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Compare 1587 edition: 1 There were taken alſo and brought home by the Scottes as priſoners,Priſoners taken. to the number of foure hundred.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Shortly herevpon king Iames rayſed a migh|tie armie, and beſieged the Caſtel of Roxbourgh,Roxbourgh beſieged. [figure appears here on page 383] but when he had almoſte brought his purpoſe ſo neare to paſſe, that thoſe within began to fall to communication for the rendring of the place, the Queene came to the campe in great haſt vnto him, ſignifying that there was a conſpiracie be|gon againſt him, ſo that if he tooke not the better heed, he was in great danger to fal into the hands of thoſe that ſought his life.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 384The king doubting the matter, raiſed hys ſiege and returned home to prouide the better for his owne ſuretie:

The king in|formed of a conſpiracie made againſt him, rayſeth [...] ſiege.

The Earle of Athol head of the cõſpiracy.

but that preuayled little, for Wal|ter Stewarde Earle of Athole, and heade of the whole conſpiracie, pretending euer a right to the Crowne, by reaſon that hee was procreate by king Robert the ſeconde on his firſt wife, procu|red his nephew Robert Stewarde, and his cou|ſin Robert Graham, to ſlea the King by one meane or other, which finally they accompliſhed in this wiſe.

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