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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But to returne to our purpose. King Kenneth ha|uing thus destroied the Pictish kingdome, togither almost with the whole nation, caused the marble stone (which Simon Breke sometime brought out of Spaine into Ireland, and the first Ferguse out of The marble stone is remo|ued from Ar|gile into Gou|rie, in the place called Scone. Ireland into Albion, as before is recited) to be brought now foorth of Argile (where till that time it had béene diligentlie kept) into Gourie, which regi|on before apperteined to the Picts, there to remaine from thencefoorth as a sacred token for th' establish|ment of the Scotish kingdome in that countrie: he placed it at Scone vpon a raised plot of ground there, bicause that the last battell which he had with the Picts was fought neare vnto the same place, the victorie (as before is specified) chancing to the Scots. Upon this stone (as before is rehearsed) the Scotish kings were vsed to sit, when they receiued the inue|sture of the kingdome. ¶ Some writers haue re|corded that by commandement of Kenneth, at the same time when this stone was thus by him remoo|ued, those Latine verses were grauen vpon it, where|of mention is made before, where we spake of the a|foresaid Ferguse the first his comming ouer foorth of Ireland into Albion there to reigne.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Now in the meane time, when those few of the The resi [...] of the Picts were disper|sed. Picts, which by flight had escaped the Scotishmens hands, and were gotten into England, could by no meanes persuade the Englishmen, being troubled with intestine warre, to aid them in recouerie of their countrie, some of them passed the seas ouer in|to EEBO page image 133 Norway, and some into Denmarke, and diuerse other of them remained still in England, where they got their liuing either by some manuall occupation, either else by seruice in the warres. The Scots from thencefoorth liued in quiet, during the life time of K. The Scots [...] in quiet. Kenneth, who deserued eternall fame, by the inlar|ging of the bounds of his kingdome, so mightilie and in such wise, that where he found the fronters, he made the same well néere the middest of his king|dome. Other things he did also touching the politike gouernement of his subiects in time of peace, no lesse woorthie of praise than his noble and famous conquests: but speciallie he ordeined certeine lawes for the wealth of his people, whereby his iudges and [...]nneth ma|keth lawes [...] ordinances. other officers should proceed in the administration of iustice, of the which I haue thought requisite to rehearse part as yet being vsed, that aswell the au|thor, as the time of their first establishment, maie the better appeare, vnto such as shall peruse this hi|storie.