The chronicle of Ihon Hardyng in metre, fro[m] the first begynnyng of Engla[n]de, vnto ye reigne of Edwarde ye fourth where he made an end of his chronicle. And from yt time is added with a co[n]tinuacion of the storie in prose to this our tyme, now first emprinted, gathered out of diuerse and sondrie autours of moste certain knowelage [et] substanciall credit, yt either in latin orels in our mother toungue haue writen of ye affaires of Englande.

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¶ Howe kyng Edward laied siege to Barwyke and for sooke the siege and went South, for Robert Bruys had destroyed mikell of Yorkshire, & discomfited y^t ar¦chebishop of Yorke & his clergy, at Milton on swale

THe kyng Edward began to siege Berwyk like And wonne it had, but false tales it let And tidinges newe, y^t nought the kyng did

For Robert Bruys, the kyng of Scotlande mette With the bishop of Yorke, and hym ouersette Wherfore he loste the siege, and went awaye But Bruys had stroyed England in fell araye

¶ To Borough brydge, by east and west he brent And home agayne, with many a prysoner Without harme or lette of his entent With mykell good, but in Myton medowe nere To Swale water, laye then with great power Walter Wareyn among the hay kockes bushed Vpon the byshop sodenly with Scottes yssued

¶ And .xv. hundreth Englyshe there he slewe And home he went, with kyng Edward full glad With prysoners many, mo then men knewe The byshop fled fro the felde full woo bestad With his clerkes, that then were full mad For whiche therle Thomas, of Lancastre there And kyng Edward, depatted halfe in werre.