[1] [2] A great companie alſo of ſuch vertuous and godly perſons as aboute the ſame time laboured buſily in ſetting forth the worde of life vnto the people in thoſe parties, fled with one Adrian as then Biſhop of the Scottiſh men, into the Ilande called May, whiche lyeth in maner in the mid|way of the paſſage ouer the Forth betwixt Fyfe and Louthian, where as thẽ there was a famous Monaſterie of Monks: but neither the reuerence of the place, neyther the innocencie of thoſe harm|leſſe creatures could refrain the Danes from pol|luting their wicked hands in murthering that de|uout companie,They that fled into May Ilãd were ſlaine. as they were then eſteemed. And this is that reuerend band of Martyrs, which the Scottiſh people haue had in ſuch reuerence in the foreſayde Ilande of May. A fewe names of ſome of that multitude as yet remaine in memorie a|mongſt wryters, as the foreſayde Biſhop Adri|an, Glodian, Gaius, or (as other write) Mona|nus Archedeacon of Saint Andrewes, and By|ſhop Stolbrande: the names of the reſidue are forgotten.The incertein|tie of wryters in this matter of theſe Mar|tyrs. Some there be that affyrme how this company were Hungarians, the whiche fleeing out of their countreys from the perſecution which was there exerciſed by men of miſbeliefe agaynſt the Chriſtians, they arryued here in Scotlande, and applyed themſelues in the inſtructing of the Scottiſhe men in the way of ſaluation. Other write that they were Scottes and Engliſh men thus aſſembled there togither, but of whence ſoe|uer they were, certaine it is that by cuſtome they were become Scottiſh men, & inſtructed Scots as before is ſayde in the way of ſaluation.