Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Alexander therefore aduertiſed here|of, came into thoſe parties with a competent ar|mie,Execution. and apprehending the chiefe authours and captaynes, ſtroke of their heades.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 As he returned backe through the Mernes, there came a woman vnto him weeping in la|mentable ſorte, who fell vppon hir knees at his feete, beſeeching him to pitie hir caſe, hauing loſt both hir huſbande and ſonne,The Earle of Mernes ſonne. by the tyrannous crueltie of the maiſter of Mernes, who for that they had called him afore a iudge in an action of debt, had ſlaine and murthered as well the one as the other.