Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeare next enſuing,1387 Walter Wardlaw Biſhop of Glaſgewe and Cardinall departed this life. Alſo within a while after that king Ri|chard was returned back into England, Robert Steward Erle of Fife, w^t Iames Erle of Dow|glas, EEBO page image 361 Archir [...]bald Dowglas, L. of Galoway en|tred into Englande with an army of thirtie M. men,An Army of thirty thou|ſand Scottes inuaded Eng|land by the weſt marches. Cokermouth taken vpon the ſuddayne. comming ſo ſecretely through the water of Sulway, that they came to Cokermouth in ſuch ſpeedy wiſe vppon the ſuddayne, that the people had not leyſure to conuay away their goodes, ſo that the Scottes remaynning there for the ſpace of three dayes, got a riche bootie togither, and retur|ned with the ſame through y^e countreys of Weſt|merland and Northumberlãd ſafe, and without encounter agayne into Scotlande.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Amongſt certayne other things, found in rife|ling and ranſacking of houſes in thys iourney, there was a Chartor found of certayne lands gi|uen by King Athelſtane in this forme:

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The forme of mold deede of gifte. I Kyng Athelſtane gyues to Paullane, Odhi|am and Rodhiam, als guid and als fayre, als euer yay mine wayre, and yarto witneſſe Malde my wife. By tenoure of whiche deede it may ap|peare,The true mea|ning of men fielde time. that our aunceſtors gaue more credite to the true meaning of a fewe words barely expreſ|ſed in their writings, than that there needed ſo long proces and circumſtaunce as is nowe vſed with long ſtudie of penning, nothyng beeyng thought ſufficiente to aſſure the parties of theyr couenaunted bargaynes, and concluded agree|mentes.