Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Alexander taking ruth and pitie of him, reſtored him (vpon his fine to be payed in maner as was agreed betwixt them) vnto al his former honours,The Earle of Cathnes is pardoned, and reſtored to his landes. landes and poſſeſſions: Neuertheleſſe the offence that was pardoned by man, was af|terward puniſhed by the iuſt iudgement (as ſome thought) of almightie God: for he was ſlain as he lay in bed one night by his own menial ſeruants,The Earle of Cathnes is murthered by his ſeruants. whome hee had roughly intreated, as the fame went. The houſe alſo wherin he was thus ſlain, was likewiſe ſet on fire and burnt ouer him, that no man ſhoulde haue ſuſpition of his ſlaughter, but that it might ſeeme as though it had come by ſome ſodaine aduenture.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 About this time, or ſomewhat before, there came into Scotland ſent by Saint Dominicke,The firſt com|ming of black Friers into Scotlande. certaine blacke Friers, of whiche order the ſame Dominicke was the firſt author.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe men that were firſt ſent by him, lyued according to his inſtitution, more perfectly than ſuch as followed: for as it often happeneth, all things commonly from a good beginning fall into worſe eſtate, ſo that the ſucceſſors of thoſe men declined from al good religion, into moſt in|ſolent abuſes and miſorders, and ſo continu|ing in vicious liuing the ſpace of three hun|dred yeares, at length were perfectly refor|med into a better rule,Iohn Adam|ſon. by a Frier named Iohn Adamſon, that proceeded doctor in the profeſſion of diuinitie in the Vniuerſitie of Abyrdene, at the ſame time that Hector Boetius the Scottiſhe Chronographer proceeded there in the ſame fa|cultie.