Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now, whereas in this meane time we haue spoken nothing of the dooings in Scotland, where the warre was still continued, the king of France sent thither certeine bands of Frenchmen, vnder the gouernement of monsieur de Lorges,Monsieur de Lorges sent into Scot|land with cer|teine French bands. to aid the Scots against the Englishmen; and the king of En|gland waged manie strangers, and sent them with certeine Englishmen to the borders, for defense of the same against the inuasions of the enimies: for after the arriuall of the Frenchmen, a great armie of Scots was raised, and approched néere to the bor|ders, where for a certeine time they incamped, so that manie thought some notable enterprise would haue béene attempted. But after they had laine in campe a certeine time, they brake vp, and departed without attempting anie further exploit.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Shortlie after the earle of Hertford lieng on the borders, as lieutenant of the north parts of Eng|land,The earle of Hertford in|uadeth Scot|land. calling to him an armie of twelue thousand men, or thereabouts, what of Englishmen and stran|gers, entred Scotland with the same, and burnt a great part of the Mers, and Teuidale, as Kelsaie ab|beie and the towne; Melrosse abbeie & Driborne ab|beie, also Iedworth abbeie, and diuerse other places, townes, and villages, to the number of fiue score. Kelsaie abbeie was defended a while by thrée hun|dred Scots, but in the end the most part of them were slaine, & taken by the strangers and others that gaue the assault. Thus the earle of Hertford sore in|damaged the Scots by this inuasion, and yet neither they, nor the Frenchmen their assistants, dur [...] come foorth into the field once to incounter with him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the sixtéenth of September a number of EEBO page image 970 Scots and Frenchmen attempted to enter into England on the east borders. But the Englishmen perceiuing them about to passe by a certeine streict, set vpon them, and slue and tooke of them to the num|ber of seuen score. Among the prisoners that were taken, the lord of Humes sonne, and a French cap|teine were accompted chiefest. Also in another rode made into the west borders, the lord Maxwels sonne, and diuerse others were taken.Ouerthrowes on both sides, betwixt the English and Scots. But at an other time about the same season also, certeine Englishmen to the number of fiue hundred, making their entrie by the west borders into Scotland, were discomfited by the Scots, and the more part of them either taken or slaine. Thus were they occupied as well on the bor|ders betwixt England and Scotland, in this season, as also in the marches of Calis, Guisnes, and Bul|lognois, where the garrisons lieng in those places, made continuall rodes & forraies into the marches of the enimies countrie, and oftentimes chanced to incounter with some of their troops.