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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Erledome of Murrey continued in poſ|ſeſſion of the Dunbars onely during the lyfe of this Erle Iohn and his ſonne, in whom the ſuc|ceſſion failed touching the name of the Dunbars,How the Dow|glaſſes came to the Erledome of Murrey. in the inioying of that Erledome: for leauing a daughter behinde him that was maryed to the Dowglas, the ſame Dowglas came by that meanes to the ſayd Erledome of Murrey.

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