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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Fire cauſed through windIn the meane tyme, roſe thorough the vehe|mente rage of windes a ſodaine fyre, in manye boundes within the realme of Scotlande, that did muche hurt in buyldings and edifices, bren|ning vp ſteeples with ſuch force of fyre, that the belles were in diuers places melted, as though it had bin in a furnace.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Amongeſt other, thoſe of the abbey of Abir|brothon were moſt precious,Belles melted which were as then conſumed together with the ſteeple wherin they hung. The towns of Abirden and Perth, were bre [...]ned the ſame tyme: Alſo parte of Laynrike, with the temple and all the townes and villages in Clow [...] part of Angus, and lykewyſe manie townes and other buyldings in Lowthian, and in dyuers other partes of the realme, too long here to reherſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the .xxxj. yeare of his reigne was the firſt commyng of the peſtilence into Scotland,The firſt com|ming of the peſtilence into Scotland. with great mortalitie of the people, where it had not bin bred, that euer this ſickneſſe had come with|in that realme before that tyme.

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