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You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 3793 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 441)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This yeare the Colledge court of Iuſtice cal|led the Seſſions,The Seſsions inſtituted. was inſtituted in Edenbourgh by the King, with conſent of the three eſtates in Parliament aſſembled, and after confirmed in Rome, in the which are fiftene Counſaylers or|dinarie, eight of them being ſpirituall perſons, of the which the moſt auncient is preſident, and ſe|uen temporall men, but ſo as by this number the Chancellor of the realme is aboue the preſident, when he is preſent. There are alſo foure coun|ſaylers extraordinarie, remoueable at the princes pleaſure.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 3794 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 441)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeare .1532. 1532 I finde little done to make account of, for the Earle of Angus remayning in Englande, coulde not perſwade the King of England in his fauour to breake the peace wyth Scotlande, though the ſame Earle earneſtly la|boured to bring that to paſſe.

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Compare 1587 edition: 1 But in the yeare .1532. ſir Arthure Darcy was ſent to the borders, who being at Barwike,

1532

Sir Arthure Darcie ſent to the borders.

by the counſaile of the Erle of Angus then being there, they made a roade into Scotlande, and burned certaine places,He maketh a road into Scotland. whervpon the Scots aſſembling themſelues to defende theyr Countrey, made to|wardes the Engliſhmen, who retyred themſelues to Barwike againe.

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