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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Among other were theſe, Gilbert de Malet, Iohn Cogi knights, and Richard Bron a noble warriour. Iohn Maior.On the morrowe after, he cauſed all the re|ſidue of the trayters to be brought forth to iudge|ment, and ſentence being giuen agaynſt them, he commaunded without delay that they ſhould be executed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Then came diuerſe and ſundry perſons in moſt humble wife to make ſute for pardon to the king for their friends and kinſmen: but he made them plaine anſwere, that there was none to bee founde that would make interceſſion for the ſa|uing of his kinſmans life the day before, when he was led to execution, that had offended nothing ſo grieuouſly in compariſon to them for whome they now made ſute, & therefore he had them be contented, for they ſhoulde aſſuredly haue accor|ding to ye which they had deſerued.Execuſion w [...]thout re|ſpite. And therwith were the officers cõmaunded to make haſt with the execution, whiche was done incontinently without any further reſpite.

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