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Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Edward himſelfe moſt proude and in|ſolent of ſuch incredible number, tooke no heed at all to the gouerning of them, ſuppoſing victorie to be alreadie in his handes, inſomuch that at his comming to the borders, he tooke aduiſe with his counſell to what kinde of torment and death hee might put king Robert,Fiſhing before the net. for he put no doubtes of catching him at all.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hee alſo brought with him a religious man ſomewhat learned belike, of the order of the Car|melites, to deſcriue the whole maner of his con|queſt and victorie ouer the Scottes,King Edwarde thinketh him|ſelfe ſure of victorie. ſo ſure hee thought himſelfe, that all things woulde come to paſſe as he could wiſhe or deuiſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Carmelite, as maye appeare in Iohn Bales booke intytled a ſummarie of the writers of great Brytaine, was named Robert Baſton,Robert Baſton [...] Carmelite. and had the gouernaunce of an houſe in Scar|bourgh, of the Carmelites order, he being (as be|fore is ſayde) of that cote himſelfe.

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