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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Henry Lorde Synclare the ſeconde Earle of Orkney, was appoynted to haue the conuoye of hym, who hauing all his purueyance ready, tooke the Shippe that was appoynted for them at the Bas, where it lay at auere, and lewſing from thence, they ſayled forwarde till they came to Flamburgh heade, where (as ſome ſaye,) they were taken on the Sea by Engliſhmen, the whiche hearing howe the Prince of Scot|lande ſhould paſſe that wayes, lay in awayte for hym.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Other write, that his deſire was to be ſet on land there, bycauſe he mighte not away with the ayre of the ſea, being brought farre out of quiet in hys head and ſtomacke therewith. But how ſo|euer it was, the troth is, taken he was in the .ix.

Iames Prince of Scotland taken by the Engliſhmen.

H. B. 1404

yeere of his age the .xxx. day of March in the yere after the incarnation .1406. and was kept in cap|tiuitie of the Engliſh men by the ſpace of eigh|teene yeeres.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 At his comming to the preſence of King Hen|ry, he deliuered vnto him the letters directed from hys father Kyng Robert, the tenor whereof here enſueth, as in Scottiſh they be written.

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