Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 3 This Dane by the good man of the houſe & his family for honour ſake, was called Lord Dane, which word was afterwardes turned to a name of reproch,The name of Lordain how it came vp. as where any idle perſon liued loitring without the vſe of ſome honeſt exerciſe to get his liuing withal, ye people were & yet are accuſtomed to cal him a Lordain. Thus farre out of Hector Boetius we haue ſhewed of Suenoes doings in Englãd, which although it agree not in al points EEBO page image 230 with our Engliſh Hyſtories, yet ſith the Hyſto|rie of Scotlande in this place ſeemeth partly to hang theron, we haue thought good to ſet it down as we finde it in the ſame Boetius: but aduerti|ſing the reader with all, that if our hyſtories bee true, this which followeth touching Suenoes in|uading of Scotland chanced before that Egelred whom the Scottiſh writers name Eldred,Sueno landed here this laſt time of his cõ|ming forth of Denmarke in|to England in July, in the yeare .1013. & departed this life in the be|ginning of Fe|bruarie, in the yeare .1014. was driuen to flee into Normandie. For after that Sueno laſtly returned into Englande, and con|ſtrayned Egelred ſo to forſake the lande, he lyued not long after, but departed this life about Can|dlenaſſe, in the yere 1014. (as in the Engliſh hy|ſtory ye may read more at large not hauing time to make any ſuch iourney into Scotland: ſo that it may be thought, if he did enterprice any ſuche ex [...]loyte there, it was before this his laſt arriuall in England. But now to proceed according to yt which we find in the foreſayd Boetius. Sueno hauing ſpoyled the Engliſh men of their liberties in maner before remẽbred, or rather brought them to becom tributaries vnto him, as at the firſt time of his arriuall here he did in deed, he thought it ne|ceſſarie for the more ſuretie of his eſtate in Eng|lande, to conclude ſome peace or league with hys neighbors the Normans, Brytains and Scots, vnder condition that they ſhould not ſupport any Engliſh man againſt him. But forſomuch as he could not compaſſe his intention herein, he furni|ſhed al the caſtels & fortreſſes on the ſea coaſtes, o|uer againſt Normandie with mẽ, munition, and vitails, to reſiſt al ſoden inuaſions yt might be at|tẽpted on that ſide. And on the other part towards the north,Sueno prepa|reth to inuade the Scottes. he made al the prouiſion he could deuiſe to make mortal warres vpon the Scots: and the more to annoy his enimies, he ſent commaunde|ment vnto Olauus his lieutenant in Norway,Olauus, and Onetus. & to Onetus his deputie in Denmarke, to come with al ye power they might leuie into Scotland, to make warres on his enimies there.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Danes land in Scot|lande.Wherupon ſhortly after thoſe foreſaid captains arriued with an huge army in ye mouth of Spay, and landed in ſuch puiſſant order, that the inhabi|tans of Murreyland fled out of their houſes, with their wiues, children, & goodes (ſuch as they could conuey away with them) into places where they thought to remain moſt out of daunger But the Danes after their maner burne & ſpoyle all before them, aſwel churches and chappels,The cruelty of the Danes. as other buil|dings & edifices. Such of the people as could not flee in time, but by chaunce fell into their handes, were ſlain without all mercie. Alſo al the ſtreng|thes and holds in the countrey were taken by the Danes, three caſtels only excepted: that is to wit, Elgin, Fores, and Narne, which the Danes na|med afterwards Burg, and for that they truſted when the ſame was woon, the other two woulde yeeld without any further defence, they firſt layde ſiege vnto this Caſtel of Narne,The caſtell of Narn beſieged enforcing them|ſelues with all their power to winne it, but in the meane time, they were informed how Malcolme the Scottiſh king was come within fiue miles of them with al the wares of his realm to giue them battaile.