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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer that the fyrmer amitie and friend|ſhip might continue and bee nouriſhed betwixt this King Robert and his ſubiect the Earle of Dowglas aforeſayde, it was accorded that Eu|fame eldeſt daughter to king Robert ſhould be gi|uen in maryage to Iames ſonne to the Earle of Dowglas aforeſayde.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The firſt com|ming of the Stewardes to the Crowne.Thus ye may perceyue how the Stewardes came to the crown, whoſe ſucceſſion haue enioyed the ſame vnto our time. Queene Mary mother to Charles Iames that now raigneth being the viij. perſon from this Robert, that thus firſt at|teyned vnto it.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He had to wife at the time of his atteyning to the crowne, Eufame daughter to ye Erle of Ros, by whõ he had two ſonnes, Walter and Dauid. But before he was maried to hir,Elizabeth Mure king Roberts con|cubine. he kept one E|lizabeth Mure in place of his wife, and had by hir three ſonnes, Iohn, Robert, and Alexander, with diuerſe daughters, of the which one was maried to Iohn Dunbar Erle of Murrey, and an other to Iohn Leon Lord of Glames.

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