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Compare 1587 edition: 1 At length hauing remayned a ſeaſon in thys eſtate at Dublin, hee cauſed the Iriſhe Lordes to aſſemble in Counſaile,A peace con|cluded with Irelande. where in the ende the peace was concluded betwixte him and them, with theſe articles and couenants.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Firſt it was agreed that the yong king Dun|kane ſhould be brought vp vnder the gouernment of wiſe and diſcrete perſons,Articles of co|uenant. to be inſtructed in all Princely knowledge within a ſtrong Caſtell,Their yong king to be wel brought vp. (wherein he had hitherto remayned euer ſithe hys fathers deceaſſe) till he came to yeares of diſcre|tion.King Gregory to haue the go|uernment of the realme. And that in the meane tyme Gregorie ſhoulde haue the gouernaunce of the Realme, receyuing all the fortresses into his possession. He EEBO page image 199 He should also haue the appoyntment of the magystrates, He ſhould alſo appoynt the Magiſtrates. who should see iustice ministred according to the olde statutes and ordinaunces of the Irishe kingdome, that the Irish men should receyue neyther Englishe man, Brytaine, nor Dane, into theyr Countrey, No man to traficke Ire|lande without a paſport. no not so much as for trade of marchandise, without safeconduite to be graunted by him: so that things beeing thus brought vnto a quietnes in Ireland, he receyued an othe of the chiefest of them for performance of couenants, and herewith taking with him three score hostages, hee returned with his victorious army backe into Scotlande. King Gregory returned into Scotlande.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this, there chaunced no notable trouble to the Scottes, neyther foraine nor ciuill by all the time of king Gregories raigne, so that passing the residue of his life in quietnesse, he studied chiefly for the politike gouernment of his people in good order and rule to the aduauncement of the common wealth: and finally died an happy olde man, The king died in a Castell called Doundore within the Countrey of Garioth, in the .xviij. yeare after hys entring into his estate, and after the byrth of our sauior .893. 893 He was neuer maryed, but lyued in continuall chastitie: for his famous victories and other his princely doings deseruing of the Scottes to be numbred amongst their most high renowmed princes. Amongst other his princely actes which he set forwarde in his life time, to the adornement of his countrey amd common welth, Aberdine of a village was aduanced by him to the ſtate and dignitie of a [...], Aberdine is made a Citie. and the Churche there indowed with fayre reuenewes and ſundry priuiledges.King Gregory is buried in Colmkill. His bodie was conueyed vnto the Abbey of Colmkill, and there buryed with all ſo|lemne pompe and exequies. Ouer the which hys nexte ſucceſſour Donalde the fift of that name cauſed a fayre tumbe to be erected.

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