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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Perth being once deliuered (as before is ſayd) to the gouernour,The Caſtell of Striueling rendred. hee went with his armie to Stryueling, and beſieging the Caſtell, had it ren|dred vnto him the .viij. daye after his comming thither, on theſe cõditions,Alias Rugby. that [...] foults the Captaine, with his wife and children might ſafely paſſe into Englãd, without [...] or [...]ile of any [...].

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Edward Ballyoll,Edward Balli|ol withdraw|eth into Eng|lande. by ſuch good and proſpe|rous ſuc [...]eſſe as did thus dayly fall vnto his eni|mies, to auoyde further daunger, after [...]| [...]ing fr [...] place to place at length hee was con|ſtrayned to flee into Englande, leaſt hee ſhoulde haue light into his aduerſaries handes.

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