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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Incontinently after, he went to Barwike, and there arreſted the captaine of the towne na|med ſir William Soulis, and cauſed him to bee conueyed vnto Perth, where ſhortly after he cal|led an aſſembly of all the eſtates of the realme.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This was called the black Parliament,The blacke Parliament. kept in the yeare after the incarnation of our Sauiour 1320.1320 In this Parliament at the begynning therof, was Dauid Abernethy, the ſiſters ſonne of K. Robert, accuſed as party to the treaſon afore|ſayd, though being labored vnto by the reſt of the conſpirators to ioyne with them therein, he refu|ſed ſo to doe, but yet for that he did not vtter the thing, but concealed with them,Dauid Aberne|thy loſeth his heade. he was condẽned & loſt his head, the people ſore lamenting his miſ|hap, for the great valiancy which was knowne to be in him, hauing ſerued honorably many yeares EEBO page image 323 before agaynſt the Saraſins, and other miſcre|ants in the parties of beyonde the ſeas, where he was cleped the flower of chiualry.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In deed the king himſelfe would gladly haue ſaued his life, but for that he minded to do iuſtice on the reſidue, and finding no man to make ſute for hym, he permytted the execution to proceede agaynſt him.

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