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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus was Iames the firſt murthered the .21. day of Februarie,Iames the firſt murthered. the .xliiij. yeare of his age, the xiij. of his raigne, and from the Incarnation of Chriſt .1436.

1436

His ſtature & forme of body

Compare 1587 edition: 1 His bodie was buried in the houſe of the Char|terares at Perth, which he founded in hys lyfe time, but had not as yet throughly finiſhed it.

This Iames the firſt was of a meane ſtature, with brode ſhoulders, and ſmal in the waſt, all o|ther his members ſo well proportioned thereto, that nothing wanted to comlineſſe of perſonage that might be giuen by nature.

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