Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe two hardie chieftaynes aſſembling an armie of .xx. thouſande men,They inuade Northum|berlande. or as ſome writers haue .xxv. thouſande, entred with the ſame into Northumberlande, waſting and ſpoyling the countrey on eche ſide.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Agaynſt whom came king Edward with an army of an hundred thouſand men:
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King Edwarde the third com|meth with an army agaynſt them.
of the which number there were (as Froiſſart hath) an eight thouſande horſemen, and .xxiiij. thouſande Ar|chers. If their comming into Northumberland, they might wel perceyue by the ſmoke of the fiers which the Scottes made in burning of villages, houſes, and townes, where the enimies were but yet bycauſe they taryed not long in a place, but paſſed on withoute ſoiourning here or there, the Engliſh men might not come neare to fight wyth them.