[1] It is ſayde, that the Erle of Glouceſter,The ſaying of the Earle of Glouceſter (as the ſcots write but not lyke to be true.) K. Edwarde was no man ſo do be delt with. a mã of great prudence and authoritie in Englande, (ſeyng the Ballyol thus made king, and Robert Bruce without reaſon put backe) ſpake in thys ſort to king Edward: Oh king, remembre what is done by thee this day, ſparing to giue righte|ous ſentence in this matter, for though the ſame bee nowe couered and hidde, it ſhall be reuealed, when the great iudge that ſearcheth conſciences and the ſecretes of euery mans mynd, ſhal cauſe thee to anſwere for it at the dreadfull day of that vniuerſall iudgement: thou haſte nowe giuen ſentence on a king, but then ſhall iudgemente be giuen on thee.