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You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 479 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 60)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Mogall hauing a mynde no leſſe gyuen to deedes of chiualrie, than to the ſtudie of ciuill go|uernment and religious deuotion,Mogall re|quireth reſti|tution of wrongs done by the Ro|maines. reioyſed that he had iuſt occaſion giuen him to ſhewe ſome proufe of his valiant inclination, and ſo herevp|pon ſent an Herald at armes vnto the Romains, requyring to haue reſtitution and amendes for the iniuries thus by them committed.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 480 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 60)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Heralde doing his meſſage, receyued nothing but ſcornefull wordes, and diſdainfull menaces,

Mogall pre|pareth to the warres.

Mogal viſi|teth his grand|fathers ſe|pulchre.

whereby Mogall beeing throughly kindled with deſpite, aſſembled his power togy|ther forth of all the parties of his dominions, and comming with the ſame into Galloway, viſited his grandfathers Sepulchre, honouring the ſame with great reuerence and ſolemne ſupplications, requyring as it were his ayde agaynſt thoſe e|nimies, which had violated the league made be|twixt him and them, by ſolemne othes and o|ther accuſtomed meanes of ratification.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 481 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 60)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This done, he drewe into Annandale,The Picts and Scots ioyne their powers togither and enter into the landes of their enimies. where Vnipanus as then king of the Pictes abode hys comming. There ioyning their powers togy|ther, they marched forth into Cumberland, and ſo forwarde into Weſtmerlande, with fire and ſworde, waſting and ſpoyling thoſe Countreys, as then belonging to the Romaines.

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