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Compare 1587 edition: 1 His companie encreaſeth.His companie encreaſed dayly more and more, by repayre of ſuch number of Rebelles as came vnto him oute of Lochquhaber and the Weſterne Iles.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Earles of Fife & Athol ſent agaynſt him.King William to repreſſe theſe attemptes, ſent forth the Earles of Fife and Atholl, with the Thane of Buthquhane, hauing ſixe thouſande in their companie, the which encountering with the enimies in ſet battail,The Rebelles ouerthrowne. Gothred taken and beheaded. gaue them the ouerthrow, and taking Gothred their chiefe Captaine priſo|ner, brought him vnto the king, who cauſed both him and diuerſe other which were likewiſe taken priſoners, to loſe their heades.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Gothred himſelfe was ſore wounded before he was taken, ſo that if his takers had not made the more ſpeede in the conueying of him to the king, he had dyed of his hurtes before execution had thus beene done on him accordingly as was appoynted.

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