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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Afterwarde hee deceaſſed in Saint An|drowes, but hys body was brought vnto Dur|ham, and there buryed, bycauſe hee was fyrſt Prior thereof.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Malcolme by perſwaſion of this Tur|got,The church of Dunfermling. builded alſo a Church in Dunfermling, de|dicated to the Trinitie,The Sepulture of the Scottiſh kings. ordeyning frõ thenceforth that the common ſepulture of the kings ſhoulde be there, in like maner as it had bin afore time in the Ile of Iona at the Abbay of Colmekill.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Amongeſt other vertuous ordinances alſo EEBO page image 258 which were deuiſed & made by king Malcolme, (through exhortation of his wife Queene Mar|garet) mentioned by Turgot in the booke which he wrote of their liues, this is not to be forgotten, that he abrogated that wicked lawe, eſtabliſhed by king Ewyn the thirde,King Ewyns law abrogated or rather al|tered. appoynting halfe a marke of ſiluer to bee payde to the Lorde of the ſoyle in redemption of the womans chaſtitie, which is vſed to be payed yet vnto this day, & is called the marchets of women, where otherwiſe by tenour of king Ewins lawe, the Lord had the vſe of theyr bodyes, for the firſt night after theyr maryage.

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