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Compare 1587 edition: 1 After their returne from Glaſquo, a certaine number of Frenchmenne went to Striueling, and paſſing by the bridge ouer the water of Firth, came into Fiffe, in purpoſe to haue gone vnto Saint Andrewes, and to haue fortified the Towne, but they being in Kingcorne, there aſ|ſembled togyther in Fiffe the Earles of Arrane and Rothes, the Prior of Saint Andrewes, the Lord Ruthuen, the Maiſter of Lindſey, and di|uers other, hauing with them no greate num|ber,Certaine frenchmenne ſlaine. but yet they daylye ſkirmiſhed with the Frenchmen, and would not ſuffer them to come from the Seaſyde, where diuers Frenchmenne were ſlayne, and one of their Captaynes, with thirtie of his Souldiers, and few Scottiſhmen or in manner none, excepte that the Earle of Southerland, who chanced to be with them at the pricking, was ſore hurt in the arme with the dredge of a calliuer ſhot.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 As the Frenchmen were in their progreſſe, at the mouth of the water of Leuin in Fiffe, there arriued in their ſight a nauie of Shippes, which at the firſt kenning, they tooke to be frẽch Shippes, but ſhortly after, perceyuing them to be the Engliſh nauie, they returned with greate diligence to Brunt Iland,The Towne Burnt Ilande is fortified. where they paſt the ferrie of Kingcorne in boates and crayers to Leith, and inſtantly beganne to fortifie that Towne, caſting greate trenches about it, and making great blockhouſes for their defẽce. The Engliſh Shippes came to the roade of Lieth,An Engliſhe nauye. where they caſt ancars the [...] day of Ia|nuary.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Queene Regente ſente vnto the Vice Admirall of that fleete, named Maiſter Win|ter, requiring to knowe of him, for what cauſe hee was come into thoſe waters, who aunſwe|red, that he had bin abrode on the Seas ſeeking after Pirates, and in caſe anye of them came thither, hee was arriued there in the Forthe to waite on them, where the principall cauſe in|deede was to impeache, that no Frenchman ſhoulde lande there, in caſe any came forthe of Fraunce, and alſo to keepe thẽ that lay in Inſ|keith from vittayles, and that no Frenchman ſhould paſſe by Sea forth of Leith.

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