Compare 1587 edition: 1 But nowe to returne to the Scottiſh men. After the death of Ferguſe, the Nobles of the EEBO page image 11 Realme aſſembled togyther, to take councell whom they might chooſe to ſucceede in his place.The Scots cõ|ſ [...]lt about an other election of a king. Many of them in reſpect of the highe benefites whiche theyr nation had receyued by the politike gouernment of kyng Ferguſe, would not in any wiſe that his ſonnes, though young of yeares, ſhould be forgotten, but that according to reaſon & equitie, the eldeſt of them ſhould be elected, ſ [...]h they might not otherwiſe deliuer themſelues of the note of ingratitude towards his father, vnto whom they were more bounde than with toung might well be expreſſed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Other hauing a ſpeciall regarde to the quiet of theyr common wealth, doubted leaſt if they crowned a chylde to theyr kyng during his mi|noritie, it coulde not be, but that there ſhoulde follow ſtryfe, enuie, and contention, for the go|uernaunce of his perſon and realme amõgſt the Nobles, and that in ſuche wiſe, as the people be|ing diuided into ſundrie factions, the due admi|niſtration of iuſtice ſhoulde be neglected, the Nobles bearing and bolſtering vp all kindes of iniuries done or committed by any of their par|takers.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 And though it might ſo happen that they a|greed vppon one ſpeciall gouernour, as reaſon was they ſhoulde, yet ſhoulde he ſeeke to ad|uaunce his kinſfolkes more than reaſon happely required, and peraduenture do things other|waies muche diſpleaſant to no ſmall number of them, by that his priuate authoritie.