The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 298)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the same thursdaie, king Edward with his armie passed the riuer of Tweed, and so entring in|to Scotland,Berwike summoned. sent to the burgesses of Berwike, offe|ring them peace vpon certeine conditions, and staied a whole day for an answer: but when he could haue none that liked him, nor that sounded in anie thing to peace, he approched the towne, and lodged in the monasterie of Caldestreime. Abington. His armie consisted as some write of foure thousand men of armes on hors|backe, and thirtie thousand footmen, besides fiue hun|dred men of armes on horssebacke, and a thousand footmen of the bishoprike of Durham.The English fléet. At the same time, there came foure and twentie English ships, the mariners whereof, beholding where the English armie was placed in battell raie, vpon a plaine, the king making there certeine knights, they thought his meaning was to haue giuen forthwith an assalt, and so entring the hauen, and approching to the land, began to fight with the townesmen, where they lost foure of their ships, and were constreined to with|draw with the residue,Foure Eng|lish ships lost. with helpe of the falling wa|ter. Some haue written, that they lost but three ships which were consumed with fire, Abington. and that the mari|ners and souldiers of one of those ships, after they had defended themselues by great manhood from the first houre of the daie, till eleuen of the clocke, esca|ped awaie, some by the bote of that ship, and some lea|ping into the water, were saued by the botes of other ships that made in to succour them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The rumor of the mariners attempt being bru|ted through the armie, the king passing forward to|wards the towne, got ouer a ditch, which the Scots had cast to impeach his passage,

Berwike woone.

This sir Ri|chard Corne|wall was bro|ther to the erle of Cornewall. Abington.

and so comming to the towne, wan it, not losing any man of renowme, sauing sir Richard Cornewall, the which was slaine by a quarell which a Flemming shot out of a crosse|bowe, being in the red hall, which the merchants of Flanders held in that towne, and had fortified it in manner of a tower: but when they would not yéeld, and could not easilie otherwise be woone, the house towards euening was set on fire, and so they being thirtie in number, were burned to death within it. Upon the same night, the king lodged in the castell, which was yéelded vnto him by them that kept it, their liues and limmes saued, and receiuing an oth, that they should not from thencefoorth beare armour against the king of England, they were permitted to depart whither they thought good, their capteine sir William Dowglas excepted, whom the king still kept with him, Caxton. till the end of the warres. Some write that there should be slaine of Scotishmen at this winning of Berwike, aboue the number of twentie thousand men, Abington saith 8000, but Richard Southwell saith 15000 at the least one with an other, with small losse of Englishmen, not past eight and twentie of all sorts. Yée may read more hereof in the Scotish historie.

¶But before I passe ouer this slaughter, so lamenta|ble and woonderfull, Abraham Fleming. I haue bethought my selfe of a promised apologie for and in the behalfe of Richard Grafton, mentioned before in the reigne of Henrie the second, page 112. col. 1. where I shewed how vn|aduisedlie and with vnseemelie modestie for a man of learning, George Buchanan the Scot dooth shoot his bolts at the said Grafton, as now by occasion of the matter conuenientlie occurrent shall be shewed. The said Grafton in his large volume of English chroni|cles, falling vpon the affaires betwéene king Ed|ward the first, and Iohn Balioll king of Scotland, among other things there remembred, R. Grafton, pag. 176. maketh re|port that in the said battell of Berwike, the slaugh|ter was so great, that a mill might well haue béene driuen by the space of two daies, with the streames of bloud which at that time ouerranne the ground. At which words George Buchanan giueth a snatch, G. Buchanan rer. Scotic. [...] 8. pag. 243. [...] finem em|boldened so to doo, bicause the said Grafton referreth this record to Hector Boetius in his fourteenth booke and second chapter.