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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The king of France requy|red ayd againſt England.The French King, and the Duke of Gelder|lande perceyuing that the king of Englande was mynded through procurement of the Pope and others, to make them warres, eyther of them ſent Ambaſſadors into Scotlande vnto king Iames, requyring his aſſyſtance agaynſt England: but king Iames mynding to mainteyne peace and concorde betwixt the parties,King Iames perſwadeth to peace. ſent an Ambaſſa|dor vnto the king of Englande, deſiring him in brotherly and moſte louing wife to liue in peace and quietneſſe, and not to make anye warres a|gaynſt his confederate friendes, offring himſelfe to take in hande to agree and compound any dif|ference that was fallen betwixt the king of Eng|lande and the ſayde Princes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The king of Englande who had alreadie ſent ayde vnto the Ladie Regent of the lowe Coun|treys agaynſt the Duke of Gelderlande, made ſuch fayre anſwere herevnto as he thought ſtoode wyth reaſon, and ſo diſpatched the Ambaſſadour backe againe to his maiſter without any more a doe in that matter, aboute the which he came for that tyme.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The kings ba|ſtard maried.Iohn Lorde Gordon, ſonne and heyre to A|lexander Go [...]don Earle of Huntley, returned out of Fraunce, and was maried vnto the Kings ba|ſtarde daughter in Nouember following in thys preſent yeare .1512. of whom the houſe of Hunt|ley is deſcended.1512

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