Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus was the peace renued betwixt the Scot|tiſh and Iriſh nations, to the no leſſe comfort of the Scottes themſelues, than of the Iriſhmen, as thoſe that had learned nowe by experience & tryall (hauing enioyed peace a good ſeaſon) howe much the ſame was to be preferred before cruel warres.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In this meane time, Charles,Carolus Mag|nus in league with the Scots. ſurnamed the great, as then raigning in France, and vnderſtã|ding how the Engliſh men did not only by dayly rouing diſquiet the ſeas, to the great danger of all ſuch marchants & other as trauayled alongſt the coaſtes of Fraunce and Germany, but alſo nowe and then cõming a lande vpon the French domi|nions, did many notable diſpleaſures to his ſub|iects, he thought good by the aduice of his peeres to conclude a league if it were poſſible with y^e Scots and Picts, with this article amongeſt the reſidue, That ſo oft as the Engliſh men ſhoulde attempt any enterpriſe or inuaſion into France, the Scots and Picts ſhould be readie ſtreight wayes to in|uade thẽ here at home: and when they ſhuld make any warres againſt the Scots or Picts, then the French men ſhould take vpon them to inuade the weſt partes of Englande.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There were ſent therefore from Charles vnto Achaius certain Ambaſſadors to bring this mat|ter to paſſe, who arriuing in Scotland,Ambaſſadors ſent into Scot+lande. & cõming to the kings preſence, declared effectually the ſun [...] of their meſſage, ſhewing that y^e cõcluſion of ſuch a league, ſhoulde bee no leſſe to the wealth of the Frenchmen, than of the Scots (conſidering the Engliſhmen to be a people moſt deſirous of all o|ther to get into their hands other mens goods and poſſeſſions) for thereby they might be ſomewhat reſtrayned from ſuch bold and iniurious enterpri|ſes as they dayly tooke in hande agaynſt theyr Chriſtian neighbors: but it ſhould make moſt of all (ſay they) for the aduancement of the whole Chriſtiã cõmon wealth, wheras otherwiſe throgh their inſolent doings, ſuch force as was alreadie EEBO page image 160 prepared againſt the Saraſins (the common eni|myes of the Chriſtians) ſhoulde be called backe, therewith to keepe off the ſayd Engliſhe men, to the great daunger of thoſe partes of Chriſten|dome, vpon which the Saraſins then bordered as neignbours.