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Compare 1587 edition: 1 His nauie being as then arriued in the Forth, taryed behinde, and firſt burning the Abbay of Saint Colmes Inche, a number of the Souldi|diers with their Captaynes landed in Fife, and ſpoyled diuerſe townes and villages there: but in the ende, Thomas and Nicholas Erſkynnes be|ing brethren, Alexander Lindſey, and William Cunningham of Kylmauris,The Engliſh men diſcom|fited in Fife. ſet vpon them, and ſlue the moſt part of them, ſo that few in number eſcaped againe to their ſhips, being purſued hard to the water ſide.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The ſtrengthes of Tiuidale recouered.The ſame yere the Erle of Dowglas recoue|red al the ſtrengthes of Tiuidale out of the Eng|liſh mens handes, which they had helde euer ſithe the battaile of Durham vnto thoſe dayes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Earle of Dowglas de|ceaſſeth.This Erle of Dowglas, one of the moſt valiãt perſonages in thoſe his dayes within the whole realme of Scotlande, died within his Caſtell of Dowglas, ſhortly after he had atchieued this en|terpriſe, & was buried in the Abbey of Melros.

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