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You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 2893 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 342)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Dauid Cumyn Erle of Athole, hearing that the Erle of Murray one of the gouernours was thus taken, ſuppoſing king Edwards parte to be muche aduaunced thereby, came ſtreightwayes vnto Perth,

The erle of Athole reuol|ting to the Bal+lyoll, is eftſo|nes eſtabliſhed gouernour.

The king of England re|turneth home taking the Ballyoll with him.

& gaue his faith eftſones vnto Ed|warde Ballyoll, and was againe eſtabliſhed by him gouernour of the realme of Scotland, as he was before. The king of England hauing in the meane tyme gotten the towne of Perth, retur|ned into Englande, and toke the Ballyoll with him, for doubte leaſt when he had recouered the whole gouernemente of the realme, he ſhoake ſhrinke away from him.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 2894 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 342)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Earle of Athole hauing now regayned his former authoritie, began to exerciſe greate crueltie againſte all thoſe that were enimies to the Ballyoll.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The nobles of the contrarye faction (as Pa|trike Dunbar Erle of Marthe, Androwe Mur|ray, and William Douglas with other) tooke greate deſpite thereat, and reyſing an armye to reſtrayne his inſolente doings, came towardes him, whereof he being aduertiſed (as then lying at ſiege before the caſtell of Kyldrummy) roſe and met them in the fieldes within the forreſt of Kilblayn, where hee gaue them a ſore battayle, and hadde gone away with the victorie, had not Iohn Crag Captayne of Kildrummy ſallyed foorth of the caſtel with three hundred freſh men, and comming to the ſuccour of his frendes,The Earle of Athole is ſlain re|newed the battaile in ſuch earneſt wiſe, that the aduerſaries therby were diſcomfited, Earle Da|uid their chieftayne beeyng ſlayne in the fielde, with Walter Bryde, Robert Cumyn, and a greate number of other, bothe Gentlemen and commons.

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