[1] Kyng Oſbert purpoſed to haue paſſed the water of Forth, that wayes to haue entered in|to to Fyfe, and ſo ouer Tay into Angus: but hea|ring that the Scottes had gathered a power to impeache his paſſage, he ſtayed certayne dayes. At length vnderſtanding that the enimies were nothing of that puiſſaunce nor number, as at the firſt they were reported to bee, he determined to ſet ouer in certaine boates ten thouſand of his men, but through a ſodaine tempeſt of winde and weather, that roſe in that inſtant,A great many of Engliſhmen drowned. there were fiue thouſande of them drowned, the reſidue be|ing conſtrayned to lande agayne on the ſame ſide from the whiche they lewſed, hauing loſ [...]e through violence of the weather all theyr ta [...]le and whole furniture of theyr veſſels.