Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Hereof they aduertised their princes, namelie Reuther or Reuda, who being descended of Fer|guse, Reuther or Reuda. determined to inuest himselfe in certeine por|tions of land beside the Picts. He therefore well ap|pointed passed ouer, and partlie by composition, and partlie by force, got possession of those quarters which were desolate, & began to erect a kingdome there, by little and little increasing his limits: and finallie got betwixt the Picts and Britons, possessing that countrie which tooke the name of him called Reu|dersdahall, and now Riddesdale (as you would saie) Rheudas part; for Dahall in the Scotish toong signi|fieth a part. In these quarters he could not setle him|selfe, but that he was oftentimes assailed by the Bri|tons that bordered next vnto him, and at length his chance was to be slaine, but the kingdome continu|ed still in the hands of his successors: and the Picts The amitie betwixt Scots and Picts. and Scots grew in friendship togither, permitting ech other to liue in quiet.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The Scots nestled themselues in the Iles and coasts alongst the sea side. The Picts held the middle part. But shortlie after, the peace began to hang doubtfull betwixt them: for the diuersitie of people, place, custome and language, togither with the me|morie of old grudges, mooued such gelousie and in|ward hate betwixt those nations, that it séemed they were readie to breake out into open dissention vpon Their f [...]ing out. the first occasion. And as in such cases there neuer EEBO page image 52 wanteth one deuise or other to raise tumults: it chanced that certeine of the Scotish nobilitie had got out of Greece (as some write) a Molossian hound, which both in swiftnesse of foot, and pleasantnesse of mouth, was accounted peerlesse. This hound being stollen by a Pict, was cause of the breach of peace; so Str [...] about a dog. that cruell wars thereof insued, as in the Scotish historie more at large appéereth. But where some write, that Eugenius should reigne ouer the Scots when this quarell [...]ell out for stealing of this hound, Hector Boetius saith, it was in king Crathlinths daies. Morouer it shuld séeme by that which the same Boetius writeth, that the hound or grethound for the which this trouble rose, was not fetched so far as out of Grecia, but rather bred in Scotland: notwith|standing bicause the Latinists call such kind of dogs Molossi, for that the first generation of them, or the like, came from a citie of Grecia called Molosse; it may be, that some haue thought that this gre [...]hound came from thense, for that he was so called after the name of that place from whense the bréed of him first came. But to returne to the historie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the Scots and Picts had tugged togither a while, at length one Carausius a Briton laboured a Carausius agreeth them. Anno Christi. 288 friendship betwixt them, and bringing his purpose to passe, persuaded them to lend him their helpe to expell the Romans out of Britaine: but his hap was shortlie after to be slaine by the Romane cap|teine Alectus. And so new sturs were in hand be|twixt the Britons and Romans, the Scots & Picts for the most part taking part with the Britons, till at length Maximus the Romane lieutenant found means to set the Scots and Picts at variance, and ioining with the Picts in league, vsed their aid against the Scots, whome he so earnestlie pursued with all the power he might make, that in the end they were vtterlie expelled out of all the coasts of The Scots expelled. See more of this matter in Scotland. 326 Britaine, so that they fled some into one part, some into another, but the most number got them ouer in|to Ireland, and the Iles, where they remained for the space of fourtie thrée yeares, and then at length re|turned thither, vnder the leading of their prince Fer|guse, being the second of that name, as they account him. From thensefoorth the Scots kept such foot in Britaine, that they incroched vpon their neighbors, in such wise as they waxed stronger than the Picts, whome in the end they quite rooted forth, and nestled themselues in their seats, although now at their first The Picts [...] foorth by the Scots. returne they concluded a firme amitie with the same Picts, that ioining their forces togither, they might the better make head against both Romans and Britons, whome they reputed as common eni|mies to them both.