Compare 1587 edition: 1 By this meanes then were children exclu|ded from obtayning the crowne, leaſt the pu|blike libertie of the realme might chaunce to be put in daunger. But yet was it afterwardes per|ceyued that this deuiſe for chooſing of kings, mi|niſtred occaſion ſometimes to the vncle to ſeeke the deſtruction of the Nephew, and likewiſe to the Nephew to procure the diſpatche of the vn|cle and vncles Sonnes,The chooſing of kings was not alowed. with the committing of many haynous murders of right woorthie prin|ces, to the no ſmall daunger of ouerthrowing the whole ſtate of the commune wealth, ſo that finally that ordinance was clearly abrogated, as you ſhall heare hereafter.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 [figure appears here on page 11] BVt nowe to my pur|poſe.Feri|tharis. After Feri|tharis with the full conſente of al the people was thus elected king, hee was inthro|nized with all ſo|lempnities in re|ceiuing his king|ly ornamẽts, as his two edged ſword,A two edged ſword. his Scep|ter royal, & his crown of gold faſhioned in forme of a rampire made for defence of a towne or for|treſſe, ſignifying that hee tooke vppon him to preſerue the libertie of his countrey to ſee of|fendours duely puniſhed, and the execution of lawes with equall iuſtice truely miniſtred.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe ornamentes of inueſture remayned vnto the Scottiſhe kings, without being in a|ny poinct chaunged, till the dayes of Achaius kyng of Scotlande, who eſtabliſhing a perpe|tuall league with Charles the greate Empe|rour and king of Fraunce,The crowne chaunged. to endure for euer betwixte the Scottes and French menne, ad|ded vnto the crowne foure Flower de Lyces to|gither with foure croſſelettes deuided in ſun|der by equall ſpaces, riſing ſomewhat higher than the Flower de Lyces that thereby the ob|ſeruing of the Chriſtian Religion and ſincere faithe, maynteined by the Scottiſhe nation, might be the more euident to all men that be|helde it.