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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The King himſelfe and all his ſeruants alſo were clothed in mourning weed,A Parliament at Edenburgh. during the ſpace of one whole yeare.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The firſt Parliament which he called, was holden at Edenbourgh, in the whiche he confyr|med all the actes and ordinaunces deuiſed by his father:Confirmation of Officers. and further appoynted that all ſuche as had borne offices vnder him, ſhould ſtill enioy the ſame. Namely he commaunded that William Wood Biſhop of Dunblayne ſhoulde ſtill conti|nue Lord Chancellour,The office of the Conſtable. and Alane of Galloway high Conſtable, which is an office of moſt honor and reputation next to the king, as hee that hath power of life and death, if any man drawe bloud of an other by violence within two myles of the Court.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 When this Parliament was ended, bycauſe the olde Queene his mother determined to re|mayne during the reſidue of hir life in the place where that holye woman Queene Margaret ſometyme led hir lyfe, he gaue vnto hir towards the maintenaunce of hir eſtate,The landes of Forfair giuen to the olde Queene. the Caſtelles and townes of Forfair, with the landes and poſſeſſi|ons to the ſame belonging.

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