Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 The lords after long deliberation herein had, conſented to his deſire, vnder theſe conditions, that the realme ſhould remain in all freedomes & liberties, without any kind of ſeruile ſubiection, in the ſame maner and ſtate as it was vſed in y^e days of king Alexander laſt deceaſſed, and other his noble progenitors: and if it chaunced, that no iſſue came of this mariage to ſucceede them, then ſhould the crowne returne by remaynder ouer, to the next heires of king Alexander, without any clayme or pretexte of title to bee made by kyng Edwarde, or any of his ſucceſſours in time to come. Immediatly herewith, two noble knights ſir Iohn Scot of Albawore, & ſir Iames We|mys were ſent into Norway to fetche the bryde ouer into Scotlande: but before their comming thyther,The daughter of Norway de|ceaſſeth. ſhe was deceaſſed, and ſo they returned backe into Scotland againe withoute effecte of their errande. And thus by meanes of hir death all amitie and frendſhip betwixt Engliſhemen & Scots ceaſſed.The cõtention betwixte the kinſmen of K. Alexander for the crowne. Then began to enſue great trou|ble & buſineſſe in Scotland, by reaſon of the con|tention whiche ſprang betwixte the kinſemen of king Alexander, for the title & claym which they ſeuerally made and pretended to the crowne.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 See more of this matter in the Engliſhe hiſtories.There were .iij. chiefly that ſemed by nereneſſe of bloud to haue moſt right, and therfore made moſt earneſt ſuite in their claime, Iohn Ballyol, Robert Bruce, and Iohn Haſtings. This Ro|bert Bruce,The aunceſtors of Robert le Bruce. was ſonne to the ſon of that Robert Bruce, which maried Iſabell the yõgeſt daught|er of Dauid Erle of Huntington, on whome he got a ſon named alſo Robert, that maried the inheritor of Carryn, as the haue ſhewed before, whoſe ſome this Robert Bruce was,The lyue of the Ballyo [...]ne with his title to the crowne. that how claimed the crown Iohn B [...]ſhol came of Mar|garet, eldeſt daughter to the foreſaid Dauid [...] of Huntington [...] lorde of Gallowaye, which marryed the ſayde Margarete, begot on hit two daughters, of the which the eldeſt named Derwogil, was giuen in mariage vnto the Iohn Ballyol, father vnto this Iohn Ballyoll, y^e th [...] made clayme to the crowne, alledging that [...] ſo much as he was come of the eldeſt daughter of Earle Dauid the brother of king William, hee ought by reſon to be repuſed as next [...]eile to the ſame king William, ſith none other perſon afirm approched ſo neare vnto him in bloud.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 On the other ſyde Roberte Bruce,The title of Robert Bruce. albeeit hee was deſcended of the youngeſt daughter [...]o Earle Dauid, yet was he [...]ome of the firſte iſſue male, for his father was firſt borne, and therefore if king William had deceaſſed without iſſue, the crowne had deſcended vnto him: for which con|ſideration,Haſtings. he mainteyned that he ought nowe to be preferred. Haſtings alſo for his part, by|cauſe hee was come of the yongeſt daughter of king Dauid, maryed to his father Henrie Ha|ſtings, wanted not allegations to propone, why he ought to be admitted. Beſides theſe, there were other alſo that made claim to the crowne of Scotland, and had matter ſufficiẽt to mainteyn their ſute. This controuerſie being brought be|fore the gouernors, was at ſundry times argued with much cõtention, not without the aſſiſtance of the nobles fauoring the parties, as occaſion of frendſhip or kynred moued them,The doubt of the gouernors. namely Bal|lyol & Bruce had no ſmall nũber y^e leaned vnto their parts, by reaſon wherof, y^e gouernors were in doubt to proceed to any definite ſentẽce in the mater, leſt if they declared one of thẽ king, and o|ther wold attẽpt to vſurpe the crowne by force.