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Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Edwarde [...] agree to ayde the Bal|lyoll.King Edward gladly vppon that condition, co [...]d [...]nded to his requeſt, notwithſtanding the aliance contracted with king Dauid, by the ma|riage of him with his ſiſter.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Engliſhe writers ſpeake be [...] of .ii. thou|ſand, or .2500. at the moſt.Herewith he appoyntted foorth .vj. thouſande men well apparayled and arayed for the warre, to paſſe by ſea with the Ballyol & other the con|federates into Scotlande, truſting that vppon their ar [...]uall there, they ſhoulde fynde no ſmall number of frendes to aſſiſt them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 B. Southwell.For beſide the Ballyoll, there was the lorde Henry Beaumount a Frenchmã, who had ma|ryed the erle of Buchquhanes daughter & heire: Alſo the Erles of Athole and Angus, and other ſuche Scottiſhe lordes as were baniſhed Scot|lande, when king Robert le Bruce recouered it out of the Engliſhe mens handes.

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