Compare 1587 edition: 1 All the nobilitie of Scotlande was ſworne to hym that daye (Wallace onely excepted) who eſchewed more than the companye of a ſerpent,Wallace eſ|ch [...]eth to a|gree with the Engliſhmen. to haue any thing to doe with the Engliſhmen, touching any agreement to be made with them, agreeable to their deſires.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer to kepe the Scottes from rebellion, king Edwarde ordeyned Odomare de Va|lence to be gouernor there as his general lieute|naunt ouer the whole realme of Scotlande in his abſẽce.Odomare or Aymer de Valence go| [...]ernour [...] of Scotlande vn|der king Ed|warde. And hauing thus ſet al things in good and quiet order (as he ſuppoſed he returned into Englande with great ioy and triumph.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the meane time Iohn Cumyn ſurnamed the redde, and Roberte Bruce hauing confe|rence together,Cõference be|twixt the Cu+myn & Bruce. complayned the one to the other of the myſerable ſeruitude wherein the Realme of Scotlande as then ſtoode by the oppreſſion of king Edward. And at length vpon offers made betwixte them, it was agreed, that if by anye meanes they myght delyuer the Realme out of the Engliſhmens hands, the one of them ſhould be king, that is to witte the Bruce, and the o|ther that is to ſay the Cumyn, ſhoulde enioy all the Bruces landes and poſſeſſions, with many other prefermentes of honoures and dignities as nexte vnto him in all authoritie touchyng the gouernement of the realme.