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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The truce vio|lated.In the yeare following agaynſte the nexte Fayre to be holden at Roxbourgh aforeſayde, the ſayd Erle of March, with his brother the Erle of Murrey gathered a power of men ſecretely togi|ther,Roxbourgh ſurpriſed by the Earle of March. and cõming to the ſayd towne tooke it, ſlue all the Engliſh men founde within it, put theyr goodes to the ſack, and after ſet the towne on fire, and ſo departed.

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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Engliſh men inuade Scotlande.Herevpon the Engliſh men ſhortly after enter with an armie into Scotlande, burning & doing much hurt vpon the landes of ſir Iohn Gordon, for that they ioyned to the Erle of Marches lãds.

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