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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.)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The ſame yeare, the king paſſed through the north partes of his realme, and holding Iuſtice eers,Iuſtice mini|ſtred. cauſed Iuſtice, dulye to be miniſtred in pla|ces where he came agaynſt offenders.

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