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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Priſoners ta|ken.There wer alſo a great company of priſoners taken at the ſame iourney, amongſt whome as principall were theſe, the Earle of Huntington, and the Earle of Sommerſet, with his brother, both of them being breethren to the Lady Iane that was after married to King Iames the firſt, Kyng of Scotlande. For the high valiauncie of the Scottiſhmen ſhewed in this battel, the Dol|phin created the Earle of Buchquhan high Cõ|neſtable of Fraunce,The Earle of Buchquhane is created Conneſtable of Fraunce. & gaue him ſundry townes, Caſtels, and Lands, therwith the better to main|tayne his eſtate.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The King of Englande ſore moued for the death of his brother, came ouer with all ſpeede in|to France with a mighty hoſt, and had with him Iames the Scottiſhe King,The King of England ta|keth the Prince of Scotland ouer with him into Fraunce. or rather Prince of Scotland, for all this while the Scottes reputed him not as King, for yt he was not as yet crow|ned, nor ſet at libertie out of the Engliſhmens hands, into the which as before ye haue hearde, he chaunced to fall by his fathers life time.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The cauſe why King Henry did take thys Iames ouer with him at ye preſent into Fraunce was, for that he hoped by his meanes to procure all the Sccottiſhmen that were in ſeruice with the Dolphin to forſake him, and to returne home into their owne countrey: but when he had bro|ken thys matter vnto the ſaide Iames, and pro|miſed, that if he could bring it to paſſe, he woulde not only remitte his raunſome, but alſo ſend hym into Scotlande highly rewarded with greate ri|ches.The anſwere of Iames the king or rather prince of Scot|lande. Iames aunſwered herevnto, that hee mar|uelled much, why he did not conſider how he had no auctoritie ouer the Scottes ſo long as he was holden in captiuitie, and as yet had not receyued the Crowne, but (ſayeth he) if it were ſo that I might be ſet at libertie & had receyued ye Crowne according to the accuſtomed manner, togyther with the othes and homages of my ſubiectes, I could thẽ in thys matter do, as ſhould be thought to ſtande with reaſon, but in the meane time I ſhall deſire your grace, to holde mee excuſed, and not to will mee to doe that whiche I may in no wiſe performe.

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