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Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeare next following, which was from the incarnation 1349.1349 there came ſuch a peſtilence through al partes of Scotland, ſo vehement and contagious,The ſeconde peſtilence that was heard of in Scotland. that it ſlue neare hande the third part of all the people. This was the ſecond time that the peſtilence was knowne or heard of to haue come in Scotland.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The ſame yeare (or as other bookes haue, the yeare next enſuing) one Iohn Saint Mighell ſlue ſir Dauid Berclay knight at Aberdene in the night ſeaſon,Sir Dauid Berclay ſlaine. by procurement of ſir William Dowglas of Liddeſdale, as thẽ priſoner in Eng|land with the Earle of Dowglas, both of them beeyng taken at Durham fielde.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The occaſion was, for that this ſir Dauid Berclay had aforetime ſlaine one Iohn Dow|glas, brother to the ſayd ſir William, and father to ſir Iames Dowglas of Dalkeeth.

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