Compare 1587 edition: 1 After the deceaſſe of king Acho, his ſonne Magnus ſucceeded him, a fight faythfull prince, and one that had the feare of God before his eies.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the ſeconde yeare of his raigne, he ſent his Ambaſſadours (of whome the chiefe was the Chauncelor of Norway) vnto king Alexander,Ambaſſadours ſent frõ Mag|nus king of Norway to K. Alexander. whome they found at Saint Iohns towne and there ſignified to him that king Magnus theyr maiſter, would willingly giue ouer all his tytle, right and clayme vnto Arrane and Bute, ſo that the reſidue of the Iles might remaine in quiet poſſeſſion of him and his ſucceſſours in tyme cõ|ming. Herevnto was anſwere made by K. Alex|ander, that the Iles by right of olde inheritance perteined vnto him and his progenitors kings of Scotland, and therefore he might not make any agreement with the Danes or Norwegians, til he had recouered the ful poſſeſſion of y^e ſame Iles.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In time of the trouble be|twixt the ſcenes of Mal|colm Cãmore and their vncle Donald Bane, Magnus K of Norway the ſon of Olaue ſubdued theſe Iles.The Ambaſſadors being diſpatched and ſent away with this anſwere, incontinently Alexan|der Stewart of Paſley, and Iohn Cumyn were ſent with an armie ouer into Man, which Iſle they then recouered (though not without bloud) forth of the handes of the Danes and Norwe|gians, who had kept the ſame in poſſeſſion nowe for the ſpace of 167. yeares paſſed, but not with|out ſome alteration and trouble, as may appeare by the annales of Richard Southwell,Ri. Southwel. a writer (as ſhould ſeme) wel inſtructed in matters aſwel touching Scotland and the North partes, as al|ſo concerning the ſtate of the out Iles. And ther|fore that the ſame maye the better appeare to the Readers, I haue thought it not impertinent to ſet downe what I haue read in the ſame South|well, touching the kings, or rather viceroyes of Man, and thoſe Iles which for a ſeaſon as ſhuld ſeeme in deede, were ſubſtituted by the kings of Norway, although it may alſo appeare, that ſomtime there was a certaine ſucceſſion in them, as from the father to the ſonne, and from the bro|ther to the brother, &c. in maner as if it had beene by way of inheritance.