Compare 1587 edition: 1 In rewarde alſo of Makduffes ſeruice,Makduffes Earle of Fife his aduaunce|ment. who (as ye haue heard) chiefly ayded him to the at|teyning of the crowne, he honoured him and his poſteritie with three ſortes of priuiledges.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Fyrſt that the Earle of Fife for the tyme be|ing,Priuiledges graunted vnto Makduffes lynage. at the coronation of a king ſhould by his of|fice ſet the crowne on the kings head. The ſe|cond was, that when the king ſhould giue bat|taile to his enimies, the ſame Earle ſhould leade the vauntgard of his hoſt: The thirde, that the lynage of Makduffe ſhould enioy regall autho|ritie and power within al their lands & roomthes, as to appoynt officers and iudges for the hearing and determining of all matters and controuer|ſies (treaſon onely excepted) and that if any of their men or tenants were called to anſwere in any Court out of their circuit, they might ap|peale to their owne iudges to bee appoynted as before is expreſſed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Iohannes Maior wryteth in his Chronicle,Iohannes Maior. that the thirde priuiledge which Malcolme graunted vnto this Makduffe and his poſteritie, was this, that for euery Gentleman that any of thẽ ſhould hap to kill by chaunce medley, and not vpon pre|tenſed malice, for the ſumme of .xxiiij. markes, he EEBO page image 253 ſhould redeeme his puniſhment due for the ſame: & for the caſuall ſlaughter of a meaner perſon, he ſhould be fined at .xij. Markes, ſo that murthe|rers were wont to ſay, that if they were able to pay that ſumme vnto the Kynboc, then ought to be releaſed of further punitian by Makduffes pri|uiledge. But this third priuiledge, togither with the other two former grauntes, the ſayde Maior ſore reproueth, and not without cauſe, as maye appeare, conſidering the naturall inclination of that people vnto murther, which by this meanes nouriſhing ſecrete hatred and malice in theyr heartes, might vnder the clokẽ of caſuall falling out, ſlea whom they luſted.