Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 AFter this they proclaimed Reuther king, and crowned him with all due solemnitie, diuers of Reuther. the nobles of the realme being highlie displeased Reuther crow+ned king. Diuers lords offended. therewith, for that they iudged it not onelie a great offense to haue the king thus traitoroustie murthe|red, but also saw hereby the ancient ordinance of choosing their king through consent of the people, to be broken by the wicked attempt of a priuat person, & an vnskilfull yoong man aduanced to the crowne, contrarie to the decree of an autentike law. Among other one Ferquhard the sonne in law of Nothatus Nouantia. gouernor of Lorne and Cantir, called an assemblie I conspiracie of Ferquhard against Do|ualus. Ferquhard fled into Ila. of the people, and began to declare what enormities were like to insue through this tyrannicall attempt of Doualus. Doualus hearing whereabout Fer|quhard went, hastilie came to the place where this as|semblie was made, and there sleaing diuers of the chiefe, he did put Ferquhard also in great hazard of his life, who by flieng yet escaped his hands, and got him ouer into the Ile of Ila, whither resorted vnto him diuers of the nobles (that fauored not Douale) with a great number of the commons.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the end, Ferquhard persuaded his compani|ons to set all feare apart, and to returne with him Ferquhard re+turneth into Scotland for to reuenge his iniurie. into Scotland to take reuenge of Douale and his complices, being traitors and enimies to the realme and common-wealth, so that first ioining hands, which they did wet in mans bloud (according to the custome then vsed) they promised one to another to liue and die in the quarell, and after imbarking themselues in certeine vessels, they entred the sea, and passed ouer into Scotland, where gathering to|gither no small number of such as willinglie resor|ted vnto them to their aid, they encountred with Douale in battell, whose host twise in one daie was put to flight néere to the citie Beregonium with the losse of eight thousand men.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The night parted the fraie, but in the next mor|ning, Douale and his partakers through great in|dignation conceiued, for that they were so beaten backe by Ferquhard (hauing in all his host not past 10000 persons) fiercelie came foorth of their tents to giue battell afresh, and finding their enimies rea|die to receiue them, there was fought so cruell a battell betwixt them, that in the end either part be|ing sore trauelled with slaughter and long fight, was glad to giue place to the other, not passing an eight hundred of all those that were present that daie in Douale is slaine. the field as then being left aliue. Upon Douales part there was slaine Gethus king of Picts, whose daughter king Reuther had married, with a great number of his people: also Douale himselfe with di|uers of the nobles of Scotland, beside gentlemen & Ferquhard is slaine. cõmons that tooke part with him. On the contrarie side there died also Ferquhard himselfe with diuers gouernors of tribes, beside the residue of the nobles, gentlemen & cõmons of Rosse, Cathenesse, Marne, Argile, Cantire, and Lorne, with them of the we|sterne Iles which were there with him.