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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But where as the truthe concernyng the tyme of the firſte comming into this Iſle, aſwell of the Scottes as Pictes reſteth doubt|full, and that aſwell by authoritie of appro|ued wryters, as by reaſonable coniectures, wee haue in the Hiſtorie of Englande more largely EEBO page image 180 written thereof. Wee referre thoſe that bee deſi|rous to ſee further of that mater, vnto the ſame, following here in this hiſtorie of Scotlande the report moſt an ende, as we finde it in Hector Boetius, and other the Scottiſhe wryters, not taking vpon vs ſo frankely to ſet downe our owne opinion in this Scottiſhe, as in the En|gliſhe hiſtorie through want of ſuche helpes in the one as we haue got in the other.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There was ſeene the ſame yeare two [...] co|metes,Prodigious tokens ſeene in the ayre. or blaſing ſtarres of dreadfull aſpect to the beholders, the one went before the ſunne ryſing in harueſt ſeaſon, and the other followed the go|ing downe thereof in the ſpryng of the yeare. There was often times ſeene alſo in the ayre a viſion of fi [...]ie armies, runnyng togither with brennyng ſtaues, and the one being vanquiſhed, they ſodenly bothe of them vaniſhed away. Al|ſo at Camelon as the Biſhoppe was at ſeruice holding his croſier ſtaffe in his hande, it was kindeled ſo with fire, that by no meane it coulde be quenched til it was brent euen to aſhes. About noone dayes, the ayre being fayre and cleare, as well in the countreys of the Scottes as of the Pictes, there was heard ſuch a noyſe & clattering of weapons and armure with braying of horſes, as though twoo armies ſhoulde haue bene togi|ther in fight, whereby many of eyther nation which heard it, were put in great feare.