[1] [2] When these capteins and sage councellors being here assembled, vnderstood the manner of the nor|therne men, their number, and readinesse to battell, they first practised with great policie, to haue paci|fied the matter without bloudshedding: but the nor|therne men were so bent to mainteine their wilfull enterprise, that there was no hope to take vp the matter without battell: therefore a daie was set, on the which they should trie the quarrell bewixt them with dint of sword.The euen of Simon and Iude. But sée the chance. The night be|fore the daie assigned for this bloudie and vnnaturall battell, to haue béene fought betwixt men of one na|tion, and subiects to one king; there fell a raine not great to speake of, but yet as it were by miracle, the riuer of Dun rose suddenlie on such a height,A s [...]oud. that sel|dome had béene séene there the like hugenesse of wa|ter:Gods proui|dence staieth them from battell. so that the daie when the houre of battell should come, it was not possible for the one armie to come at the other, and so the appointment made betwéene both the armies for triall of the matter by force of armes, was by Gods good prouidence disappointed, and manie an innocent mans life preserued, that should haue died, if their purposes had taken place.