Compare 1587 edition: 1 The occaſion was, for that this ſir Dauid Berclay had aforetime ſlaine one Iohn Dow|glas, brother to the ſayd ſir William, and father to ſir Iames Dowglas of Dalkeeth.
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1353.
Io. Ma. Sir William Dowglas ſlain.
In the yeare folowing, was the ſame ſir Wil|liam Dowglas, being lately before ranſomed out of England, ſlain, as he was a hunting in Etrik Foreſt, by his couſin and godſon William Erle of Dowglas, in reuenge of the ſlaughter of Alex|ander Ramſey, and other olde grudges.