Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Hiber was a man of great courage, and more gyuen to the warres than his father before him, ſo that where his father contenting himſelfe with the boundes and limittes of the Countrey aſſigned him by compoſition, ſought no further (as is ſayde) to enlarge the ſame:Hiber a con|querour. Hi|ber ceaſſed not to conquere Cities and townes neare adioynyng to the borders of his ſubiectes, by reaſon whereof hys fame ſpredde ouer all thoſe parties: And in the ende conſtreyned his enimyes to ſeeke for peace,A peace. whiche hee willingly graunted: ſo that a league being concluded be|twixte the Scottes and Spaniardes, the ſame tooke ſuche good ſucceſſe,Spaniards and Scots become one people. that within certayne yeares after, both the Nations, what by ma [...]age and other contractes whiche they exerciſed togy|ther, became one: The ſucceſſion alſo of the Kings continued after Hibers deceaſſe in hys poſteritie a long ſeaſon. Amongeſt the whiche, Meteltus, Hermoneus, Ptolomeus, Hiberius, and Simon Brechus, were of moſt woorthie fame, as is recorded by ſuche as haue wry [...]ten the Hyſtories of that Nation more at large.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 [figure appears here on page 4] IN the meane whyle that theſe things were thus a doo|ing in Spaine,Heme|cus. Heme|cus beeing left,Hemecus king in Irelande. as is be|fore remembred in Ire|lande, to haue the go|uernaunce there, ru|led bothe the people of Scottiſhe men, and the former Inhabi|taunts, with as muche indifferencie as was poſſible: yet coulde he not ioyne them ſo in one,Diſſention. but that after his deceaſſe eyther of them woulde haue ſeuerall Rulers of their owne Nation to gouerne them: by reaſon whereof, falling eftſoo|nes at diſcorde amongſt themſelues, there enſued ſharpe and cruell warres betwixte them, whiche beeing ended ſome tymes by truce (when bothe partyes happilye were throughlye wearyed,) they renued notwithſtanding theyr malicious ſtryfe agayne, ſo ſoone as they had once recoue|red theyr decayed ſtrengthes, ſo that the one ſee|king the others deſtruction, they continued in great diſquiet for a long time.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe Scottiſh men being thus troubled in Irelande,The Scottes ſ [...]a [...]e Am|baſſadour vn|to Metellus in Spaine. finally addreſſed an Ambaſſade vnto Metellus, who as then raigned amongeſt the Scottiſhe menne in Spaine, requiring him of ayde and ſuccour agaynſte theyr enimyes, who went aboute wyth toothe and nayle to ex|pell all the Scottiſhe Nation out of Irelande, EEBO page image 5 which they were like ynough to bring to paſſe, if in time there were not ſpedy remedie through his ayde prouided for the contrarie.