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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe were the principall Articles of the league, as then confirmed betwixte the Scottes and Frenchmen, indited in Latine, and fayre in|groſſed in parchment, & reſerued as a monument in both realmes, for a witneſſe vnto ſuch as ſhuld come after, of this friendſhip thus begunne, as the Scottes Chronicles affyrme.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 And for a further memorie of the thing,The armes of Scotlande. Achai|us did augment his armes, being a red Lion in a field of golde, with a double trace ſeamed wyth floure de Lyces, ſignifying thereby, that the Li|on from thencefoorth ſhoulde bee defended by the ayde of the Frenche men: and that the Scot|tiſhe Kings ſhoulde valiauntlye fight in de|fence of theyr Countrey, libertie, Religion and innocencie, whiche are repreſented by the Ly|lies, or Floure de lyces, as Herauldes doe inter|prete it.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Lord William, the ſayd Clement, and Iohn, remayned ſtil with king Charles, but Ra|ban and Alcuine returned into their countrey.

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