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Compare 1587 edition: 1 And for ſo much as Iohn was thought to bee an infortunate name for Kings,

The name of Iohn chaun| [...]ed and called Roberte the third.

Williã Dow| [...] of Nid| [...]d [...]e cho| [...] Admirall by the Lordes of Prutzen.

they chaunged his name and called him Robert after his father, being now the third of that name.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 About the ſame time, William Dowglas of Niddeſdale was choſen by the Lordes of Prut|zen, to be Admirall of a nauy, conteyning two hundred and fortie ſhippes, whiche they had rig|ged, and purpoſed to ſet foorthe againſte the miſ|creaunt people of the Northeaſt partes, but be|ing appealed by the Lord Clifford an Engliſh|man, (who was there likewiſe to ſerue with the foreſaid Lords in that iourney) to fight with him in a ſingular combate.He is ſlayne by the Lorde Clifforde. Duncane Steward in| [...]eth Angus. Before the day came ap|poynted for them to haue darreigned the battell, the Lorde Clifford lay in awayte for the Dow|glas, and vppon the bridge of Danzke mette with him, and there ſlew him, to the great diſtur|bance and ſtay of the whole iourney.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer, ſhortly after the coronation of king Roberte the thirde, tidings came that Duncane Stewarde, ſonne to Alexander Stewarde the Kings brother afore reherſed, was entred into Angus with a greate number of men, and ſlewe Walter Ogiluy Shirefe of the countrey, that came foorth with a power to reſiſt him from ſpoi|ling the people whom he miſerably afflicted, how+beit theſe his inſolent doings were not long vn|puniſhed, for the Earle of Crawfort beeing ſent againſt him with an army, cauſed him to diſperſe his company, and to flee his wayes, but beeyng apprehended with the moſt part of his ſayd com|pany, they were puniſhed according to their de|merites.

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