[1] [2] The king of Scots, hearing that the English ar|mie was returned, raised a power of fiftéene thou|sand men forth of all parts of his realme, vnder the guiding of the lord Maxwell (or rather of Oliuer Sincler, as the Scots affirme) boasting to tarrie as long in England,An armie of Scots inuade England. as the duke of Norffolke had tarried in Scotland. And so on fridaie being saint Katharins euen, they passed ouer the water of Eske, and burnt certeine houses of the Greues on the ve|rie border. Thomas bastard Dacres, with Iacke of Musgraue sent word to sir Thomas Wharton lord Warden for the king vpon the west marches, to come forward to succour them. But in the meane while the Scots entring verie fierclie, the aforesaid two valiant capteins, bastard Dacres and Mus|graue, manfullie set vpon the Scots with one hun|dred light horsses, and left a stale on the side of a hill, wherewith the Scots were woonderfullie dismaied, thinking that either the duke of Norffolke with his whole armie had béene come to those west marches,The error of the Scots. or that some other great power had beene comming against them, when they saw onelie sir Thomas Wharton with three hundred men marching forward toward them.The Scots flie. But so it fortuned at that time vn|doubtedlie, as God would haue it, that the Scots fled at the first brun [...], whome the Englishmen follo|wed, and tooke prisoners at their pleasure; for there was small resistance, or none at all shewed by the Scots.