Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 A great companie alſo of ſuch vertuous and godly perſons as aboute the ſame time laboured buſily in ſetting forth the worde of life vnto the people in thoſe parties, fled with one Adrian as then Biſhop of the Scottiſh men, into the Ilande called May, whiche lyeth in maner in the mid|way of the paſſage ouer the Forth betwixt Fyfe and Louthian, where as thẽ there was a famous Monaſterie of Monks: but neither the reuerence of the place, neyther the innocencie of thoſe harm|leſſe creatures could refrain the Danes from pol|luting their wicked hands in murthering that de|uout companie,They that fled into May Ilãd were ſlaine. as they were then eſteemed. And this is that reuerend band of Martyrs, which the Scottiſh people haue had in ſuch reuerence in the foreſayde Ilande of May. A fewe names of ſome of that multitude as yet remaine in memorie a|mongſt wryters, as the foreſayde Biſhop Adri|an, Glodian, Gaius, or (as other write) Mona|nus Archedeacon of Saint Andrewes, and By|ſhop Stolbrande: the names of the reſidue are forgotten.The incertein|tie of wryters in this matter of theſe Mar|tyrs. Some there be that affyrme how this company were Hungarians, the whiche fleeing out of their countreys from the perſecution which was there exerciſed by men of miſbeliefe agaynſt the Chriſtians, they arryued here in Scotlande, and applyed themſelues in the inſtructing of the Scottiſhe men in the way of ſaluation. Other write that they were Scottes and Engliſh men thus aſſembled there togither, but of whence ſoe|uer they were, certaine it is that by cuſtome they were become Scottiſh men, & inſtructed Scots as before is ſayde in the way of ſaluation.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this cruell ſlaughter thus by the Danes committed, they continued in their woode rage as they paſſed through Fife and the other countries neare bordering vpon the ſame, till all the inha|bitants were auoyded out of their houſes, either by flight or ſlaughter.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Conſtantine the Scottiſhe king being kind|led in the meane time with paſſing great diſplea|ſure, for theſe ſo notable iniuries receyued at the handes of the Danes, thought good with all ſpeed to go agaynſt them, and to attempt the chaunce of battaile before they had waſted any further within his dominions, ſo greatly to the dimini|ſhing of his royal power and eſtimation amongſt his ſubiects. Hereupon leuying his people,Conſtantyne aſſembled a mightie army. and aſſembling a mightie hoſt togither, he paſſed forth with the ſame towardes his enimies, the whiche were lodged in two ſeuerall campes, the one be|ing diſtant from the other aboute a quarter of a myle, ſeuered in ſunder with the courſe of a little ryuer called Leuyn, the which (vpon the approch of the Scottes vnto that parte of the campe that lay on the further ſyde next vnto them) chaunced to be rayſed on ſuch height through abundance of raine, that in two dayes after vneth it might bee paſſed ouer at the fourdes.