[1] These gaue the onset so fiercelie at the beginning, that the victorie rested doubtfull a certeine time,The second battell at S. Albons. so that if the easterne and southerne men had conti|nued as they began, the field had beene theirs; but af|ter they had stood to it a pretie while, and perceiued none of their fellowes from the great armie to come and assist them, they began to faint, and turning their backes, fled amaine ouer hedge and ditch,The [...] part [...] through thicke and thin, woods and bushes, séeking so to escape the hands of their cruell enimies that followed them with eger minds, to make slaughter vpon them, namelie, the northern prickers, now in the chace pur|sued most hotlie, and bare downe manie, and more had doone, if the night comming vpon, had not staied them.