Compare 1587 edition: 1 The greate power of the Cumyns.The houſe of the Cumyns was in thoſe dayes of great power within the Realme, both in multitude of ofſpring, riches, landes, poſſeſſi|ons and manrent.Thirtie and two knights of one ſur|name. There were at the ſame time to the number of .xxxij. knightes of that ſurname within the realme, all men of fayre poſſeſſions and reuenues.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But as if often happeneth that men of great poſſeſſions and dominion are had in ſuſpition with the Prince,The height of great families the cauſe of|tentimes of their fall. whereby the ſame is for the more part the cauſe of their ruine and fall, ſpeci|ally when they preſume too farre vpon their high power: ſo it chaunced here: for within a ſhorte time after that the king was thus taken (as be|fore is ſhewed) the chiefe authour of the whole conſpiracie,The Earle of Menteich is poyſoned. that is to witte, the Lorde Walter Earle of Menteth, who was higheſt in authori|tie amongſt all thoſe Cumyns, was poyſoned, as was thought by his owne wife, through which miſchaunce the reſidue of the Cumyns were ſo amated, that obteining their pardon for all offences paſſed of the king, they did ſet him a|gaine at libertie.The king [...]

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This woman did thus make away hir huſ|band the Earle of Menteith through inſtigation of an Engliſh man called Iohn Ruſſell, as by coniectures it was ſuſpected, namely for that re|fuſing to marrie with any of the Scottiſh nobi|litie, ſhe tooke the ſaid Ruſſell to huſband,Iohn Ruſſel an Engliſh mã though in eſtate to be compared with hirs he was iudged a match farre vnmeete, and therevpon conſtray|ned to flee with him into Englande, ſhee dyed there in great miſerie.