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Compare 1587 edition: 1 To reherſe the troubles and great diſquietneſſe that chaunced during the minoritie of this king,The great diſ|quietnes raig|ning in Scot|land during the minoritie of Iames the fifth. through lack of due adminiſtration of Iuſtice, & by diſcord and variance dayly riſing amongſt the Lords & Peeres of the realme, a man might haue iuſt cauſe greatly to wonder therat, & in waying the ſame througly, no leſſe lament the oppreſſion done to the poore commons in that wicked and moſt miſerable time when iuſtice ſeemed to ſleep, and rapine with all the other ſortes and rabble of iniurious violence inuaded hir emptie ſeate, tri|umphing ouer all as a conquerour.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 The Queene ſent louing letters vnto the king of England hir brother, requiring him of peace, whervpõ a truce was takẽ betwixt ye two realms of Englande & Scotland for the ſpace of one yere & a day. In the beginning of Februarie, the king of England hearing that a Parliament ſhould be holden in Scotlãd for the bringing in of the duke of Albanie to be tutor,The king of England wry|teth to his ſiſter. wrote to his ſiſter that ſhe ſhoulde in any wiſe impeach & ſtay his comming thither, declaring howe daungerous it was, not only for hir, but alſo for hir ſonne to haue him go|uernor, which was to ſucceede if hir ſonne were once out of the way. But the chiefeſt cauſe that moued the king of Englande to labour that the Duke ſhould haue nothing to doe in Scotlande, was (as many thought) for that he knew how the Duke in fauour of the king of Fraunce woulde ſhewe himſelfe an enimie agaynſt Englande with all the force he might make or procure. And ſhortly after that the peace was cõcluded betwixt him and the king of Fraunce, he ſent a letter alſo, requiring him not to ſuffer the duke to paſſe into Scotland for the reaſon firſt alledged.The Duke of Albanie con|firmed tutor by Parliament. But not|withſtanding the labor that king Henrie made to the contrarie, it was concluded by the ſtates in Parliament aſſembled in Edenburgh at the time prefyxed, that ſir Patrike Hamilton, and Lio [...] king of Armes ſhoulde be ſent into Fraunce, to procure the Duke to come into Scotlande, being nowe confyrmed Tutor and Gouernour, accor|ding to the lawes of the Realme in ſuche caſes prouyded. Wherevppon in Apryll then nexte EEBO page image 424 following they tooke the Seas, and paſſed into Fraunce accordingly as by the eſtates had beene deuiſed.

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1514

A Legate from Rome.

This yeare came a Legate into Scotlande from the Pope, with certaine priuiledges granted to the king and realme.

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