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Compare 1587 edition: 1 A parliament at Scone.Shortly after alſo, there was a parliament holden at Scone, where king Malcolme was ſore rebuked by his Lordes,King Mal|colme repro|ued by his nobles. King Mal|colmes excuſe. in that he had borne through his owne foly, armure agaynſt the Frenchmen their olde confederate frendes and auncient alies: but king Malcolme excuſed the mater with humble wordes, ſaying he came vn|warely into king Henries handes, and therefore might not chooſe but accompliſhe his will and pleaſure at that time, ſo that he ſuppoſed verily how ye Frẽch king would take no great diſplea|ſure with his doings, whan he once vnderſtoode the trouth of the mater.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Henry hauing perfect vnderſtanding of this grudge betwixt the Scottiſh Lordes and their king, thought to renewithe ſame with more diſpleaſure,King Mal|colme goeth to Yorke. and therevpon ſent for king Mal|colme to come vnto Yorke to a parliamẽt which he held there, where at his comming, he was bur|dened by a right greeuous complaynt [...] fed againſt him by king Henry, for that he ſhoulde reuele vnto the Frenchmen, all the ſecretes of the Engliſhe army, when hee was with him in Fraunce, at the aboue remembred iourney, al|legyng the ſame to be ſufficient mater, for thẽ which he ought to forfeyt all the landes whiche he helde of the crowne of England, as Cumber|land, Northumberland, and Huntington.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 And though king Malcolme by many ſub|ſtanciall reaſons declared,Fond dealing and not likely to be true. thoſe allegations to be vntrue and vniuſtly forged, yet by king Henries earneſt enforcing of the mater,Sentence giuẽ againſt king Malcolme at Yorke. ſentence was gi|uen againſt him, by the generall aſſent of all the eſtates there in that parliament aſſembled. And moreouer to bring king Malcolme in further diſpleaſure with his nobles, king Henry gaue notice vnto them before king Malcome returned backe into his countrey, how he h [...]d of his owne accorde renounced all his clayme, right this, and intereſt, whiche hee had to the [...] landes, ſuppoſing by this meanes to [...] king Mal|colme far more odious to all his hoges and ſub|iectes, than euer he was before.

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