The Holinshed Texts (1577, Volume 2, p. 296)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He was buryed at Dunfermling in the yeare after the Incarnation .1290.

1290.

1285. H.B.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 It is ſayde,

1286.

Io. Ma.

that the day before the Kinges death, the Earle of Marche a little before night demaũded of one Thomas Leirmont,Thomas of Erſilton or the rymer. otherwiſe named Thomas the rymer, or as the tranſlator of Hector Boetius hath, Tho. Erſilton who in thoſe dayes was reputed for a notable propheſier EEBO page image 297 or as we may cal him) a [...] [...] what wether they ſhoulde haue on the morow. To whome the ſayd Thomas anſwered that on the morow before noone,A propheſie of a tempeſt. ſhould blowe [...] and tempeſt, that euer was heard of in Scotlande at any time before.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 On the [...] and bright, without cloude [...] other ſigne of foule weather, and that in [...] neare vnto the middeſt of the day, and no [...] ſyde, but all calme and quiet, the Earle of Marche ſente for the forenamed Thomas and tolde him that hee had myſtaken his markes in proph [...]ſying of any ſuche notable tempeſt as he had ſpoken of the nighte before; conſideryng it proued ſo lythe a day without appearance of any tempeſt to enſue.