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Compare 1587 edition: 1 That the fielde where the laſt batayle was fought, ſhould be hallowed for Chriſtian burial, within the whiche, the Danes that were ſlayne EEBO page image 237 in the ſame batayle, ſhould be buried, & a churche to be builte there, and landes appointed forth for the maintenance of prieſts, to celebrate there ac|cording to the order of the Chriſtian religiõ then vſed by both the people, for the Danes lately be|fore that ſeaſon had alſo receyued the faith.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The holdes in ſcotland, deli|uered vp by the Danes into the ſcottiſh|mens handes.This peace being rateſted by the ſolem othes of both the kings Sueno and Malcolme, Ca|nute with his Danes reſigning vp the poſſeſſion of ſuch holdes and places, as they held in Mur|rayland, Buchquhan, or els where within any parte of the Scottiſh dominions, got him to his fleete,Canute retur|neth into Dẽ|marke. & departed with the ſame home into Den|marke.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Malcolme hauing thus reſtored his countrey vnto ioyfull peace, thought nothing ſo good as to performe the articles of the agreemẽt accorded betwixt him and the Danes, and ther|fore cauſed a Churche to be builded in the place appointed,A Churche buylded. dedicating the ſame in honour of S. Olauus patrone of Denmarke and Norway, to ſignifie vnto ſuch as came after, that ſundry no|bles of the Danes lay buried in that Church. In memory hereof, the landes that were giuen to the ſame Churche, are called euen yet vnto theſe dayes Crowdan,Crowdan, what it ſigni|fieth. which ſignifieth as much as if ye ſhould ſay, The ſlaughter of Danes.

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