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You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 3013 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 352)

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.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
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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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1353.

Io. Ma. Sir William Dowglas ſlain.

In the yeare folowing, was the ſame ſir Wil|liam Dowglas, being lately before ranſomed out of England, ſlain, as he was a hunting in Etrik Foreſt, by his couſin and godſon William Erle of Dowglas, in reuenge of the ſlaughter of Alex|ander Ramſey, and other olde grudges.

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