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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Pictiſh nobilitie hauing knowledge that theſe meſſengers with ſuche kynde of meſſage ſhould ſhortly come from Alpine,The Pictes choſe Feredeth to be king. with generall conſent and whole agreemente, choſe one Fere|deth to be their king, a man of greate authoritie amongeſt them, ſuppoſing this to be a meane to defeate Alpines title, and that thereby he ſhoulde ſeeme to be excluded from any further clayme.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Within fewe dayes after, came vnto Came|lon the Scottiſhe ambaſſadors, where Feredeth with his nobles at that preſente were aſſembled:The ambaſſa|dours come in|to the courte. they being admitted therfore to declare their meſ+ſage, when they began to enter into their matter of the right which Alpine had to the kingdom of the Pictes, the people woulde not ſuffer them to proceede any further therein, but began to make ſuche an vprore, that to appeaſe the noyſe, Fere|deth himſelfe tooke vpon him to make aunſwere vnto the Ambaſſadors, and thervpon comman|ding ſilence, declared vnto them that the Pictes neyther might nor ought to admitte any ſtran|ger to reigne ouer them:King Feredeth his anſweare vnto the Sco|tiſhe ambaſſa|dours. for there was an ancient lawe amongſt them, of moſte high authoritie, that in caſe of neceſſitie they might tranſpoſe the crowne from houſe to houſe: And further, that by the ſame law ther was an ordinance decreed, that if any man were once made & created king, he might not be depoſed during his natural lyfe. And therfore though it were ſo, that Alpine were the nephewe of Hungus by his ſiſter Ferguſi|ana, yet bicauſe he was a ſtraunger borne, and cõſidering withal, that the people by their ful au|thoritie had tranſlated the regall adminiſtration vnto an other houſe, of the whiche one was al|readie proclaimed and inueſted kyng, there was no reaſon nowe, why Alpine ſhoulde make any further clayme or demaunde vnto the kingdom.