Compare 1587 edition: 1 Eganus mur|thereth his brother.Whileſt things paſſed thus in Scotlande, E|ganus the ſeconde ſonne of king Hungus the Pictiſh king, found meanes to murther his bro|ther Dorſtolorgus, to the ende he might raigne in his place: and through ſupport of ſome of the nobilitie he atteyned to his purpoſe. And for that he woulde aſſure himſelfe the more firmely in the eſtate, he frankly beſtowed his fathers treaſure a|mongſt his Lordes and chiefeſt peeres of hys realme, and tooke to wife alſo Brenna the king of Mertia his daughter, which his brother the fore|named Dorſtolorgus had maried, that thereby he might aſſwage the ſayde king of Mertia his diſ|pleaſure, which otherwiſe he ſhould happely haue conceyued for the death of his other ſonne in law the ſame Dorſtolorgus.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 His feare was great on eche ſide, and there|fore had ſmall affiance in any perſon,Eganus liueth in feare. doubting leaſt one or other ſhould ſeeke to reuenge his bro|thers death. He durſt neuer go any wayes forth abrode without a garde of men of warre aboute him, whome he had wonne and made his faſt friends by his paſſing great larges and dountifull liberalitie. At length yet, his wife in reuenge of hir former huſbandes death, founde meanes to ſtrangle him as he lay one night faſt a ſleepe, ha|uing drunke a little too muche in the euening be|fore,Eganus is ſtrangled of his Queene. and in this ſort he came to his ende after he had raigned much what about the ſpace of two yeares.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus both Eganus and Dorſtolorgus be|ing made away without leauing any iſſue behind them, for ſomuch as now there remayned none of the poſteritie of Hungus to ſurceede in gouern|ment EEBO page image 169 of the Pictiſhe kingdome, Alpine nephewe to the ſame. Hungus, by his ſiſter Ferguſiana, with the aduiſe of king Dongall, made clayme thervnto, and thervpon ſent his meſſengers vn|to the lords and peeres of the Pictiſh dominion, to require them on his behalfe,Ambaſſadour ſent vnto the Pictes. that he myght be receyued to the gouernemente of the kingdome due vnto him by lawfull inheritance, as they wel vnderſtode: and that if they throughly conſidered of the thing, they might perceiue it was the pro|uiſion of Almightie God, that for want of law|full ſucceſſion lineally deſcended from Hungus now to ſuccede in the eſtate of the Pictiſh king|dom, by this meanes both the nations Scottes and Pictes ſhould be ioyned in one, to the aboli|ſhing of all ſuch mortall warres, as by diſcorde and contention might aryſe betwixte thoſe two people, in lyke ſorte as before tyme there hadde done, to the great perill and danger of both their vtter ruines.