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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 11 of 24: Edward the third, who came to the crowne by the resignation of his father Edward the second.
Snippet: 62 of 433 (1587, Volume 6, p. 352)

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Aberden burnt.

Tho. Walsin. Sir Thomas Rosselin slain.

In his returne he burnt the towne of Aberden, in reuenge of the death of a right valiant knight called sir Thomas Rosselin, that comming thither by sea tooke land there, and was slaine by the enimies: he burnt diuerse other townes and places in this voi|age, spoiling and wasting the countries where he came,The earle of Cornewall. not finding anie to resist him. About Lammas the earle of Cornewall with the power of Yorkeshire and Northumberland, and the lord Anthonie Lucie with the Cumberland and Westmerland men en|tred Scotland, and destroied the west parts, as Car|rike, and other which obeied not the Balioll. The lord William Douglas still coasted the Englishmen,The lord Douglas. dooing to them what damage he might. At length this armie loden with preies and spoile returned home, but the earle of Cornewall with his owne retinue came through to saint Iohns towne, where he found the king being returned thither frõ his iournie which he had made beyond the mounteins. The king staied not long there,Striueling castell built or rather repa|red. but leauing the king of Scots with his companie in that towne, he went to Striueling, where, on the plot of ground vpon which the destroied castell had stood, he built an other fortresse, called a Pile. And now, bicause he had spent a great deale of treasure in those warres of Scotland, he summoned a parlement to be holden at Notingham, in which there was granted to him a tenth of the cleargie, and likewise of the citizens and burgesses of good towns, and a fifteenth of other that dwelt foorth of cities and boroughes.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 11 of 24: Edward the third, who came to the crowne by the resignation of his father Edward the second.
Snippet: 63 of 433 (1587, Volume 6, p. 352)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the latter end of October, Iohn of Eltham earle of Cornewall the kings brother departed this life at saint Iohns towne in Scotland:The [...] of the earle [...] Corne [...]l his bodie was afterwards conueied to Westminster, & there buried with all solemne funerals. The Scotish wri|ters affirme that he was slaine by his brother king Edward for the crueltie he had vsed in the west parts of Scotland, in sleaing such as for safegard of their liues fled into churches. Moreouer, in December there deceassed at S. Iohns towne aforesaid,The dec [...] of Hugh de Fresnes [...] of Lincol [...]. Hugh de Fresnes, that in right of the countesse of Lin|colne was intituled earle of Lincolne. He died of the flix, or (as was said) through excessiue cold, which in those quarters in that cold time of the yeare sore af|flicted the English people. ¶ In the meane time, Walter G [...]|burgh. Thom. Wa [...]. a|bout the feast of saint Luke the euangelist, the king went with an armie into Scotland toward the castell of Bothuille, and comming thither repared the same, which by the Scots had latelie before béene destroied. The baron Stafford at the same time comming to|wards the king with a power of men,The lord Stafford. tooke Douglas Dale in his waie, taking in the same a great preie of cattell and other things.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 11 of 24: Edward the third, who came to the crowne by the resignation of his father Edward the second.
Snippet: 64 of 433 (1587, Volume 6, p. 352)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Before Christmasse the king returned into Eng|land, but the king of Scots remained all the winter in saint Iohns towne with a sober companie. When the king had setled the state of Scotland vnder the gouernement of the Balioll,A statute or|deined by [...] Scots in [...]|uour of [...] of England. those Scotishmen which tooke part with the Balioll, ordeined as it were in re|compense of king Edwards friendship a statute, whereby they bound themselues to the said king Ed|ward and his heires kings of England, that they should aid and assist him against all other princes: and whensoeuer it chanced that either he or any king of England being rightfull inheritor, had any wars against any prince, either within the land or without, the Scotishmen of their owne proper costs and ex|penses should find thrée hundred horssemen, & a thou|sand footmen well and sufficientlie arraied for the warre, the which thirtéene hundred men the Scots should wage for a whole yeare: & if the king of Eng|land ended not his warres within the yeare, then he to giue wages to the said number of thirteene hun|dred Scots, as he dooth to other of his souldiers and men of warre. There be that write, that the king of England should not onlie fortifie saint Iohns towne about this time, as before is mentioned, Polydor. but also saint Andrews, Cowper, Aberdine, Dunfermeling, with certeine other castels,Townes [...] by [...] Edwards [...] Scotland leauing garisons of men in the same. But for so much as ye may read sufficientlie of those troubles, in Scotland; and of the returne of king Dauid foorth of France, and how his realme was recouered out of the Baliols hands in the Sco|tish chronicles: we néed not here to make anie long discourse thereof.

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