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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Ambaſſadours returning home, and de|claring how they had ſped,The Scottes miſlike the ar|ticles of peace. many of the Scottes thought the Articles nothing reaſonable for free people to accept: Other iudged that eyther they muſt come to ſome agreement with the Engliſh men and Brytaynes, or elſe put the lande in ex|treeme perill, and thus had the people bin deuided into two contrarie opinions and factions, had not one Calene a noble man, borne of high parentage,Calene his graue counſell taketh place. & gouernor of Angus, with ſober reaſons & ſtrong arguments appeaſed this contention, perſwading them to haue reſpecte to the tyme, and ſithe the force of the Realme was ſo infeebled, abated, and brought vnder foote through aduerſe fortune, bet|ter it was to yeelde vnto neceſſitie in ſauing part at that preſent, in hope after when occaſion ſerued to recouer the reſidue, than through obſtinate wilfulneſſe to loſe the whole. For conſidering the preſent daunger, it could be reputed no diſhonour to receyue conditions of peace at the enimies han|des, ſithe there wanted not the lyke enſample of the Romaines, who gladly accepted ſuche arty|cles of peace, as that noble Prince king Eald ap|poynted them: and yet it is not to be iudged that there wanted men of great knowledge and wiſe|dome amongſt them, and ſuch as regarded theyr honour, ſo farre forth as reaſon in any wiſe dyd reache.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The multiude mooued with theſe wordes of Calen,The multi|tude conſented vnto Calene his ſayings. whoſe graue authoritie by reaſon of hys age and rowmth was of no ſmall reputation a|mongſt them, hauing loſt nine of his own ſonnes in the laſt battaile, they finally determined to fol|lowe his opinion in receyuing the ſame conditi|ons of agreement which Oſbert had preſcribed:The Scots re|ceiue the peace and therevpon ſent agayne theyr Ambaſſadors with the hoſtages appoynted for the eſtabliſhing of the peace in maner as before is reherſed. Which beeing throughly accompliſhed in ſuche ſolemne wiſe as in thoſe dayes,King Donald [...] with the noble men are ſent home againe. and in the like caſes was accuſtomed, Oſbert ſet Donald with his nobles at libertie, ſending them home togither with the Ambaſſadors, being earneſtly required ſo to doe, both by the Engliſh Lordes, and alſo by the Bri|taynes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The agreement being thus made,Landes de|uided betwixt the Britains & Engliſh men. the landes were deuided betwixt the Engliſh men and Bri|taynes, in ſuche ſort as the Brytaynes had for theyr parts all that which lyeth from Sterling vnto the Weſt ſea, betwixt the Ryuers of Forth and Clyde, vnto Cumberlande, and the Engliſh men poſſeſſed the other parcels, lying from Star|ling vnto the Eaſt ſea, betwixt the Scottiſh ſea and Northumberlande: ſo that by this meanes Clyde water, Forth, and the Scottiſh ſea (where Forth runneth into the maine ſea) deuided the Scottes from the Engliſh men and Brytaynes. And thus was the towne of Sterling common marche vnto thoſe three people, the ſame towne with the Caſtell remayning vnto Oſbert, as it was couenãted amõgſt other articles of this peace

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