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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But nowe to our purpoſe: Aſwell Hungus King of Pictes, as Achaius King of Scottes, after the ouerthrowe and death of Athelſtane ly|ued with theyr people in good quiet & reſt, for the Engliſhe men attempted nothing agaynſt the Scottes or Pictes afterwardes,

Achains depar|teth out of this life.

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during the time of their raignes. At length Achaius after hee had raigned .xxxij. yeares, departed thys lyfe, in the yeare of our Lorde .819. whiche was a|bout the ſixt yeare of Hungus his dominion ouer the Pictes

Compare 1587 edition: 1 His bodie was buryed in Colmekill, ac|cording to the maner of Kings amongeſt hys predeceſſours.

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