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Compare 1587 edition: 1 It chaunced alſo, that ther fell the ſame night more ſnow aloft vpon the other ſnow that was fallen before, by reaſon whereof it coulde not bee iudged in the morning which way he was gon, though king Edward vpon knowlege had that he was fled, ſent out a great maynie of horſmen after, to haue brought him againe, if they might any where haue founde him.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But the Bruce haſted foorth with ſuch ſpeede in his iourney,He commeth to Lochma|ben. that the .vij. day after his depar|ture from London, hee came to Lochmaben in Annandale, and there found Dauid (or as ſome bookes haue Edward his brother, with Roberte Flemeyn, a worthie young Gentleman, vnto whom (they muſing what he ment by his ſodain comming) he declared into what perill of lyfe he had fallen by meanes of the Cumyn, and howe narowly he had eſcaped oute of king Edwardes handes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 His brother hearing the matter, conſented to goe wyth him, and to be partaker of all hap|pes that mighte fortune to fall out in his flighte: and by the way they chaunced to light vpon one of Cumyns ſeruantes,A ſeruaunt of Cumyns taken with letters on him. that was going with let|ters vnto king Edwarde from hys mayſter, the ſaid Cumyn, ſignifying by ye ſame, that if Bruce were not the ſooner put to death, there would en|ſue ſhortely ſuche trouble and ruffling in Scot|lande agaynſte kyng Edwarde, that it woulde bee muche adoe to appeaſe it.

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