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Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this, laying ſiege vnto Norham caſtel, when hee had continued at the ſame a certaine time, and perceiued how he loſt but his trauail, he left it & returned home with great honor and tri|umph, for his other atchieued enterpriſes in that iourney. King Henrie being once aduertiſed that king Alexander had broken vp his campe, incon|tinently got eftſoones his people togither,Barwike won by K. Henrie. & com|ming to Barwike, wanne both the towne and Caſtel: After entring into Scotland, he burned and ſpoyled the coũtrey alongſt by the ſea coaſts, till he came as far as Hadington,Haddington. putting al ſuch to the ſword as were found in the way, women, prieſtes, and children onely excepted.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He aſſayed to haue wonne the Caſtel of Dun|bar, but miſſing his purpoſe there, he returned in|to Englande.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the meane time, the auaritious Prelate Gualo, vppon truſt to purchaſe ſome large por|tion of mony in Scotlande,Scotland in|terdited. put the ſame vnder proces of interditing, & namely he accurſed king, Alexander moſt terribly, for that he had inuaded England, (and as he alledged) ſpoyled Churches as well as prophaine places. Theſe curſings [...] inflamed the heartes of the Scottiſh men with hatred agaynſt the Engliſhemen, that the ſame was not like to haue ended without the vtter de|ſtruction and ruine of both their realmes.

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