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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 21 of 24: Edward the sixt, sonne and successor to Henrie the eight.
Snippet: 61 of 359 (1587, Volume 6, p. 988)

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.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 21 of 24: Edward the sixt, sonne and successor to Henrie the eight.
Snippet: 62 of 359 (1587, Volume 6, p. 988)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 To conclude, considering the smalnesse of the Englishmens number, and shortnesse of the time (which was scant fiue houres, from one till well nigh six) the mortalitie was so great (as it was thought) the like afore time had not béene séene. One great cause whie the Englishmen spared so few of them,

The causes why so few Scots were taken.

The Scotish|mens vow.

was thought to be their tyrannous vow by them made (which the Englishmen certeinly heard of) that whensoeuer they fought and ouercame, they would kill so manie, and spare so few: a sure proofe whereof they plainelie had shewed at the first onset giuen, where they killed all, and saued not a man that came within their danger. An other respect was, to reuenge their great and cruell tyrannie shewed at Paniar hough,Paniar hough. where they slue the lord Euers, whome other|wise they might haue taken prisoner and saued, and cruellie killed as manie else of our men as came in|to their hands.The apparell of the Scots. An other occasion also was their ar|mor among them so little differing, all clad alike in iacks couered with white leather, doublets of the same, or of fustian, and most commonlie all white hosen, not one with either chaine, brooch, ring, or gar|ment of silke, vnlesse chains of latten drawne foure or fiue times along the vpper stocks, or to vse master Pattens words, the thighs of their hosen and doublet sleeues for cutting.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 21 of 24: Edward the sixt, sonne and successor to Henrie the eight.
Snippet: 63 of 359 (1587, Volume 6, p. 988)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This lacke for difference in apparell was the chief|est cause that so manie of their great men and gen|tlemen were killed, and so few saued. The outward shew, the resemblance or signe, whereby a stranger might discerne a poore man from a gentleman, was not among them to be séene: as for words and good|lie profers of great ransoms, were as rife in the mouths of the one as the other. And it came here to passe, that after at the examination and counting of the prisoners, there were found taken aboue twentie of their common countrie people, to one of their gentlemen, whome no man need to doubt the Eng|lishmen had rather haue spared than the other, if they could haue séene anie difference betweene them in taking. And yet verelie considering the case as it stood, the Englishmen shewed more grace, and tooke more to mercie, than the respects before mentioned might séeme to haue required.The earle [...] Huntleie [...]ken. For beside the earle of Huntleie, who in good armor appointed likest a gen|tleman of anie among them, but could not then e|scape bicause he lacked his horsse, and hapned to be taken by sir Rafe Uane, and beside the lord of Ye|ster, Hobbie Hambleton capteine of Dunbar,Other pris [...]ners taken the master of Sanpoole, the lard of Wimmes taken by Iohn Bren, a brother of the earle of Cassils, and be|sides one Montrell, taken by Cornelius comptrollor of the ordinance in the armie, and one Camals an Irish gentleman, and beside manie other Scotish gentlemen more, taken by diuerse others.

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