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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Such as were appoynted gouernours (during the minoritie of king Alexander) doubting least the tender yeares of their soueraigne might enbolden the enimies of the Realme to attempt some inuasion, sent Ambassadors vnto Henrie king of England, requiring that the peace might be ratified of new with him and his people, They were fi|anced in the [...] dayes of king Alexander the fayre as in the Engliſh chro|nicle it may appeare. and further to make a motion of mariage to bee had betwixt king Alexander and a daughter of king Henries.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Shortly [...], vpon this motion, both the kings moſte at Yorks with a greate number of Lordes,An enteruiew of the kings of Englande and Scotlande. aſwell ſpirituall as temporall of both the Realmes, where king Alexander according to the promiſe before that tyme made, maryed the Lady Margaret daughter to the forenamed king Henry, on Saint Stephens day in Chriſtmaſſe, with al ſolemnitie and ioyfull myrth that might be deuiſed.1250.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The charges whereof, were borne partly by king Henrie, & partly by the Archbiſhop of York, who in feaſting thoſe princes ſpẽt right liberally.

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