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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The picts hope is deceiued.The Pictes which had bene with the Engliſh men in this iourney, euer hoping to be reſtored to their landes and former poſſeſſions by Oſbert, when they ſawe how he reteyned the ſame in his owne handes, appoynting his ſubiectes to inha|bite therein, they doubted that which afterwards came to paſſe in deede, leaſt the Engliſhe men of friendes woulde nowe become enimies, ſeeking the deſtruction of the whole Pictiſhe generation, thereby to aſſure themſelues in the poſſeſſion of thoſe landes and liuings, wherevnto the Picts as they thought would euer make ſome clayme and tytle, whileſt any of them remayned aliue.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Vpon this miſtruſt therfore did thoſe Pictes which were amongſt the Engliſh men, make the beſt ſhift they coulde for themſelues, ſo that many of them got ſhippes,The picts were into Norwaye and Denmark. and ſayled into Norway & Denmark, vnto their coũtrey men there: the other that could not make ſhift to get away, were ſlain anon after by the Engliſh men, that one of them was not to bee founde aliue within any of the Engliſh Dominions. And ſuch was the ende of the Pictes that fledde vnto the Engliſh men for ſuccour.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In this meane tyme the Scottiſh king Do|nald being reſtored againe to his Countrey, was receyued with more ioy and honour than hee had deſerued, in hope yet by this ſcourge of aduerſe fortune, that he woulde haue reformed his former abuſes. Neuertheleſſe,King Donald falleth to hys old vices againe. he had not bin at home any long time, but that he fell to his old vicious trade of life againe, remouing from his companie ſuche honorable perſonages as wiſhed the ſuretie of his eſtate, with the aduãcement of the cõmon welth, to the reliefe and eaſe of his poore miſerable ſub|iects. At length the nobles of the realm perceiuing the daunger that their countrey ſtoode in, by rea|ſon of Donaldes inſolent miſorder, vndiſcrete rule and gouernment,King Donalde is laid in priſõ. they found meanes to ap|prehend and commit him vnto ſafe keeping, but the monſtrous creature within a fewe dayes after he was thus put in ward,

He ſlaieth him ſelfe in priſon.

860.

in great deſperation ſlue himſelfe, in the ſixt yeare after he began his infor|tunate raigne, & in the yeare of our ſaniour 860.

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