Compare 1587 edition: 1 It is ſayde, that a woman vnderſtanding the Duke of Albanies intention, and taking ruth of the others pitifull caſe, found meanes to let meale fall downe through a rift of the loft of that towre wherein he was encloſed, by meanes whereof, hys life was certayne dayes ſuſteyned, but after thys was once knowne, incontinently was the wo|man made away.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 On the ſame maner, another woman through a long reede, fedde him with milke of hir owne breſts, and was likewiſe diſpatched as ſoone as her doings were perceyued.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Then after this,The Duke of Rothſay fa|miſhed to death. the Duke deſtitute of all worldly ſuſtenaunce through very famine, was conſtreyned to eate not onely all ſuche filth as hee could finde within the Towre, but alſo in y^e end, hee gnawed off his owne fingers, and ſo finally in this miſerable ſtate of Martirdome (as I may call it) ended his wretched life, and was buryed in Lundoris,Miracles. where (as the fame wente many fayre miracles were done neere to his graue, till tyme that Iames the firſt began to puniſh the murthe|rers, for ſithens that time ſuch miracles ceaſſed.