Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the English part one Spanish haquebutter hurt,Englishmen [...]. and taken sir Rafe Bulmer knight, Thomas Gomer marshall of Berwike, and Robert Crouch, all capteins of seuerall bands of the English light horssemen, and men of right good courage and appro|ued seruice, & at this time distressed by their owne too much forwardnesse, and not by the enimies force. To conclude, of fiftéene hundred horssemen for skir|mish, and fiue hundred footmen to lie close in am|bush, and to be readie at néed, which came that mor|ning out of their campe, there returned not home a|boue seuen hundred, and diuerse of those sore hurt, and among other, the lord Hume himselfeThe lord Hume hurt with a fall in the chase. for hast in the flight, had a fall from his horsse, and burst the ca|nell bone of his necke, that he was faine to be caried streight to Edenborough, and finallie there departed this life of that hurt. So that it is true which C. O. saith, that in this skirmish manie a good rider was dismounted, their horsses with emptie saddles and loose bridles running vp hill and downe dale, as if they had beene starke mad, and to conclude (saith he)

—equi lapsurus inhaesit

Tergo alius summo tellurem vertice pulsans.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Then after this, the lord protector, and the earle of Warwike, and other of the councell, with a small gard, mounting vp the hill where the slaughter had beene made, about halfe a mile southeast from the Scotish campe, tooke full view therof, the plot where they laie, so chosen for strength, as in all their coun|trie (some thought) not a better, saue on the south by a great marish, & on the north by the Forth, which side they fensed with two field péeces, and certeine haque|butters a crooke, lieng vnder a turffe wall, Eden|borough on the west at their backes, and eastward betwéene the Englishmen and them stronglie defen|ded by the course of a riuer called Eske, running north into the Forth, which as it was not verie deepe of water, so were the bankes of it so high and stéepe, as a small sort of resistants might haue beene able to kéepe downe a great number of commers vp. About a twelue score from the Forth, ouer the same riuer, is there a stone bridge, which they did kéepe al|so well garded with ordinance.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the lord protector, and the earle of War|wike had viewed euerie thing, as they thought expe|dient, they returned home towards their campe, a|longst before the campe of the enimies, within lesse than two flight shoots, entring into a lane of thirtie foot bread, fensed on either side with a wall of turffe, an ell of heigth. The Scots did often shoot at them in the waie as they passed thus homewards, without hurt, sauing the killing of an horsse among thrée hundred, the rider escaping else harmelesse.A Scotish herald deliue|reth a message to the duke of Summerset. And as the dukes grace was passed welnie halfe the waie homewards, a Scotish herald with a cote of his princes armes vpon him (as the maner is) and with him a trumpetter, ouertooke them.