Compare 1587 edition: 1 This was the ende of that noble Douglas, one of the moſt valiant knightes, that lyued in his days.How often Ia|mes Douglas had got the victorie. He had gotten the victorie .lvij. ſundry tymes in fight againſt the Engliſhmen, & .xiij. tymes againſte the Turkes, as it is written at length (ſayth Balentine) in Scoticronicon.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He might haue bin right neceſſary for the de|fence of Scotland, if his chance had bin to haue returned home in ſafetie. He ended his life in ma|ner (as is before mencioned) on the .xxvj. day of Auguſt,

1330.

King Dauid.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 BVt now to procede in order with the victo|rie, ye ſhal note y^t after y^e deceaſe of K. Ro|bert, his ſonne Dauid a childe vneth .vij. yeres of age, was proclaimed king, & afterwardes crow|ned at Scone, the .23. day of Nouember, in the yere of our lord .1331. During y^e time of his mino|ritie,1331. Erle Thomas Rãdal was ordeined gouer|nor of y^e realm, who for the ſpace of four yeres, in the later ende of K.Erle Thomas Randall go|uernoure of Scotland. Roberts reigne, had y^e whole adminiſtration of things cõmitted to his charge by the ſame king, for that by reaſon of ſicknes, he was not able to attẽd y^e ſame himſelf. This Erle Thomas then beeing elected gouernour by the generall conſent of al the nobles of the realm, cõ|ſidred with himſelf, how neceſſarie it was for the people to continue in peace, till they had ſome|what recouered their hynderance and loſſes chã|ced to them by the former warres. He addreſſed therfore certaine ambaſſadors immediatly after the death of king Robert vnto the king of Eng|lande,Ambaſſadours ſent into Eng|land. to require a new confirmation of the peace betwixt both the realmes for a ſeaſon.