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Compare 1587 edition: 1 It may bee that Kyng Edward flewe ſome other man in thys ſorte, as the Scottes here doe write, but for the Earle of Cornwall that was brother to King Edward, & ſurnamed Iohn of Eltham bycauſe he was borne at Eltham,He dyed of a naturall infir|mitie, as by the Engliſhe wri|ters it appea|reth. it is nothing true that he was ſo made away, for hee dyed of a naturall infirmitie, as by our Engliſhe writers it manifeſtly appeareth. But nowe to proceede with the hiſtory as we finde it written.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Such things accompliſhed in Scotlande as before ye haue hearde,King Edwarde returneth into England. King Edward retourned into Englande, and lefte the Ballyoll behynde him with a great power of men at Perth.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 About the ſame time Henry Beaumont ſlew all ſuch Scottes as he might lay hands on, that had bin at the battell of Kylbleyn, where hys couſin Dauid Cumyn was ſlayne.

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