[1] Here is to be noted yt the engliſh fleete entring into the Fourth was ready to haue ayded ye ar|my by lande as occaſions might haue bene offe|red,The Lord ad|mirall of En|gland. but the Lord Admirall perceyuing no like|lyhood of battayle by lande, tooke vpon him to atchieue ſome other enterpriſes, and firſt com|ming to Brent Yland ſet certaine ſhippes a fire there, of the chiefeſt in the riuer, and ſaluting the towne of Leith as he paſſed by, with Canon ſhotte, he determined to lande ſome of his men on the North ſide of the Fourth, to make ſome ſpoyle within the countrey of Fife.The Laird of Dun. But Iohn Erſkin Land of Dun, as then ſomewhat diſea|ſed and returned home from the campe, cauſed ſuch dayly and nightly watche and warde to be kept, that this enterprice coulde not be ſo ſe|cretely cõueyed by the Engliſhmen, but that the ſame was perceyued, & ſo preuented,The Engliſh men repulſed at S. Meuettes. that vpon theyr landyng they were forced to retyre with loſſe, and happy was he that might firſt get a|gayne to ſhippeborde.