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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Mauld the daughter of king Henrie Beau|clerke, was maried vnto Henrie the Emperor the fourth of that name, William, Richard, & Eu|feme, the reſidue of ye iſſue which the ſame Henry EEBO page image 263 had by his wife (ſurnamed for hir ſingular boun|teouſneſſe, the good Queene Matilde) in com|ming forth of France to repaſſe into England, periſhed in the ſea by a tempeſt, to the great do|lour of the king their father, and to all other his ſubiects of eche eſtate and degree.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The death of king Alexan|der.Their mother the ſayde Maulde was before that time departed out of this life. It was not long after, but that Alexander deceaſſed alſo, and was buryed in Dunfermling byſydes hys fathers ſepulture, in the .xvij. yeare of his raigne complete, and from the incarnation of Chriſt 1125.1124. H.B. yeares.

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