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Compare 1587 edition: 1 For the ſame yeare on the .xviij. day of A|prill, as he was galloping vpon a fierce horſe at Kingorn, forcing him in his race ſomwhat raſh|ly, he was throwne ouer the weſt clife towards the Sea by a wonderfull miſfortune ſo rudely, that hee brake his necke, and ſo therewyth immediately dyed in the .xlij.35. H.B. yeare of hys raigne.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He was buryed at Dunfermling in the yeare after the Incarnation .1290.

1290.

1285. H.B.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 It is ſayde,

1286.

Io. Ma.

that the day before the Kinges death, the Earle of Marche a little before night demaũded of one Thomas Leirmont,Thomas of Erſilton or the rymer. otherwiſe named Thomas the rymer, or as the tranſlator of Hector Boetius hath, Tho. Erſilton who in thoſe dayes was reputed for a notable propheſier EEBO page image 297 or as we may cal him) a [...] [...] what wether they ſhoulde haue on the morow. To whome the ſayd Thomas anſwered that on the morow before noone,A propheſie of a tempeſt. ſhould blowe [...] and tempeſt, that euer was heard of in Scotlande at any time before.

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