Compare 1587 edition: 1 Herevppon the king himſelfe ſuppoſing that his preſence was needfull to encourage his peo|ple after this ouerthrow, came with a farre grea|ter power than he had ſente foorthe before, wyth diſplayed banner, ouer the riuer of Spay, nere to the mouth whereof he foughte with the enimies, and in the ende after ſore and long fyght conti|nued with greate ſlaughter and bloudſhead, hee gaue them the ouerthrowe,The Murrays are ouerthro|wen. and in reuenge of their cruelties ſhewed in tyme of this their re|bellion, and to giue enſample to all other hys ſubiectes that ſhoulde goe about to attempte the like, he commaunded that none of thoſe of Mur|ray lande ſhould be ſaued (women, children and aged perſons only excepted) but that all the reſi|due of that generation ſhoulde paſſe by the edge of the ſworde.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus the Murray land men being deſtroyed according to his commaundement thorough all partes of the realme, hee appoynted other people to inhabite their rowmthes, that the countreye ſhould not lye waſt without habitation.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In thys meane tyme,The Murrayes deſtroyed. Somerleid the Thane of Argyle (who as ye haue hearde was fled ouer into Irelande) vpon truſt of the hatred into the whiche Malcolme was runne with the moſte parte of all his nobles and commons thoroughe this ſlaughter of his people, and namely of them of Murrey lande,Somerleyd re+turneth into Scotland. he thought to aſſay fortunes chaunce once againe, and ſo therevpon returned with certain Kernes and naked men into Scot|lande: but this laſt enterpryſe of his came to a more vnluckie ende than the firſt,Somerleid vanquiſhed at Renfrow. for being van|quiſhed in batayle at Renfrowe, he loſt the moſt parte of all his menne, and was taken priſoner hymſelfe, and after hanged on a gybet,Somerleid is hanged. by com|maundement of the king, accordyng to that hee had iuſtly merited.