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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This night the Englishmen with great gladnesse and thanksgiuing to God (as good cause they had) a|bout seauen of the clocke pitched their campe at Edgebuckling braie, beside Pinkerslough, and a mile beyond the place they camped at before. Now after the battell, among other questions, one was mooued who killed the first man that daie in the field, the glorie whereof one Ieronimo an Italian would gladlie haue had,Ieronimo an Italian. a gentleman sure that had serued that daie right valiantlie: howbeit it was after well tried,Cutbert Musgraue. that Cutbert Musgraue, a gentleman of the earle of Warwiks, deserued the praise of killing the first enimie that died that daie, who right hardilie slue a guner at his péece in the Scots fore-ward, yer euer they began anie whit to turne. As for the ordi|narie soldiors, it was a pleasure vnto them to make rehearsall of their aduentures past, and to record what dangers (in maner ineuitable) they had esca|ped, according to the poets report in that case, saieng:

—res est meminisse laboris
Praeteriti iucunda: grau [...] effugisse peri lum
Summa recordari secura mente voluptas.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The next daie being sundaie the eleuenth of Sep|tember, somewhat before noone, the armie remooued, & marching along the Forth side toward Lieth about three of the clocke in the after noone pitched their field, a pricke shot on this side that towne on the southeast halfe, somewhat shadowed from Eden|burgh by a hill, but yet the most part of it laie with|in the full sight and shot of the castell there,The Eng|lish armie in|campeth by Lieth. and in di|stance somewhat aboue a quarter of a mile. The lord marshall, and the most part of the horssemen wer [...] bestowed and lodged in the towne of Lieth. The dukes grace, the lord lieutenant, and the rest of the armie in the campe. On tuesdaie the thirteenth of September, the smaller vessels of the English flée [...] burned Kinkorne, and a towne or two standing on the north shore of the Forth against Lieth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the after noone the dukes grace rowed vp the Forth a six or seuen miles westward, as it runneth into the land, and tooke in his waie an Iland there called saint Cooms ins,S. Cooms ins. which lieth foure miles be|yond Lieth, and a good waie neerer the north shore than the south, yet not within a mile of the néerest. It is but halfe a mile about, and had in it an abbeie, but the moonks were gone: fresh water inough, and store of conies, and is so naturallie strong, that but by one waie it can be entred; the plot whereof the lord protector considering, did quicklie cast to haue it kept, whereby all traffike of merchandize, all com|modities else comming by the Forth into their land, and vtterlie the whole vse of the Forth it selfe, with all the hauens vpon it, should quite be taken from them.

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