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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Further it was agreed, that for a perpetuall peace to be concluded, certaine Commiſſioners ſhould be appoynted to treate thereof at London, as afterwardes they did. For the king of Scot|lande there were ſent as Commiſſioners aboute this treatie, William Stewarde Biſhop of A|bardine, the Abbot of [...]in [...]os, & ſir Adam Ster|burie knight, the which accompanied with diuers other knightes, barons, and gentlemen, came to EEBO page image 442 London, and were there right honourably recey|ued the .xxv. of March,1524 after they had beene be|fore the kings preſence, there were certaine Com|miſſioners appointed by him to treate with them of peace,A peace con|cluded. the which agreed vpon certaine condi|tions and articles for a peace to continue betwixt both kings during their naturall lines, and one yeare after the deceaſe of that prince, which fyaſt chaunced to depart this worlde, and ſo the Com|miſſioners returned into Scotland in the moneth of May next enſuing.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ambaſsadors into France.About the ſame tyme, were ſent into France Dauid Beton Abbot of Arbroith, and Iames Erlkyn Secretarie as Ambaſſadors to require the Duke of Vandoſmes ſiſter in mariage for the King, with which motion the Ladie and hir friendes were verie well contented,The king him+ſelfe paſseth ſecretly into Fraunce. neuertheleſſe (as afterwardes ſhall appeare) the King himſelfe paſſing ſecretely into Fraunce in proper perſon, when he had once ſeene the Ladie, he liked hir not, and ſo became a ſuyter to the French king his el|deſt daughter Magdalen, whome hee obteyned, wherefore the duke of Vandoſmes ſiſter woulde neuer after match hirſelf with any other in mari|age, but profeſſed hirſelf in a houſe of Religion, where ſhe remained the reſidue of hir life time.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The king of Englande ſente Ambaſſadors into Scotlande, the Biſhop of Duriſme, Sir Thomas Clifforde, the Prior of Dureſme, and one Doctor Magnus, who were honourably re|ceyued [figure appears here on page 442] in the Moneth of Iulie,The peace con+cluded wyth England. and then was the peace before concluded by the Ambaſſadours at London, confirmed by the king himſelfe, and the charter thereof interchaungeably ſealed, with the great Seales of both the Realmes duryng the lyues of both the Princes, (as before yee haue hearde.)

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