[1] This daie the Englishmen set fire in diuerse parts of the towne, but they had not leasure to mainteine it, by reason of the smoke rising and troubling them so extremelie, that no great hurt could be doone that daie, for that the night also came on, and so they de|parted backe againe to their campe at Lith. But the next daie, a certeine number of Englishmen vnder the leading of doctor Leigh, went againe to Eden|burgh, and did what they could, vtterlie to destroie the whole towne with fire, and so continued all that daie & the two daies next following. During all this violence offered by the English to the enimie, & no|thing left but despaire of life, the women and chil|dren beholding this desolation, made such outragi|ous exclamations and wofull lamentations, that heauen it selfe rang with their noise, as verie pi|thilie is described by Chr. O. in his report, saieng:

Foeminei sexus gemitus ad sydera grandi

Tolluntur strepitu, puerorum clamor in auras,

Nil nisi triste fuit, faciésque miserrima rerum.