Compare 1587 edition: 1 But theſe beneficiall priuiledge the Pictiſhe clergie di [...] not lõg enioy.Feredeth ta|keth from the Cleargie their priuiledges. For Feredeth that was the [...] which raigned amongſt the Pictes af|ter Hungus tooke from them all ſuche giftes as this Hungus, had giuen them, and further or|deyned to the derogation of their Priuiledges, that they ſhoulde anſwere [...] ſecular [...]mes afore ſecular MagiſtratesAnd why not? And that lyuing vppon theyr former reuenewes,Prieſtes to be tryed afore ſecular iudges. Souldiers and menne of warre ſhoulde enioye the other whiche Hungus had ſo freely beſtowed vpon them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Nobles of the land mainteyned Fere|deth in his doings, reckening all that ſpirituall perſons had to be but caſt away, which was the cauſe (as ſome thought) that theyr King|dome take into ſuche ruine, as ſhortly after fol|lowed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There bee ſome Chronicles that wryte how theſe things whiche are mencioned of Hungus, and Athelſtane, chaunced not altogyther aboute this ſeaſon, but Hector Boetius followeth [...]e|rem [...]nd in moſte of his accounte, as the authour whome he taketh to be moſt certaine, as well for the accounte of the tyme as in the courſe of the whole Hyſtorie. And for that we meane not to preſume wholy to derogate the ſame Boetius his credite wee haue not muche diſſented from hym, but rather followed him in moſt places, leauing ſuche doubtes as may bee worthily put forth of that which he wryteth, vnto the conſideration of the diligent Reader, ſithe it is not our purpoſe to impugne, but rather to report what wee finde written by other, except nowe and then by the way to admoniſhe the reader of ſome vnlikely|hoodes, (as the ſame doth ſeeme to vs and other,) and happely not without iuſt occaſion.