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You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 3039 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 354)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 It was agreed that there ſhoulde be payde for his raunſom one hundred thouſand Markes ſter|ling, at ſundrie dayes of payment, as was accor|ded betwixt them.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 3040 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 354)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Truce for .14. yeares.Truce alſo was taken for the ſpace of .xiiij. yeares betwixt both Realmes, and dyuerſe No|bles of Scotlande were appoynted to lye as Ho|ſtages in Englande, tyll the money were payde, as is before mentioned. King Dauid was alſo bounde by couenaunt of agreement to raze cer|tayne Caſtelles within Scotlande,Caſtelsmed. whiche ſee|med moſte noyſome to the Engliſhe Borders, whiche couenaunt hee perfourmed, for vpon hys returne into Scotlande, hee caſt downe the Ca|ſtelles of Dalſwynton, Dunfreys, Mortowne, and Duryſdere.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 3041 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 354)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He alſo called a Parliament wherin he enac|ted ſundrie things for the puniſhment of them that fled from him at Durham field,A Parliament. and firſt for that hys couſin Robert Stiwarde was one of them, beeing through meanes thereof a greate cauſe of the ouerthrowe, he procured that the act (by whiche the crowne was appoynted for want of iſſue of his bodie lawfully begotten,

Robert Ste|warde diſin|herited of the crowne.

Iohn Suther|lande made heyre appa|rant.

to defende vnto the ſayde Robert Steward was vtterly re|uoked and diſanulled, and Iohn Sutherlande the ſonne of Iane his yongeſt ſiſter, appoynted heire apparant in place of the ſayde Robert. And all the Lordes of Scotlande were ſworne to obſerue and keepe this ordinance.

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