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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Engliſhe writers ſpeake be [...] of .ii. thou|ſand, or .2500. at the moſt.Herewith he appoyntted foorth .vj. thouſande men well apparayled and arayed for the warre, to paſſe by ſea with the Ballyol & other the con|federates into Scotlande, truſting that vppon their ar [...]uall there, they ſhoulde fynde no ſmall number of frendes to aſſiſt them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 B. Southwell.For beſide the Ballyoll, there was the lorde Henry Beaumount a Frenchmã, who had ma|ryed the erle of Buchquhanes daughter & heire: Alſo the Erles of Athole and Angus, and other ſuche Scottiſhe lordes as were baniſhed Scot|lande, when king Robert le Bruce recouered it out of the Engliſhe mens handes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe were appointed to goe with the Bal|lyoll to aſſiſte him in that enterpryſe: and lyke|wyſe the lorde Stafforde and diuers other En|gliſhe capitaynes, whervpon when al their pro|uiſion was once ready, with the number apoin|ted them by king Edwarde,Edward Bally|oll landeth in Scotland. and a fewe others, they got them a ſhipboorde, and ſaylyng foorth by the coaſte till they entred into the Forth, at length they came a lande neare to the towne of Kingorne, [...]der Sei|ton is ſlayne. and ſhortly after, encountring with Alexander Seyton, they ſlewe him, and put his folkes to flight.

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