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Compare 1587 edition: 1 On the ſame maner,The firſt com+ming of friers minors. aboute the ſelfe ſame time, were ſent into Scotlande, aſwell as into all other partes of the chriſtian world, Friers minors of Saint Frances his order.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Many of them alſo, after his deceaſſe fell to diſſolute liuing, keeping no ſuch ſtrayte rules, as both he preſcribed, and alſo obſerued.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But now to returne to the reſidue of the Hy|ſtorie: the Scottiſh people enioyed peace a long time after the appeaſing of the trouble in Cath|nes,The death of Alane Lord of Galloway. till time that Alane Lorde of Galloway and Coneſtable of Scotland departed out of this life, and for that hee had deuided his landes be|fore his death amongſt his three daughters, hys baſtard ſonne gathered an army of ten thouſande men,His Baſtarde ſonne rayſeth a commotion. in hope to attaine the poſſeſſion of Gallo|way by force of armes: but at length, after hee had wrought much ſcaith in the countrey by his violent inuaſion, he was ſlaine with fiue thou|ſande of thoſe that tooke his part,The Earle of March. by the Earle of Marche, and Walter Stewarde of Dune|walde, whiche was ſent agaynſte him wyth a power.

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