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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thoſe Scots that had ſerued vnder him like|wiſe, were contented to forſake the king of Eng|landes wages, and to ſerue William Dowglas, wholed them forthwith to the ſiege of Perth,The towne of Perth rendred to the gouer|nour. the which towne ſhortly after his cõming was ren|dred into the gouernors handes by Thomas V|thred the Captaine, in the thirde moneth after it was firſt beſieged, and in the yeare after our re|demption. 1341.1341.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Iohn FourdonAmong other exploytes attempted at thys ſiege after the comming of the Lorde William Dowglas, the French man Hugh Handpile, ta|king vpõ him one day to approch the towne with his ſhippes, & to giue an aſſault therto, he loſt the chiefeſt veſſell he had, although afterwards when the towne was now rendred, the Lord William Dowglas cauſed the ſame ſhippe to be to him a|gaine reſtored, and with great thankes and libe|rall rewards giuen as well to him as to the other of the French men, he ſent thẽ backe into France greatly to their pleaſure, and contentation, al|though in theyr returne, as they paſſed oute of Drumley Fyrth they eſcaped very hardly from the ſhore.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In which ſame yeare (as ſome do write) or ac|cording vnto other,A fore dearth. in the yeare following, there was ſuch a miſerable dearth, both through Eng|land and Scotlande, that the people were driuen to eate the fleſh of horſes, dogges, cattes, and ſuch like vnuſed kindes of meate to ſuſtaine their lan|guiſhing lyues withall, ye [...] inſomuch that (as is ſayde) there was a Scottiſh man an vplandiſhe fellow named Tryſticlok,Children eatẽ. ſpared not to ſteale children, and to kil women, on whoſe fleſh he fed, as if he had bene a Woolfe.

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