise, wherewith there was a man killed, and the leg of one of their horsses striken off, which caused them to withdraw, so that the English|men saw no more of the [...], till they came to the place where they meant to incampe, for there they shewed themselues againe aloft on the fore remembred hill, EEBO page image 983 standing as it were to view and take muster of the armie: but when the lord Greie made towards them, minding to know their commission, they wiselie ment their waie, and would not once abide the rea|soning.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 Little else was doone that daie, but that George Ferrers, one of the duke of Summersets gentle|men, and one of the commissioners of the cariages in the armie, perceiuing where certeine Scots were got into a caue vnder the earth, stopping some of the vents, [...] and setting fire on the other, smothered them to death, as was thought it could be none other, by coniecture of the smoke breaking forth at some of the other vents. The English ships also taking their leaue from before Lieth, with a score of shot or more, and as they came by saluting the Scots in their campe also, with as manie, came and laie according to appointment. The armie hauing marched this daie about a fiue miles,Salt Preston. incamped at Salt Preston by the Forth. On fridaie the ninth of September, the English armie lieng in sight & view of the Sco|tish campe, that laie two miles or therabouts from them, had the Forth on the north, and the hill last re|membred on the south, the west end whereof is called Faurside Braie, [...] on the which standeth a sorie castell, and halfe a score houses of like worthinesse by it, and had westward before the Englishmen, the Scots li|eng in campe. About a mile from the English campe were the Scots horsemen verie busie, prank|ing vp and downe, & faine would haue béene a coun|sell with the Englishmens doings; who againe, bi|cause the Scots seemed to sit to receiue them, did di|ligentlie prepare that they might soone go to them, and therfore kept within their campe all that daie.

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