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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scottiſh men were free from that infe|ction aſwel at that time,Scotland was free of the pe|ſtilence and plague. as alſo for many yeares after. Neither were they in maner troubled with any ſharpe feuers, or agues, till time that omit|ting the auncient and wholeſome ſpareneſſe of diet, which theyr fathers in times paſt had vſed,Riotouſneſſe the mother of ſickneſſes. they fell vnto riotous banquetting and exceſſiue feeding, whereby they became ſubiect vnto all kindes of diſeaſes, through malicious humors growing therevpon.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Colman biſhop of Lyndefer ſeing wonder|full EEBO page image 150 numbers of Engliſhmen, periſh dayly of that contagious ſickneſſe, by licence of the king, to a|uoyde the preſent daunger of death, which by ta|rying there he ſaw no meanes how to eſcape, he returned into Scotland with his diſciples, and after getting him ouer into one of the Weſterne Iſles,Colman ere|cted a mona|ſterie. he erected a monaſterie there, wherin he re|mayned during the reſidue of his life.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After the departure of Colman forth of Nor|thumberland, the people of that coũtrey ioyning with the Pictes, made ſundry roades into the Scottiſh bordures: whiche iniurie when Mald|wyne reuenged with more diſpleaſure done to them of Northumberland, than the Scottiſhmẽ had receiued, it cauſed the Picts & Northumbers to prepare themſelues with all ſpeede to haue made ſharpe warres againſt the Scottes: but in the meane time Maldwyne died,Maldwyn the Scottiſh king ſtrangled in his bed. [...] ſtrãgled in his bedde one night by his owne wife, vpon ſuſpition of gelow [...]e, for his vnla [...] company keping with an other woman. The next day af|ter ſhe was apprehended with thoſe that were priuy to the deede, and brent opẽly vpon an hill, according as ſhe had moſt iuſtly deſerued.

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