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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Elgyn and Fo|res left voyde.Then thoſe ſouldiers which kept Elgyn and Fores, hearing what crueltie the Danes had thus vſed, fled out of thoſe Caſtels, and left them voyd [figure appears here on page 232] without any perſon to defende them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Danes reioyſing at this good fortune, truſted to eſtabliſhe thẽſelues ſure ſeates in Mur|rey lande, and therevpon ſent backe their ſhippes into Norway and Denmarke, to fetch [...] thence their wyues and children.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the meane time they conſtrayned ſuche Scottes as they had layde handes on, to reape and inne the corne growing abrode in the fieldes, vnto their vſe and commoditie.

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