Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At length when the citie was thus reduced into all extreme miserie, and the ditches filled with faggots A pretie craft vsed by Ken|neth. and other such stuffe, Kenneth one night appointed six hundred of his choisest souldiers to lie in ambush within a wood, ioining néere to one side of the citie, so that in the morning when he should giue the as|sault on the contrarie side, they might suddenlie come foorth and scale the walles on that other. These souldiers, according to that which they had in com|mandement, shortly after the breake of day, hearing that Kenneth had begun the assault on his part, quicklie came foorth of the wood, and hauing their lad|ders readie, came to the walles, reared them vp, and swiftlie getting into the citie, opened one of the The Scots enter the citie. gates where one part of the armie entered; the citi|zens standing in no doubt at all of anie attempt on that side: so as being gotten togither to defend the walles on that part where Kenneth gaue the approch, and now hearing how the enimies were got into the citie, and comming on their backs, they were woon|derfullie amazed, but yet so long as they were able to make anie resistance, they did what lay in their vt|termost power to beat backe the Scots, and to driue them out of the citie againe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The slaughter therfore was great which the Scots The Picts are miserablie slaine, with|out regard of person. made of the Picts in euerie passage & corner of the stréets, insomuch that the Scotish lords and other capteins, in reuenge of the late receiued losse of their men, through the false practised policie of the Picts, commanded in a great furie to set fire on the hou|ses, and to kill and slea all such of the Pictish nation as came in their way. Thus the murther proceeded vpon all estates, aswell religious as other, and like|wise vpon women and children, without anie diffe|rence. A number of ladies and gentlewomen, get|ting them into the presence of king Kenneth, be|sought Ladies and gentlewomen desire the king to be pardo|ned of their liues. him in most lamentable wise, to haue pitie vpon their wofull estate, and to saue their liues from the hands of his most cruell souldiers. But such was the rage kindled in the Scotishmens hearts, that there was no more fauor shewed toward them than toward the other, and so immediatlie were they also slaine without all compassion. So farre foorth was the murther executed on all hands, that there was not one left aliue of the Pictish nation, neither man, woman, nor child to bewaile that miserable destruc|tion All the Pic|tish nation destroied. The citie of Camelon is throwne downe. of their countrie and kinsfolkes. Then were the walles throwne downe & made euen with the plaine ground. The houses and buildings aswell priuate as publike, with churches and chappels, were set on fire, and that which might not be consumed with the rage of fire was ruinated and destroied with hand, so that there remained of all that famous citie, nothing but the ashes, with heapes of the broken and burned stones, and likewise of the pauement and foundati|on of some part of the walles.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At the same time the castell of Maidens, now called The castell of Maidens is left of the Picts. commonlie Edenbourgh castell, was still kept with a mightie garrison of Picts, but they hearing of the miserable destruction of Camelon, and doubting to fall into the like mischance, left the castell void, and fled to Northumberland. Thus ended the kingdome of the Picts in Albion, in the yéere after they first be|gan to reigne therein 1173, and in the yéere after the birth of our Sauior 839, from the first comming 839. 1421. H. B. 6038. H. B. of Ferguse 1166, and after the creation of the world 4806, if the Scotish chronicles be true. ¶ But where|as the truth concerning the time of the first com|ming into this Ile, aswell of the Scots as Picts re|steth daubtfull, and that aswell by authoritie of ap|prooued writers, as by reasonable coniectures, we haue in the historie of England more largelie writ|ten thereof; we referre those that be desirous to see further of that matter, vnto the same, following here in this historie of Scotland the report most an end, as we find it in Hector Boetius, and other the Sco|tish writers, not taking vpon vs so frankelie to set downe our owne opinion in this Scotish, as in the English historie, through want of such helpes in the one, as we haue got in the other.