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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The prisoners reckoned in the marshals booke were numbred to aboue fiftéene hundred.The numbe [...] of the priso|ners. Touching the slaughter, sure they killed not so manie, as for the time & oportunitie they might, if they had minded crueltie.The lord pro [...]tector not des [...]rous of slaughter. For the lord protector mooued with pitie at the sight of the dead bodies, and rather glad of victo|rie than desirous of slaughter, soone after (by gesse) fiue of the clocke, staid the standard of his horssemen at the furthest part of their campe westward, & cau|sed the trumpets to sound a retreat. Whereat also sir Rafe Sadler treasuror (whose great diligence at that time,Sir Rafe Sadler. and readie forwardnesse in the chiefest of the fraie before, did woorthilie merit no small commen|dation) caused all the footmen to staie; and then with much trauell & great paine made them to be brought in some order againe: which was a thing not easilie doone, by reason they all as then were somewhat bu|sie in applieng their market,The spoile [...] the Scotish campe. the spoile of the Scotish campe, where was found good prouision of white bread, ale, otencaks, otemeale, mutton, butter in pots, chéese, and in diuerse tents good wine also, and in some tents among them was found some siluer plate and chalices, which with good deuotion ye maie be sure were plucked out of their cold clowts, and thrust into their warme bosoms.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The plot of their campe called Edmonston edge, nigh Gilberton a place of the lord of Brimstons, halfe a mile beyond Muskelburgh, and foure miles on this side Edenburgh, occupied in largenesse with diuerse tents and tenticles, that stood in sundrie pla|ces out of square, about a miles compasse, wherein as the Englishmen vpon the sound of the retreat somewhat assembled, they all with a lowd and entire outcrie and hallowing, in signe of gladnesse and vic|torie, made an vniuersall noise and showt,A showt [...] signe of vic|torie. the shril|nesse whereof (as after was reported) was heard vn|to Edenburgh. It was a woonder to sée, but (as they saie) manie hands make light woorke, how soone the dead bodies were stripped out of their garments starke naked, euen from as farre as the chase went, vnto the place of the onset, whereby the personages of the enimies might by the waie easilie be viewed and considered,The featur [...] of the Sco|tishmens p [...]sonages. the which for the talnesse of their sta|ture, cleannesse of skin, bignesse of bone, with due proportion in all parts was such, as the beholders, if they had not séene it, would not haue beleeued that there had béene so many of that sort in all their coun|trie. Among them laie manie priests, and kirk|men, as they call them,Priests o [...] kirkmen. of whome it was bruted that there was a whole band of thrée or foure thou|sand, but it was found afterwards not to be altogi|ther so.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Among other banners, standards, and penno [...]s, a banner of white sarsenet was found, vnder which it was said these kirkmen came,A baner [...] papists [...]|uise. wherevpon was painted a woman with hir haire about hir shoul|ders, knéeling before a crucifix, & on hir right hand a church, after that written in great Romane letters, EEBO page image 989 Afflictae sponsae ne obliuiscaris. It was said that this was the abbat of Dunfirmlings banner, but whether it was his or the bishop of Dunkels, the gouernours brother, who (as was said) were both in the field, his meaning was, [...] was [...] signifi [...]| [...] and mea| [...]g of the [...] so [...]. to signifie that the church made inter|cession to Christ hir husband, not now to forget hir his spouse, being at that time afflicted and persecuted by the Englishmen. But whose deuise soeuer it was, it maie séeme, that this church comming thus to bat|tell, full appointed with weapon, and garded with such a sort of deacons to fight, howsoeuer in pain|ting he had set hir out, a man might well thinke, that in condition, he had rather framed hir like a curst queane, that would plucke hir husband by the pate, except she had hir will; than like a meeke spouse, that went about humblie by submission and praier to de|sire hir husbands helpe, for redresse of things amisse.

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