Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this the Scotish estate continued many yeares in good quiet in Ireland, the people still in|creasing in wealth and puissance, till prosperitie the mother of contention, stirred vp grudge and parcia|lities amongst them, which shortlie would haue de|caied the force of the Scotish nation, if the ancient lords had not prouided redresse in time, which was to persuade the people to haue a king of their owne, who being partaker with none of them in their facti|ons, might haue the absolute gouernance of the whole, so that by common consent they sent into Spaine for one Simon Brech, whose name was Simon Brech. right famous amongst them in that season, both as well for that he was lineallie descended of the bloud rotall, as also for that he had shewed many proofes of his noble valiancie in sundrie affaires and busi|nesse. This Simon being glad of these ridings, sai|led Brechus came into Ireland. quicklie into Ireland, and brought thither with him amongst othor princelie iewels and regall mo|numents, the fatall stone of marble wherein he cau|sed himselfe to be crowned, in token of his full pos|session and establishment ouer that kingdome.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 B [...]echus being thus crownd, was the first king Brechus. that reigned ouer the Scots in Ireland, who [...] his reigne there, in the yéere from the creation of the world 3270, which time by master. Harisons, account is after the floud 1616, from the first buil|ding 4504 H. B. 60 H. B. 696 H. B. Fandufus. of Rome 55, after the entrie of Brutus into Britaine 870, and before the incarnation of our sa| [...]our 697. And hauing ruled his subiects with great iustice by the space of fortie yéeres or thereabout, he died, after whose deceasse succéeded Fandufus, who had issue Eth [...]on, and he begat Glaucus, which Glau|cus begat Noita [...]ilus, the father of Rothsay: all of them reigned successiuelie ouer the Scotishmen in Ireland, as in the description of that land more p [...]inelie may appéete.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This Rothsay (perceiuing the Scotish nation in|creased Rothsay. The Scots ferris ouer in|to the we|sterne Iles. to a greater multitude in Ireland than the countrie was well able to susteine) transported o|uer certeine numbers of them into the Iles anci|entlie called Ebonides, afterwards Hebrides, but now by the Scots, the westerne Iles, bicause they lie on the west halfe of Scotland: and there they pla|ced them to inhabit. He named also that Ile which he first began to possesse Rothsay, after his owne They inhabie the Ile of Rothsay. name. Which translation of these Scotishmen into those Iles was 133 yeeres after the coronation of Brechus.