[1] [2] The vnaduised rashnesse of sir Thomas Palmer was thought to be the chiefe occasion of this distresse of those horssemen, who after they had doone suffici|entlie for that time, would needs haue them to giue a new charge, and so were discomfited. After this o|uerthrow and chase of our horssemen, the armie that was leuied to passe into Scotland was hasted for|ward with all spéed possible: for although before the comming of the English horssemen, the French,The French|men remooue their campe. vp|on aduertisement giuen that they meant to come, had plucked backe their great artillerie, and sent the same vnto Edenburgh, kéeping onelie with them six field-péeces, and herewith remooued their campe further off from the towne: yet by forestalling vitels and all other necessarie things from them within, they were driuen to such distresse, that they must of force haue left the towne to the enimies, if some pow|er had not come within a while to remooue the siege that laie thus to annoie them.