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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The day next after the battaile, the campe of the Brytains was rifled, and amongſt other rich ſpoyles,Queene Guay|nore taken. there was foũd Queene Guaynore Ar|thures wife, with a great number of other Ladies and gentlewomen.The ſpoyle of the Brytaines camp deuided The whole ſpoile of the camp and field being equally deuided by lottes betwixt EEBO page image 135 them, the Scottes had for their partes certaine fayre Charets, laden with rich ſtuffe and iewels, alſo horſes and armors, beſide ſundry noble men, which they had to theyr priſoners.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Vnto the Picts fell for their portion Queene Guaynore, with the Ladies and gentlewomen, and diuerſe other of the Noble men, beſides a greate quantitie of other riche pray and booties. Theſe priſoners which the Pictes had, were con|ueyed vnto a Caſtel in Angus,Dunbarre in Angus, not that in Lou|thian. called Dunbarre, a place of great ſtrength in th [...]ſe dayes, thoughe at this preſent there remayneth nothing but the name with the ruynes thereof. In whiche Ca|ſtell they were deteyned vnder ſure warde, du|ring the reſidue of theyr naturall lyues. In wit|neſſe whereof there be remayning vnto this day, the graues and monuments where manye of thoſe captyue Brytaynes were buryed in the fieldes of a towne in that Countrey called Me|g [...], not paſt ten myles from Dundee. But a|mongeſt the reſidue, that of Guaynore is moſte famous.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The fable of Queen Guay|nores graue buried in Angus.There goeth a plaine tale ouer all that coun|trey, tolde for an aſſured truth, that if any womã chaunce to treade vpon that graue, they ſhall re|maine barren withoute bringing forth any iſſue more than the ſayd Guaynore did. But whether this be true or not, certaine it is, as Boetius wri|teth, that there dare no women come neare, that graue: not only eſchuing it themſelues, but alſo commaunding their daughters to beware therof.

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