[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] There were gentlemen present that knowing as they tooke it for certeine, how Newton was the offendor (although fortune had fauoured him in the combat) would gladlie haue ventured their liues a|gainst him man for man, if it might haue béene granted: but he chalenging the law of armes, had it granted by my lord Greie,Newton re|warded by my lord Greie. who gaue him also his owne gowne beside his owne backe, and a chaine of gold which he then ware. Thus was he well rewar|ded how so euer he deserued:Newton [...] by his aduersaries. but he escaped not so, for afterwards as he was riding betwixt the borders of both the realms, he was slaine and cut in péeces. On the fourth of Iune, the towne of Dawketh was burnt, and the castell woone by force, where fourteene Scots were slaine, and three hundred taken priso|ners, amongst whome were these men of name; the maister of Morton, son in law to sir George Dow|glasse, the lard of Blengaruie, the lard of Wedder|burne, and one Alexander Hume, a man of good re|putation among them. The same daie the English horssemen burnt all the mils round about Eden|burgh, within the compasse of six miles on each side the towne. The seuenth of Iune they burnt Muskel|burgh.Muskel|burgh burnt. Now after that my lord Greie had fortified Hadington, and furnished it with vittels, and mu|nitions sufficient, the twelfe of Iune he departed from thence homewards, leauing there in garrison about two thousand footmen, and fiue hundred horsse|men.