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Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Robert hearing in what daunger they had run for his ſake, rewarded them with great riches of the ſpoyle got in the field,The Scottiſh houſe in And|warpe buyld. with the which they returning into Brabãt, buylt a goodly houſe in Andwarpe, naming the ſame Scotlande, and cauſing the Scottiſhe armes, and the picture of Bruce to be ſet vp in the ſame, appoynted it for a lodging to receyue them of the Scottiſhe nation that ſhoulde reſort vnto that towne, as may ap|peare euen vnto this day.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 And this was done for a memoriall, to ſhew what loue and heartie beneuolence theſe two knights bare towardes king Robert & his people, for the great liberalitie receyued at his handes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 This glorious victorie chaunced to the Scots on the day of the natiuitie of S. Iohn Baptiſt, in the yere .1314. Immediatly after,1314 K. Robert called a Parliamẽt at Ayre, where by cõſent of the three eſtates he was cõfirmed king,The crown of Scotlande en|tayled. & the crown entai|led to the heyres males of his bodie lawfully be|gotten, & for want of ſuch heyres to remaine vnto his brother Edward Bruce, & to the heyres male of his body:Mariorie the daughter of king Robert by his firſt wife. and if he chanced to die without ſuch heyres, thẽ ſhould the crowne deſcend vnto Mar|iory the daughter of K. Robert, and to the heyres generall of hir bodie, by lawfull ſucceſſion.

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