[1] Thus haue I béene more large in this matter concerning the siege of Leith,Whie this historiogra|pher is so large in the description of this siege of Leith. than may be thought peraduenture necessarie, sith the thing is yet fresh in memorie: but bicause there came to my hands cer|teine notes of one or two persons that were there present, and for helpe of their owne memories wrote the same, I haue thought it not impertinent to insert the effect of them, that the same may serue to further those that hereafter shall write the historie of this time more at large, sith my purpose is not to conti|nue the same otherwise than I find things noted in the abridgements of Iohn Stow and Richard Graf|ton: except in some recitall of expeditions and iour|nies made, as this, and other into Scotland, and that same of the right honourable the earle of Warwike into Normandie, which I haue thought good to in|large, according to such notes as haue come to my hand, beseeching the readers to accept the same in good part: and if anie thing be omitted, either in this place or anie other, that were as necessarie to be spo|ken of, as those points which I haue touched, or after|wards may touch, to impute the fault to the want of good instructions, and not to anie negligence or lacke of good will in me to aduance euerie mans worthie dooings according to his merits.