[1] And albeit in his youth he fell into certeine light crimes, and after by the companie and counsell of e|uill men, was induced vnto more heinous vices, yet was it thought that he purged the same by repen|tance, and patientlie suffered manie reproofes, and fi|nallie death it selfe (as before ye haue heard) after a most cruell maner. He had suerlie good cause to re|pent his former trade of liuing, for by his vndiscreet and wanton misgouernance, there were headed and put to death during his reigne (by iudgement of law) to the number of 28 barons and knights, ouer and be|side such as were slaine in Scotland by his infortu|nate conduct.