Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Sundrie shifts, some shrewd, some sorie, made they in their running: diuerse of them in their cour|ses, as they were ware they were pursued but of one, would suddenlie start backe, and lash at the legs of the horsse, or foine him in the bellie, and sometime did they reach at the rider also, whereby Clement Paston in the arme, and diuerse in other parts of their bodies otherwise in this chase were hurt. Some other laie flat in a furrow as they were dead, there|by past by of the Englishmen vntouched, and (as was reported) the earle of Angus confessed he cou|ched in that sort till his horsse hapt to be brought him.The earle of Angus. Other some were found to staie in the riuer, couring downe his bodie vnder the root of some willow tree, with scant his nose aboue water for breath. Some for lightnesse cast awaie shoos and doublets, and ran in their shirts, and some were séene in this race all breathlesse to fall flat downe, and haue run them|selues to death.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Before this, at the time of the onset, which the English horssemen gaue, there came eastward fiue hundred of the Scotish horsmen vp along this Fau [...]|side braie, streight vpon the English ordinance and cariage. The lord protector (as yée haue heard) most speciallie for doubt hereof, placing himselfe by the same, caused a péece or two to be turned toward them, with a few shots whereof they were soone tur|ned EEBO page image 988 also and fled to Daketh. But had they kept on their purpose, they were prouided for accordinglie. For one parson Keble a chapleine of his graces,Parson Keble one of the lord protectors chapleins. and two or thrée other, by and by discharged foure or fiue of the carts of munition, and therewith bestowed pikes, billes, bowes and arrowes, to as manie as came; so that of carters and other, there were soone weaponed about a thousand, whome parson Keble and the other did verie handsomlie dispose in arraie, and made a pretie muster.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 To returne now after this notable strewing of their footmens weapons, began a pitifull sight of the dead corpses,The maner of the slaughter. lieng dispersed abrode, some their legs off, some but hought, and left lieng halfe dead, some thrust quite through the bodie, others their necks halfe a sunder, manie their heads clouen, with other thousand kinds of killing. After that, and further in chase all for the most part killed, either in the head, or in the necke, for the horssemen could not well reach them lower with their swords. And thus with bloud and slaughter of the enimie, this chase was continu|ed fiue miles in length, westward from the place of their standing, which was in the fallow fields of Un|dreske, vntill Edenburgh parke, and well nigh to the gates of the towne it selfe, and vnto Lith, and in breadth nie foure miles, from the Forth sands vp to|ward Daketh southwards: in all which space, the dead bodies laie as thicke as a man may note cattell grasing in a full replenished pasture.The number of Scots slaine. The riuer ran all red with bloud (a signe of great slaughter) so that in the same chase were slaine to the number of ten thousand men, some saie aboue fouretéene thousand, as I doo find by this report concerning the battell:

Millia bis septem sunt morte absumpta Scotorum,

Caetera pars certam quaerit fugiendo salutem.