[1] Agaynſt whom came king Edward with an army of an hundred thouſand men:

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King Edwarde the third com|meth with an army agaynſt them.

of the which number there were (as Froiſſart hath) an eight thouſande horſemen, and .xxiiij. thouſande Ar|chers. If their comming into Northumberland, they might wel perceyue by the ſmoke of the fiers which the Scottes made in burning of villages, houſes, and townes, where the enimies were but yet bycauſe they taryed not long in a place, but paſſed on withoute ſoiourning here or there, the Engliſh men might not come neare to fight wyth them.