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Compare 1587 edition: 1 This [...] according to inſtructions thus giuen h [...]m,A policie. prouided him of all things [...]rie for his purpoſe, and ſo c [...]ng into the Forth with his ſhip, came a lande himſelfe, and brought with him vnto Edenbourgh two punch [...] of wine, which he [...] to fell vnto the ſtew [...] of houſeholde to the Captaine of the Caſtell, who falling at a price with him, appoynted that hee ſhoulde being them earely in the morning [...] to the Caſtel, that they might be receyued in.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Towers hyring a Cart ouer night, came with the punchlons vp to the Caſtell gate earely vpon the break of the day in the next morning, and ha|uing the gates opened, entred with his Cart, and being come within the gates with it, hee plucked forth a wedge or pynne deuiſed of purpoſe, and immediately therewith the Cart with the hun|chious fell downe, ſtopping ſo the entrie of the gates that in no wiſe they might bee ſhut or clo|ſed againe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Dowglas hauing in his cõpanie William Bullock, Walter Fraſeir, & Iohn Sandlandes, right valiant knightes, with diuerſe other ha [...]e and bolde perſonages, lay in couert not farre off from the Caſtell, and hauing knowledge giuen him by ſound of borne or otherwiſe whẽ to come forth he haſted therevpon with all diligence vnto the gates, and finding them thus open, firſt ſlue the porters, and after into the Caſtell, within a while had diſpatched all them within, and ſo be|came maiſters of that fortreſſe, within the which for Captaine, they left one William Dowglas, the baſtard brother of the other William Dow|glas, by whoſe conduct chiefely both this enter|pryſe and diuerſe other were luckily atchieued.

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