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Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 411Aboute the ſame time was one Peter Hialas ſent Ambaſſador from Ferdinando K. of Spaine to treate as a Mediator for the concluding of peace betwixt the kings of Englande and Scot|lande,Peter Hialas an Ambaſſa|dor from the K. of Spaine. which Hialas trauayled ſo earneſtly in the matter, that at length it was agreed, that certain Commiſſioners of both the realmes ſhould meete at Melroſſe,Commiſsio|ners met at Melroſe. or Iedworth (as ſome ſay.) where for the king of England, doc|tor Foxe, then Biſhop of Durham, with this Hi|alas, and other graue perſonages met the Scot|tiſh Commiſſioners.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 A truce con|cluded for yeares.After long conference and much talke had, for the concluſion of a generall peace, finally nothing but a truce might be accorded for certaine yeares, though Hialas did what hee poſſible might, to haue agreed them for all maner of matters, qua|rels, demaundes and cauſes, whatſoeuer the ſame had beene,The cauſe why Hialas was ſent. that a perpetual peace might haue bene concluded, bycauſe he was cheifely ſent for that intent.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The king of Englande requyred to haue the counterfeyte Duke of Yorke (otherwiſe named Perkin Warbecke) deliuered vnto him: but king Iames (eſteeming his honour more than anye earthly thing) woulde in no wiſe ſeeme to betray him that fled to him for ſuccor,An article for Perkin War|beck. and with whome he had coupled one of his owne kinneſwomen in mariage, but he was contented to couenant, that the ſame Perkyn ſhoulde be conſtrayned to de|part out of Scotland, and not to be further ayded by him, of [...] any other through his meanes or procurement.

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