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Compare 1587 edition: 1 He brenned the Churche of Saint Bute, and a thouſand perſons within it, whiche were fledde thither for ſafegard of their liues.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 At his comming to Perth, he found the king his brother within the Churche there, who being ſore offended with him for his miſordred doings, right ſharply reprooued him for the ſame, and for as muche as he aunſwered him ſomewhat fro|wardly, he plucked foorth hys ſworde: and there thruſt him through the body euen before the al|ter of Saint Iohn,King Edwarde ſleyeth his brother Hol|tam. wiſhing that all ſuche might periſh on the ſame wiſe, as put no difference be|twixt friend and foe, place hallowed or vnhallo|wed, as being no reaſon, that the Church ſhould be any more refuge for him, than he had made it for other.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 It may bee that Kyng Edward flewe ſome other man in thys ſorte, as the Scottes here doe write, but for the Earle of Cornwall that was brother to King Edward, & ſurnamed Iohn of Eltham bycauſe he was borne at Eltham,He dyed of a naturall infir|mitie, as by the Engliſhe wri|ters it appea|reth. it is nothing true that he was ſo made away, for hee dyed of a naturall infirmitie, as by our Engliſhe writers it manifeſtly appeareth. But nowe to proceede with the hiſtory as we finde it written.

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