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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There were ſome that were accuſed to bee partakers in this treaſon, but yet for that no eui|dent proues could be produced againſt them, they were diſmiſſed, as Walter Maxwel, with Wal|ter Berclay Shirif of Aberdene, Patrike Graim, Hameline Neydrinton, and Euſtace a Rathre, knights beſide eight others. But yet the Coũteſſe of S [...]atherne, and William de Soulis, were condemned to perpetuall priſon.

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