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Compare 1587 edition: 1 He gouerned his Realme in greate reſt, peace,He was a great iuſticer. Iuſtice and quietneſſe, riding him ſelfe in proper perſon diuers dayes and nightes, to ſuppreſſe and take theeues, robbers, and oppreſſors of his ſub|iects in all parts of the Realm, til he had brought the countrey to great quietneſſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He was learned and liberal,He was lear|ned. and endewed with many other good vertues and qualities.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Anone after his Coronation, ye Earle of Len|nox, and the Lord Lille, with diuers other theyr aſſiſtantes, notwithſtanding that they had bene with him at the ſlaughter of his father, ſeing that things went not as they wiſhed, reiſed an army,The nobles rayſe an army agayne. & cauſed the dead Kings bloudy ſhirt to be borne afore thẽ for a Banner: and comming forwards towardes Striu [...]ng againſte the yong King,They were o|uerthrowen. were ouerthrowen at Tolymoſſe, where ye Len|nox men, and ſundry other of the Barons ſide were ſlayne, as the Lorde of Kiltrucht and other taken and hanged for their offences.

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