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Compare 1587 edition: 1 There was alſo taken beſide the gouernoure, a notable pyrate named Crab,Ric Southwel. Crab, a pyrate taken. who before that tyme had done many diſpleaſures to the engliſh men both by ſea and lande: and now bicauſe his countrey men woulde not raunſome him, but to his further griefe, had ſlayne his ſonne within Barwike, he becam the king of Englands man, and did the Scots more domage afterwards, thã euer he had done to the Engliſhmen before. The gouernour at length was raunſomed for a great ſumme of golde.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 About the ſame tyme William Douglas of Lyddeſdale named for his ſingular manhood,William Dou|glas of Liddeſ|dale taken pri+ſoner. the floure of chiualrie, fought with the Engliſhmen in Annandale, where himſelfe was taken, and his people diſcomfited.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Bothe theſe noble men thus taken priſoners, were deteyned in captiuitie more than a twelue moneths ſpace, and then raunſomed for a great ſumme of golde.

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