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Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the dayes of this Malcolme Cammore, liued that famous hyſtoriographer Marianus a Scottiſh man borne,Marianus. but profeſſed a Monke in the Monaſterie of Fulda in Germany. Alſo Ve|remond a Spaniſh prieſt,Veremonde. but dwelling in Scot|land, floriſhed about the ſame time, and wrote the Scottiſh hiſtorie, whome Hector Boetius ſo much followeth.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The ſonnes of king Malcolm Cammore.Malcolme had by his wife Queene Margaret (otherwiſe called for hir holineſſe of life S. Mar|garet) vj. ſonnes, Edward (as is ſaid) was ſlain: Etheldred, which died in his tender age, and was buried in Dunfermling: and Edmond which re|nounced the world, & liued an holy life in Eng|land: the other three were named Edgar, Alex|ander and Dauid. There be that write how Ed|mond was taken, and put to death in priſon by his vncle Donalde Bane,Donald Bane. when he inuaded the kingdome, and vſurped the crowne, after the de|ceaſſe of his brother king Malcolme, and ſo then was Edgar next inheritour to the crowne.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Donalde Bane fled into the Iles.This Donald Bane, who (as before is men|tioned) fled into the Iles to eſchue the tyrannical malice of Makbeth, after he once heard that his brother king Malcolme was dead,Donalde Bane returneth into Scotlande. His couenant for the gift of the Iles to the king of Nor|way. returned into Scotland by ſupport of the K. of Norway, vnto whom he couenanted to giue the dominion of all the Iles, if by his meanes and furtheraunce hee might obteyne the crowne of Scotland.

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