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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Earles of Mar & March [...]er their people.Ballyoll ryght ioyful of this happie ſucceſſe, came with his people to Perth, otherwiſe called S. Iohns towne, wherof the erles of Mar and March being aduertiſed, they reiſed two mightie armies, and haſted towarde the enimies, not as though they ſhuld haue to doe with men of war, but to chaſtiſe a number of theeues & robbers that were come out of Englande.

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