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Compare 1587 edition: 1 This cuſtome grewe into ſuche force, that it neuer might yet be abrogated amongſt them of the weſterne Iſles, but that euen vnto this day they haue theyr Lawiers amongſt them, with|out whoſe denunciation or decree taken out of the regiſter, no iudgement is reputed lawfull.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe were the actes and doyngs of kyng Doruadile, who in the .xxviij. yeare of his raigne departed this world at Berigonium, now called Dounſtafage, leauing behind him a ſonne called Reuther as yet not of ſufficient age to ſucceede in the eſtate.Nothatus. By reaſon whereof Nothatus the brother of Doruadille a man of comely perſo|nage and witte, apte (as was thought) to haue a Realme in gouernaunce, was crowned king by force of the law aboue remẽbred, debarring chil|drẽ vnder age to inherit in ſucceſſiõ of ye crowne.

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