[1] In the meane time,1560 there was an army pre|pared in England, of ſeauen or eight thouſande men, who were ſent into Scotland,A Engliſhe ar|mye. the Lorde Grey of Englande beeing appointed generall, who came to the Linkes, beſide the Towne of Leith, on Saterday the ſixth of Aprill: before they pight downe their field on the ſaid Linkes, Monſieur Martigues, coronell of the Frenche army, iſſued forthe of Leith, with nine hundred Harquebuſiers of Frenchmen, to a little knolle,They were backed wyth a fiue. C. pikes whiche kepte aloofe. called the Halke hil, where a ſore continual and hote ſkirmiſh was begun betwixt the Engliſh|men [figure appears here on page 491] and Frenchmen, with hagbuttes, caliuers, and piſtoletz, which ſkirmiſh continued fyue or ſixe houres, in the whiche there were manye ſlayne on both parties, and diuers hurte. At length. Martigues was forced with his cõpa|ny to retire backe to the Towne of Leith, and the Engliſhmẽ pight downe their Campe, and planted their ordinance beſide the ſaid hill.