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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Erle of Dowglas hauing concluded this bond of confederacie, b [...]re himſelfe very highe,The Earle of Dowglas pre|ſometh of the aſsiſtance at the handes of his friendes. in preſuming further therof than ſtood with reaſon: and this was one great cauſe of the kings diſplea|ſure nowe paſſingly increaſed agaynſt the ſayde Erle. An other cauſe was this:The Lorde Herres his lands ſpoyled. a ſort of theeues and robbers brake into the landes of the Lorde Iohn Herres, a noble man, and one that had con|tinued euer faythfull to the king, taking with thẽ out of the ſame landes a great bootie of Cattell. And whereas the ſayde Lord [...] Herres complay|ned vnto the Earle of Dowglas of that wrong, bycauſe the offendours were inhabyting within his row [...]th, and yet coulde haue no redreſſe, he attempted to fetche oute of Annardale, ſome praye, wherewith to ſatiſfie in parte the wrong which had bene offred him by thoſe lymmers and robbers. But ſuch was his euil happe, that taken he was with his retinue, and committed to pry|ſon, and ſhortly after by commaundement of the Earle of Dowglas, he was hanged as a fellon,The Lorde Herres hanged notwithſtanding that the king by an Herald cõ|maunded the contrarie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The king being ſore offended herewith as he had no leſſe cauſe) paſſed ouer his diſpleaſure with ſilence, til he ſaw time and opp [...]unitie to reuenge the ſame: but in the mean ſeaſon many an honeſt man bought the bargain right dearly, being ſpoy|led of that he had, & otherwiſe euil entreated, and yet durſt not the meaner ſort once complaine, for feare of further miſchief, where the higher powers alſo ſore lamented the great diſorders dayly in|creaſing, and were not able yet in anye wyſe EEBO page image 392 to reforme the ſame, inſomuch as it was greatly doubted,The cõfedera|cie miſtruſted. leaſt the Earles of Dowglas. Craw|forde, Roſſe, Murrey, and other of that faction, ment to put the king beſide his ſeate which doubt being put into ye kings head, brought him into no ſmal perplexitie,The king ſen|deth for the Erle of Dow|glas. whervpon by courteys meſſages he ſent for the Earle of Dowglas, wylling hym to repayre to his preſence, ſoiourning there in Striueling Caſtell, which he refuſed to do, till he had aſſurance vnder the kings great ſeale for his ſafe cõming and going (as ſome haue ſaid.) And then about Shrouetide in the yeare .1451. he came to the court at Striueling,1451 where the king tooke him aſide, and in ſecret talk moued and requeſted him to forſake the league and bonde of friendſhip betwixt him and the Earle of Crawford, and o|ther ſuch his confederates.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There was a ſecrete murmuring amongeſt a number, that this Erle of Dowglas purpoſed to make a proofe one day to get the garlande beſyde the kings heade.

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