[1] [2] [3] [4] When they had searched euerie where by the coast, and saw men still readie to receiue them with bat|tell, they turned sterne, and so got them home againe without anie act atchiued woorthie to be mentioned. The number of the Frenchmen was great,The number [...] the French [...]. so that diuerse of them that were taken prisoners in the Ile of Wight, and in Sussex, did report that they were thrée score thousand. The French king aduertised the emperor most vntrulie by letters, that his armie had gotten the Ile of Wight with the ports of Ham|ton, and Portesmouth, and diuerse other places. In August following,The earle of Hertford fo [...]|ra [...]th the middle mar|ches of Scot|land. the earle of Hertford entered a|gaine into Scotland with twelue thousand men, and destroied all the townes in the middle marches, bur|ned Coldingham abbeie, and passed to the west mar|ches, sore annoieng and indamaging the Scots, and yet neither they, nor the Frenchmen that were sent into Scotland this yeare to the aid of the Scots, vn|der the leading of monsieur de Lorges, Montgome|rie his father, durst once come foorth into the field to incounter with him.