Compare 1587 edition: 1 Therefore hauing oportunitie of ſuch a quiet time, he rode about all the parties of his realme, and vſed to ſit in hearing of iudgement himſelfe, ſpecially cõcerning poore mens cauſes and mat|ters,The care of king Dauid for the poore. but the controuerſies of the Lordes and bar|rons he referred to the hearing of other Iudges.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 If he vnderſtoode that any man were endo|maged by any wrongful iudgement, he recõpen|ſed the partie wronged,A rightuous iudge. according to the value of his loſſe & hinderance, with the goods of the iudge that pronounced the iudgement.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus in the firſt yeares of his raigne, hee did many things to the aduauncement of the com|mon welth,Banketting cheare bani|ſhed. and baniſhed ſuch banketting cheare as was vſed amongſt his people after the enſam|ple of the Engliſhe men, perceyuing the ſame to breede a great weakning and decay of the aunci|ent ſtoutneſſe of ſtomacke, that was wont to re|maine in the Scottiſh nation.