Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this, the realme continued in peace cer|taine yeares,A bande of theeues. till it chaunced a great number of theeues and robbers aſſembling themſelues togi|ther at Cocbourne pethes, did much hurt by rob|bing and ſpoyling the people in the countreys of Mers:Patrike Dun|bar vanqui|ſheth the thee|ues and rob|bers of the countrey. and Louthian howbeit at length one Pa|tryke Dunbar of Dunbar, by commaundement of the king fought with them, ſlue their captaine, with ſix hundred of his companie, and tooke four|ſcore priſoners, the which he cauſed to be hanged. And thus hauing deliuered the countrey of thoſe pyllers, with loſſe of fortie of his owne men, hee returned to the king, with the head of the captain of that route,Patrike Dun|bar Earle of March. ſo that for his manhood herein ſhe|wed, he was made by the king Earle of March, and for the maintenaunce of his eſtate, had the landes of Cocbourne pethes, giuen to him and his heyres for euer, vpon this condition, that in tymes comming, the Earles of March ſhoulde purge Mers and Lonthian of all theeues and robbers. In memorie whereof,The heade of a theefe or fel|lon giuen in armes. hee was com|maunded to beare in his armes a fellons heade ſprinckled with bloud.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Shortly after he got knowledge, howe there were certaine Gentlemen that had conſpired to a ſlea him,conſpiracie. and therefore taking occaſion to goe a hunting where this act ſhould haue bene execu|ted, he calleth the chiefe authour of the conſpiracie apart into a certaine valley, which was cloſed on euery ſide with thick woods, and there brake the matter vnto him, in reprouing him right ſharply, for that hee had ſo trayterouſly conſpired hys death, whoſe preſeruation hee ought chieflye to haue wiſhed, conſidering the manifolde benefites he had receyued at his handes.The manly courage of K. Malcolme. And herewith lea|ping from his horſe, drew his ſword, commaun|ding the other likewiſe to draw his, that [...] ha|uing conuenient time and place thereto, they might trie the matter betwixt them, who ſhould be thought moſt worthie of life, by ope [...] force of knightly prowes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The conſpirator hearing theſe wordes, as a man altogither aſtoniſhed, fell downe vpon hys knees at the kings feete, beſeeching his grace of mercie for his wicked purpoſe and haynous of|fence, who ſeeing him thus penitent, bad him a|riſe, and ſayde, I am content hereupon to forgiue thee, ſo that thou be not of counſell hereafter in a|ny ſuch trayterous practiſe.