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Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the meane tyme roſe great alter [...]ation be|twixt Henry Beaumont, [...]yfe betwixt Mowbray and Beaumount. and Alexander Mou|braye for certaine landes in Buchquhane: Hen|ry Beaumount claymed thoſe lands by the right of his wyfe, that was daughter to the ſayd A|lexander, but the Mowbraye claymed them as heire to his brother.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After long contention, Mowbray hadde the landes adiudged to him by ſentence of the Bal|lyoll, by reaſon wherof, Dauid Cumyn Earle of Athole, and Richarde Talbot, fauouring the cauſe of Henry Beaumont, began to prac|tiſe ſuche conſpiracies againſt the Ballyoll, that to auoyde further daunger, he was glad to re|peale the former ſentence by him gyuen on the behalfe of Alexander Mowbraye, and by newe ſentence adiudged the landes vnto Henry Beau|mounte, for that (as was alledged) he had ma|ryed the inheritour therof.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus thoroughe puiſſaunce of the parties, the truthe in decydyng of the Controuerſye, myghte not haue place, and alſo the Bally|oll conſtrayned to haue the one of them to hys enimyes.

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