Compare 1587 edition: 1 Mary Magda|lens day proſ|perous for the Engliſhe|men to fyghte againſte Scots.This batail was ſtricken on Mary Magda|lens day, in the yere of our Lorde .1298. and ther|fore the Engliſhmẽ haue holden it euer ſithence an happy day for to fight againſt Scottes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Wallace after thys diſcomfiture, came to Perth,1298 and there vttering by complaint the iniu|rious enuie of the nobles againſt hym, he renoũ|ced and diſcharged hymſelfe of all the auctoritie which had bin committed to his hands,Wallace re|nounceth his office. touching the gouernance of the realme.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Philip king of Fraunce.The ſame tyme, Philip king of Fraunce the fourth of that name, and ſurnamed le Beau, ha|uing great ruth in his heart for the miſerable ca|lamities thus chaunced to his auncient confede|rate frendes the Scottes, and that chiefly for the quarell of Fraunce, ſente his ambaſſadors vnto Edward king of Englande, who had lately be|fore maryed his daughter, requiryng that there might be ſom peace or abſtinẽce of war grãted.