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Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the meane time, the Scots gathered to the number of fiue .C. men, and ſtood at a ſtrayt, tyll the Engliſh men ſhould come to paſſe by them, & then with ſuch huge noyſe and clamor they ſet on the Engliſh men, that in giuing backe there was foure .C. of them ſlaine,Engliſh men ſlaine and drowned. & a great number of the reſidue for haſte drowned in the water of Sul|way, [figure appears here on page 358] and hereby was all the bootie of cattaile and goodes recouered againe by the Scottes, and the moſt part of it reſtored to the owners.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ambaſſadours frõ the French king.Charles the ſixt as then French king, hearing of ſuche proſperous aduentures dayly chauncing to the Scottes, ſent ouer his Ambaſſadours vnto king Robert, exhorting him to followe his good fortune and occaſion thus offered, to reuenge old iniuries agaynſt the Engliſhe men, nowe that their heartes ſeemed to fayle them through loſſes ſuſteyned diuerſe wayes of late at the Scottiſhe mens handes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 An other cauſe of their meſſage was alſo, (as the Scottes doe write) to renue the olde league and bande betwixt Scotland and France,The renuing of the league betwixt Scot|lande and Fraunce. which being done in ſolemne wiſe according to the ma|ner, they returned into Fraunce, and with them went Ambaſſadors from king Robert vnto their maiſter the ſayd King Charles, Walter Ward|law, Cardinall and Biſhop of Glaſgew, wyth many other noble men, who in like maner there renued the ſame league and bond of friendſhip, to the high contentation of both the Princes. This was in the eleuenth yeare of King Robert hys raigne.

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