Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus farre for thoſe two yeares warre in the dayes of Marie Queene of Englande, be|twixt the Engliſhmen and Scots, whereof ſith I finde none that hath written any thing at all, I haue yet ſette downe theſe odde notes, as I haue learned the ſame of ſuch as had good cauſe to knowe the truth thereof, beyng eye witneſſes themſelues of ſuche enterpryſes and exploytes as chanced in the ſame warres, namely capi|tayne Read, capitayne Wood, capitayne E|rington, and captaine Gurley, capitaine, Mark|ham, with others, whiche of their courteſie haue willingly imparted to me the reporte of diuers ſuch things, as I wiſhed to be reſolued in, which accordingly ſo farre as my remembrance hath ſerued, I haue here deliuered, to the end the ſame may giue occaſion to others (that may happely light vpon more full inſtructions) to imparte to poſteritie a more perfect diſcourſe, where other|wiſe the mater might peraduenture wholy paſſe in forgetfulneſſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 And now to returne vnto the Scottiſh Am|baſſadours that were ſent into Fraunce, for the cõcluſiõ of the mariage betwixte their Queene & the Dolphin: after that y^e ſame mariage was cõſummate, & euery thing ordered & brought to paſſe accordyng to the effect of theyr commiſ|ſion, in the moneth of Auguſt they tooke their leaue of the Frenche King, the Queene,The Embaſ|ſadours died almoſt all. and Nobilitie there, to retourne homewardes into Scotland, albeit fewe of thẽ came home, for the Biſhop of Orkeney departed this life in Diepe, the .xv. of September: the Earle of Rothes de|ceaſſed there the .ix. of Nouember: the Erle of Caſſiles departed in the ſame place the .xiiij. of Nouember:Three came home agayne. and the Lorde Flemming deceaſ|ſed in Paris the .xviij. of December. And ſo onely the Archebiſhoppe of Glaſquo,Lorde of Dun. the Prior of ſainct Andrews, and the Lorde of Dun re|tourned into Scotland in October.A Parliament. After whoſe commyng, there was a Parliament ſommoned by the Queene, to be holdẽ in December next.

This yeare alſo in Auguſt the Earle of Ar|gile deceaſſed, and likewiſe in September An|drew Durry Biſhoppe of Galloway, departed in Edinburgh, and Dauid Panton Biſhop of Roſſe deceaſſed the firſt of October in Striue|ling. In the Parliament holden in Edinburgh in December, the proceedings of the Ambaſſa|dours were allowed, and a diſcharge giuen to them for the ſame.