Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 At their first comming, bicause they perceiued they could not liue without lawes and ciuill gouern|ment, They make lawes and or|dinances. Gouernors had in reue|rence. they seuered themselues into tribes, or as it were into hundreds, or wapentakes, euerie of the same hauing a speciall gouernor to see their lawes ministred, and iustice mainteined: which gouernors were had in such reuerence, that they were as much afraid to sweare by the name of any one of them, as they were by the gods. In this state they continued many a yéere, increasing in processe of time vnto a mightie nation, and liued in good rest without trou|ble They liue in peace. The Picts came into Scotland out of Germanie. of warres or inuasion made vpon them by any forren enimie. In this meane time also, the Picts, which were a certeine people of Germanie, as most writers doo agrée, came and set foot also in another part of Britaine, which now is comprehended like|wise within Scotland.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Some saie that they came foorth of the hether part of Scithia, and other there be which hold opinion, that they descended of the people named in old time Agathyrsi, which inhabited in a part of Sarmatia, and were called Picts, bicause they vsed to paint and colour their faces, or (as some suppose) for that they EEBO page image 32 vsed gaie apparell of diuers and sundrie colours; but the same writers generallie confesse, that they first came into Germanie or hither Scythia (that is to meane Denmarke) many yéeres before they entred into Britaine. Truth it is that they first came out The Picts came first into Orkeney, and changing their seats came into the maine land of Scotland, Pictland, Firth. of Germanie, into the Iles of Orkeney, and there inhabiting for a season, feried ouer into Cathnesse, whereof it came to passe, that the streict there at th [...] present is called Pictland fir [...]h: and so in continu|ance of time increasing in number, they passed fur|ther into the land, and got possession of Rosse, Mur|rey land, Merne, and Anguse, and after that, en|tring into Fiffe and Louthian, they droue such Bri|tains from thence as inhabited there before, which were but a simple kind of people, as those that ap|plied nothing but onelie nourishing and bréeding of cattell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 These Picts, as by conference of times may ap|péere, entred first into Scotland, about the yeare af|ter the creation of the world 3633, and being once arriued, they began to erect and build certeine forts, 4867 H. B. The Picts make strong holds. wherein they might defend themselues, if any force of enimies should chance to put them to such shifts; but perceiuing they could not continue any time without wiues to mainteine their stocke and proge|nie by bringing foorth issue, they thought it expedient to require of the Scotishmen some number of wo|men to marrie with, that thereby a sure aliance The Picts require womẽ of the Scots. might be had betwixt both nations, & that if néed re|quired, they might the better defend them from their common enimies the Britains, whom they knew would be loth to sée the increase of either Scots or Picts, as those that were stangers to them, and v|surpers vpon their confines.