The Holinshed Texts (1577, Volume 2, p. 389)

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Engliſh men fetch booties [...] of Scot|lande.

The Engliſh borderers of the weſt Marches fetched a great bootie of cattell out of Scotlande, notwithſtanding the truce, in reuenge whereof, the Scots inuading England, waſted the coun|trey, burnt townes and villages, ſlue the people, and with a great praye of priſoners, goodes, and cattel,The S [...]ntes made Eng|lande. returned home into Scotland. Herewith followed dayly rodes and forrayes made on both ſides betwixt the Scottes and Engliſh men, and that with ſuch rage and crueltie, that a great part of Cumberland was in maner layde waſt: for on that ſide the Scots chiefly made their inuaſions, bycauſe that from thence the firſt occaſion of all this miſchiefe might ſeeme to haue had the begin|ning. Whẽ ſuch things were certified to the king of Englandes counſell, an army was appointed forthwith to inuade Scotlãd, vnder y^e leading of the Earle of Northumberland,A knight na|med Magnus. & of one Magnus ſurnamed redbeard, a captain of great experience, as he that had bene trayned vp from his youth in the warres of Fraunce. The Scottes bycauſe of his long red beard, called him in ſcorne and deri|ſion, Magnus with the red mane.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scottes hearing of the approch of thys armie towarde theyr borders,The Earle of Ormont gene|ral of the Scot|tiſh armie. leuyed a power: Georg, or rather Hugh Dowglas Earle of Or|mont by the kings commiſſion, hauing the con|duction thereof, who vnderſtanding that the eni|mies woulde enter into Anna [...]dale, drew thither with the ſayd army to reſiſt their attempts.The Engliſh armie inua|deth Scotland. The Engliſh men paſſing ouer the riuer of Sulwey & Anna [...]de, came to another riuer called Sarc, and there pight downe their tentes. And on the next day they began to robbe and ſpoyle the countrey on eche ſyde: but aduertiſed that the Scots were at hande with an army, they that were thus gone forth, were with all ſpeede called barke to the campe by ſounde of trumpet, and forthwith theyr army was brought into order [...]f battail. Magnus with the red mane was appoynted to leade the EEBO page image 390 right wing,Sir Iohn Pen+ [...]eynton. and ſir Iohn Penneynton a right ſkilfull warriour gouerned the left wing in the which the Welchmen were placed. The bat|taile or middle warde, the Earle of Northum|berlande himſelfe ruled.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Earle of Ormonte on the other ſyde ordered his battailes in this wiſe: He appointed a right valiant knight called Wallace of Craggy,Wallace of Craggy. with an hardie number of ſouldiers to encounter with Magnus. And agaynſt the Welchmen he placed the Lord Maxwel, & Lard Iohnſton, with a choſen cõpanie of luſtie Scottiſh men, and cõ|maunding himſelf in the battail or middle ward, had vneth ſet his people in aray, when the trum|pets in the Engliſh armie began to ſounde to the battaile.The Earle of Ormont ex|horteth his armie. He therfore exhorting his men to do va|liantly, put them in remembrance that they had put on armor, being thereto prouoked by iniu [...] which their enimies had firſt offred them, where|vpon they might conceiue good hope of victory by the fauour of the righteous God, who giueth the vpper hãd (for the moſt part) to that ſide that hath iuſt cauſe to make warre. He willed them then to put all feare out of their heartes, and as they had force ynough to vãquiſh their enimies that came thus to brag & threaten them with vtter deſtruc|tion: ſo he beſought them to ſhewe no leſſe man|like ſtomacks to deliuer theyr countrey by hardie fight from iniurie of the ſame enimies.