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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The ſolemnization of the mariage before re|membred was kept at Barwike within a while after, on the .xviij. day of Iuly, in the preſence of a great number of the Nobilitie, both of Eng|land and Scotland.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The death of King Robert.King Robert liued not paſt a tweluemonth after this mariage, departing out of this life at Cardros the ſeuenth day of Iuly in the yeare of our Lorde. 1329.1329

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the latter ende of his dayes, he was grie|uouſly vexed with a leproſie, which thus finally made an ende of him, in the .xxiiij. yeare of hys raign. being one of the moſt valiant princes kno|wen in any part of the whole worlde in thoſe his dayes,King Robert taſted both proſperous & a duer [...]e for|tune. hauing felt in his time the force of eyther fortune: for in the beginning of his raigne, ſuche ſtormes of aduerſitie ſurrounded him on ech ſide, that if his conſtant manhoode had not beene the greater, it might haue brought him in diſpayre of all recouerie: for beſides ſundrye diſcomfitures, which he receyued at the handes of the enimies, with loſſe of all his brethren (his brother Edward only excepted) the moſte part of all the Lordes of Scotlande were againſt him, and ayded his ad|uerſaries to the vttermoſt of their powers: yet he nothing diſcouraged herewith, ceaſſed not to em|ploy all induſtruous meanes to deliuer his coun|trey from the yoke of ſeruile bondage (which hee beleeued would ſucceed by the gouernment of the Engliſh kings) til at length (as it were in deſpite of all former chances) he atteyned the effect of his whole indeuours, ſo much the more to his praiſe, as he had found the hinderance & difficultie great in bringing the ſame fully to paſſe.

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