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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There were séene the same yeere two comets or Prodigious tokens séene in the aire. blasing starres of dreadfull aspect to the beholders, the one went before the sunne rising in haruest sea|son, and the other followed the going downe thereof in the spring of the yéere. There was oftentimes al|so séene in the aire a vision of firie armies, running togither with burning staues, and the one being vanquished, they suddenlie both of them vanished a|way. Also at Camelon, as the bishop was at seruice holding his crosier staffe in his hand, it was kindled so with fire, that by no meane it could be quenched, till it was burnt euen to ashes. About noone daie, the aire being faire and cleare, as well in the countries of the Scots as of the Picts, there was heard such a noise and clattering of weapons and armor, with braieng of horses, as though two armies should haue béene togither in fight, whereby manie of either na|tion which heard it, were put in great feare. These The interpre|tation of thess tokens. vncouth woonders were interpreted by diuinors di|uerslie: some of them affirming the same to betoken ioy and happie prosperitie, and other alledging, how they signified rather mishap and vtter calamitie.