The Holinshed Texts (1577, Volume 2, p. 179)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ladies and Gentlewomen deſire the king to bee par|doned of their liues.A number of Ladyes and Gentlewomen, gettyng them into the preſence of kyng Ken|neth, beſought him in moſte lamentable wiſe, to haue pytie vpon theyr wofull eſtate, and to ſaue theyr lyues from the handes of his moſte cruell ſouldiers. But ſuche was the rage kind|led in the Scottiſhmens hartes, that there was no more fauour ſhewed towardes them than to|wardes the other, and ſo immediatly were they alſo ſlayne without all comp [...]lſion.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 So farre foorth was the murder executed on all hands,

All the Pictes natiõ deſtroy|ed.

The citie of Camelon is throwẽ down.

that there was not one left aliue of the Pictiſh nation, neither man, woman nor childe to bewayle that miſerable deſtruction of theyr countrey and kinſfolkes. Then were the walles throwen downe and made euen with the plaine grounde. The houſes and buyldings aſwell pri|uate as publike with the churches & chapels were ſet on fire, and that which might not be cõſume [...] with the rage of fire was ruynate and deſtroyed with hande, ſo that there remayned of all that famous citie, nothing but the aſhes with heapes of the broken and brenned ſtones, and likewiſe of the pauement and fundacion of ſome parte of the walles.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The ſame time the caſtell of Maydens now called commonly Edenburgh caſtell was ſtill kept with a mightie garyſon of Pictes,The caſtell of Maydens is left of the Pictes. but they hearing of the miſerable deſtructiõ of Camelon, and doubting to fall into the like miſchaunce left the caſtel voyde, and fled into Northumberland. Thus ended the kingdome of the Pictes in Al|bion in the yeare after they firſte began to reigne therein .1173.839. 1421. H. B. 6038. H. B. and in the yeare after the byrth of our ſauiour .839. from the firſt cõming of Fer|gus .1166. and after the creation of the worlde .4806. if the Scottiſh chronicles be true.