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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Ladye Glames and hir husbande conuict of treaſon.In the Sommer of this yeare, the Ladie Glames, Syſter to the Earle of Angus was apprehended, and likewyſe hir Huſbande Da|uid Lion, and both of them brought to Eden|bourgh, where they were accuſed and conuict by an aſſiſe, for conſpiracie of the kings death: the ſayd Lady was burned, and hir huſband hanged, hir ſonne the Lord Glames, was alſo conuict for miſpriſion and concealement of that crime, and therefore forfalted of his landes, and condemned to die: but bycauſe he was yong and of tender yeares, the king pardoned him of life, and com|maunded him to perpetuall priſon, in the whiche he remayned ſo long as the king liued.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The maſter of Forbes be|headed.Shortly after Iohn maiſter of the Forbes, and eldeſt ſonne to the Lord Forbes, who had maried a ſiſter of the ſayd Ladie Glames, was at Eden|bourgh likewiſe indyted and conuict by an aſſiſe for the like conſpiracie of the kings death, for the which he was beheaded and quartered, and hys heade and quarters ſet aloft vppon the gates of Edenbourgh. His father the Lorde Forbes vpon ſuſpition of the ſame conſpiracie was long after kept in priſon within the caſtell of Edenbourgh, but at length when nothing might be proued a|gainſt him, he was releaſed and ſet at libertie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Iuſtices ap|poynted to ſit in diuerſe partes of the realme.This yere the king in September cauſed Iu|ſtices to ſit in the north partes of the realme, and likewiſe in October, and in the winter following he cauſed the like to bee done in the South and weſt parts.

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