[1] Soone after Makduffe repayring to the bor|ders of Scotlande,Makduffe wri|teth letters to his friends in Scotlande. addreſſed his letters with ſe|crete diſpatch vnto the nobles of the realme, de|claring howe Malcolme was confederate wyth him, to come haſtily into Scotlande to clayme the crowne, and therefore he requyred them, ſith he was right inheritor thereto, to aſſiſt him with their powers to recouer the ſame out of the hãds of the wrongfull vſurper.