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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The wife of Robert le Bruce being daughter to the earle of Ulster, was sent vnto the manour of Brustwike, and there honorablie vsed, hauing a con|uenient number of seruants appointed to wait on hir. The earle of Ulster hir father,Bruces [...] whose daugh|ter she was. in the beginning of these last wars, sent vnto king Edward two of his owne sonnes to remaine with him, in such wise as he should thinke conuenient, to assure himselfe of him, that he would attempt nothing against the English subiects. Also it was said, that the ladie hir selfe, the same daie hir husband and she should be crowned, said,The saieng of Robert Bruces wi [...]e. that she feared they should proue but as a sum|mer king and quéene, such as in countrie townes the yoong folks choose for sport to danse about maipoles. For these causes was she the more courteouslie vsed at the kings hands, as reason no lesse required.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 It should appeare by Robert Fabian, that the king was present himselfe at this battell: but other af|firme, Polydor. that prince Edward was there as generall and not his father, and that the battell was fought at Dunchell vpon the riuer of Tay. But neither the Scotish chronicles nor Nicholas Triuet (whom in the historie of this king Edward the first, we haue most followed) make any mention, Nic. Triuet that either the king or prince should be at the foresaid battell, but that the earle of Penbroke with Robert lord Clifford, and Henrie lord Percie were sent before (as ye haue al|readie heard) with an armie, by whome as appeareth this victorie was obteined, at a place called Methfen.

Matth. West. Methfen. The castell of Lochdore taken, and Christopher Seiton with|in it.

Nic Triuet. He is execu|ted.

After this was the castell of Lochdore taken, and within it Christopher Seiton, that had married the si|ster of Robert le Bruce; and bicause he was no Scot but an Englishman borne, the king commanded that he should be led vnto Dunfrise, where he had kil|led one of the kings knights, and there to be hanged, drawen and quartered.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The wife of this Christopher Seiton, he appointed to be kept in the monasterie of Thixell in Lindsey; and the daughter of Robert le Bruce, which was also taken about the same time, was sent to the monaste|rie of Waiton. Moreouer,His lands giuen awaie by the king. the manour of Seiton in Whitebestroud he gaue vnto the lord Edmund de Mauley, and those other lands that belonged vnto the said Christopher Seiton in Northumberland he gaue vnto the lord William Latimer.The lands [...] Rob. Bruce giuen awaie. The earle of Hereford. The lands that belonged to the new Scotish king he bestowed in this wise, to Henrie Bohun earle of Hereford, which had married one of king Edwards daughters, he gaue the lordships of Annandale; Hert & Hertnes he gaue vnto the lord Robert Clifford,Lord Clifford sauing al|waies the right yet that belonged to the church of Durham, Totenham, and Totenhamshire; and the maner of Wrothell in the south parts he gaue to o|ther noble men; and the earledome of Carrike which R. Bruce had holden, as by inheritance from his mother, the king gaue to the lord Henrie Percie, the earledome of Atholl he gaue to Rafe de Monther|mer earle of Glocester,The lord [...] Percie. Rafe de Mõther [...]. who had also married (as be|fore yee haue heard) an other of the kings daughters, after the decesse of hir first husband Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester.

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