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Compare 1587 edition: 1 He alſo gaue vnto the Church of Saint An|drowes, the landes called the Boarrinke,Landes named the Boarrink. ſo na|med, for that a great Boare was ſlain vpon the ſayde grounde, that had done much hurt in the Countrey thereabout.Boare tuskes. The tuſkes of this Boare doe hang in Chaynes vppon the ſtalles of the Quier in Saint Androwes Church afore the high aulter, and are a .xvj. ynches in length, and foure ynches in thickneſſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer the Abbey of Dunfirmling was fi|niſhed by king Alexãder,The Abbey of Dunfirmling. and endowed with ſun|drie landes and poſſeſſions.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Whileſt king Alexander was thus occupied in buylding and repayring of religious houſes,Dauid brother to king Alex|ander. his brother Dauid liued in Englande with hys ſiſter Queene Maulde, and through fauor which the king hir huſbande bare towardes him, he ob|teyned in maryage one Maulde,Woldoſius Earle of Nor|thumberland & Huntingtõ. daughter vnto Woldoſius, or rather Waltheof Earle of Hun|tington and Northumberland, begot of his wife the ladie Iudith that was neece vnto king Wil|liam ye Conquerour, & for yt the ſayd Woldoſius or Waltheof had no other iſſue to inherite his lands, Dauid in right of his wife Mauld enioyed the ſame,The landes of Huntington and Northum|berland annex|ed to the crowne of Scotland. and was made Earle of Huntington & Northumberland, & had iſſue by his wife a ſonne named Henrie, by whom the lands of Hunting|ton, & ſome part of Northũberland were annexed vnto the crown of Scotlãd, as after ſhal appeare.

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