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Parish of Branxton

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Continued the fighting men, in battle array
followed, with the King & his nobility
on horseback near them; the spoils
and provisions were speedily removed,
and fire being applied to the litter
and refuse left behind, the Smoke
thereof, born by the wind, floated
densely away between the two Armies.
Natural wood at that time skirted all the lower parts of the Valley, at the
bottom of which was a morass of considerable length, where the slender
stream of Pallinsburn now flows, and when the Admiral with his
forces crossed a small Brook there named Sandyford which a man
might step over. here the Admiral halted. Speedily the Earl
Came up with the rearward, until the Battalions, though
within a Bow-shot apart, were nearly in a line with each other.
they moved together onwards with their faces to the south,
the Artillery being still placed in due order before and
between the columns. At length arriving within range.

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