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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 After them followed the companie of sir Robert Constable, their sergeant maior of thrée hundred EEBO page image 1217 shot, and the companie of sir Thomas Maners of two hundred shot. Lastlie marched foorth capteine Iohn Constable, and capteine Barwike with two hundred armed men. These twelue hundred footmen with fiue ensignes marched that night to Colding|ham. Also for the better assurance of couenants and promises made on the behalfe of such lords of Scotland,Hostages de|liuered by the Scotish lords on the kings side. as had made sute for this aid to be sent in|to their countrie for their assistance against them of the contrarie faction, there were certeine ho|stages sent into England by the same lords as it was thought expedient, for doubt of double dea|ling. The twelfe of Maie, they marched forward, and the same daie sir William Drurie, the earle of Lennox, and the other new made knights, with the horssemen, departed from Barwike, and at the Péece néere to Dunglas they ouertooke the footmen, and the same night all the horssemen and footmen came and incamped togither at Dunbar,The horsmen and footmen incampe at Dunbar. being in all not past sixtéene hundred men. They had foure field peeces with them, & good store of powder. The next day being the thirtéenth of Maie, and Whit|sun euen, they made such spéed in their march, that they came vnto Edenburgh, where they found the earles of Morton,Scotish lords of the kings side. Mar, Glencarne, the lords Rith|wen, Lindseie, Simple, Glames, Methuen, Ogil|tre, and Catcart, with diuerse other gentlemen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Héere also they vnderstood that the duke of Cha|tellerault and his partakers were departed from Lithquo, whither they were retired backe againe from Edenburgh, on knowledge had that the Eng|lishmen were comming forwards towards them. The fouretéenth and fiftéenth day they laie still in E|denburgh, and the morrow after being the sixtéenth of that moneth, they marched forwards to Lithquo, and lodged in that towne that night, where they re|ceiued aduertisements that the said duke of Chatel|lerault had broken vp his campe,The duke of Chatellerault breaketh vp his campe. after he had vpon his departure from the said towne of Lithquo at|tempted the winning of the castell of Glasco, & mis|sing his purpose there, was driuen to retire with dis|honour. The next morning being wednesdaie, the armie marched forwards, and the footmen laie that night at a place called Faukirke, a six miles from Lithquo: but the generall with the horssemen rode six miles further vnto Sterling, where they saw the yoong king.The yoong king at Sterling. The next daie being the eightéenth of Maie, sir Robert Constable, Sargent Maior, with the rest of the capteins of the twelue hundred Eng|lish footmen, & two hundred Scots footmen, the which were most part shot, marched a long iourneie, and came to lodge that night at Glasco, and the generall sir William Drurie came to them with the horsse|men, and the most part of the noble men of Scotland that were on the kings side, which entred the towne and lodged in the same, with manie horssemen and footmen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The duke of Chatellerault (as ye haue heard) had beene there, and besieged the castell that belonged to the king, but hearing of the Englishmens comming two daies before their approching thither, he raised his siege, and departed thence, with the losse of nine and twentie of his men. The nineteenth of Maie, sir William Drurie generall of the English power, being determined aforehand on a iourneie towards Dunbreton, sent foorth that morning before certeine vantcurrours on horssebacke, to staie all such as they found vpon the waie. This doone, he tooke with him certeine gentlemen,The generall goeth to view Dunbreton. and some shot, and rode foorth to|wards Dunbreton, to view the straits and situation of that castell, within the which were at that present the lord Fleming, that tooke vpon him as capteine thereof, the archbishop of saint Andrewes, and other their adherents, fréends to the duke of Chatellerault, and enimies to the lords that were about the king.

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