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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The lord protector and the councell sitting in con|sultation, the capteines and officers prouiding their b [...]nds, store of vittels, and furniture of weapons, for furtherance whereof our vessels of munition and vittels were here alreadie come to the shore. The Scots continued their brauerie on the hill, the which the Englishmen not being so well able to beare, made out a band of light horssemen, and a troope of demilances to backe them: the Englishmen and strangers that serued among them, got vp aloft on the hill, and thereby of euen ground with the enimie rode streight toward them with good spéed and order, whom at the first the Scots did boldlie countenance and abide: but after, when they perceiued that our men would néeds come forward, they began to pricke, and would faine haue béene gone, yer they had told their errand.The Scots [...]ssemen discomfited and put to flight But the Englishmen hasted so spéedilie after, that euen streight they were at their elbowes, and did so stoutlie then bestirre them, that what in the onset at the first, and after in the chase, which lasted a thrée miles welnie to as far as the fur|thest of their campe on the south side, they had killed of the Scots within a thrée houres, aboue the num|ber of thirtéene hundred,Scots slaine. Prisoners taken. and taken the maister of Hume, the lords Humes sonne and heire, two priests and six gentlemen, whereof one by sir Iaques Gra|nado, and all vpon the highest and welaéere nighest of the hill toward the Scots, within the full sight of their whole campe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the English part one Spanish haquebutter hurt,Englishmen [...]. and taken sir Rafe Bulmer knight, Thomas Gomer marshall of Berwike, and Robert Crouch, all capteins of seuerall bands of the English light horssemen, and men of right good courage and appro|ued seruice, & at this time distressed by their owne too much forwardnesse, and not by the enimies force. To conclude, of fiftéene hundred horssemen for skir|mish, and fiue hundred footmen to lie close in am|bush, and to be readie at néed, which came that mor|ning out of their campe, there returned not home a|boue seuen hundred, and diuerse of those sore hurt, and among other, the lord Hume himselfeThe lord Hume hurt with a fall in the chase. for hast in the flight, had a fall from his horsse, and burst the ca|nell bone of his necke, that he was faine to be caried streight to Edenborough, and finallie there departed this life of that hurt. So that it is true which C. O. saith, that in this skirmish manie a good rider was dismounted, their horsses with emptie saddles and loose bridles running vp hill and downe dale, as if they had beene starke mad, and to conclude (saith he)

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