Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The sixtéenth of September the lard of Brimston a Scotish gentleman came to the dukes grace from EEBO page image 990 their counsell for cause of communication, and retur|ned againe to them, hauing with him Norreie an herald and king at armes of ours, who found them with the old quéene at Sterling.Sir Iohn Luttrell. S. Cooms ins kept with a garrison of Englishmen. On saturdaie the seauentéenth of September, sir Iohn Luttrell in the after noone departed toward saint Cooms ins, hauing with him an hundred harquebutters, fiftie pioners, & two row barks well furnished with muni|tion, and thrée score and ten mariners to remaine there, & kéepe that from inuasion of the enimies, a|gainst whom the English were so sharplie whetted, that when they came to incounter, they gaue proofe of their manhood by wounds and bloudshed, accor|ding to the report of C.O. in these verses following:
— Anglorum pectora MauorsBelliger exacüit, crescunt ad vulnera vires.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the time whilest the armie laie thus in the campe betwéene Lieth and Edenburgh, manie lards and gentlemen came in to the lord protector to require his protection, the which his grace to whome he thought good did grant.The earle of Bothwell. This daie came the earle of Bothwell to his grace, who hauing beene kept in prison by the gouernour, the night after the battell was set at libertie, and comming thus to the lord protector, was friendlie welcomed and interteined; and hauing this night supped with his grace, he de|parted.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Lieth was set on fire this saturdaie, whereas it was meant,Lieth burned. that there should haue beene but one house onelie burnt, belonging to one Barton that had plaid a slipperie part with the lord protector. But the soldiors being set a worke to fire that house, fired all the rest. Six great ships also that laie in the hauen, which for their age and decaie were not so apt for vse, were likewise set on fire and burnt. On sundaie the eightéenth of September, the lord pro|tector (for considerations moouing him to pitie) ha|uing all this while spared Edenburgh from hurt, did so leaue it, but Lieth and the ships burning, soone after seauen of the clocke in the morning, caused the campe to dislodge,The armie dislodged. and as they were raised and on foot, the castell shot off a peale, with chambers hard|lie and all, of foure and twentie péeces. Passing that daie seauen miles, they camped earlie for that night at Crainston by a place of the lard of Brimstons.