Compare 1587 edition: 1 The one nation ſeeking thus to bee reuenged of the other,Open warre. there enſued open warre betwyxte them:Scottes ſende for ayde into Irelande. wherevpon the Scottiſhe men, to the ende they mighte bee the better able to maintaine their quarell, ſent ouer their Ambaſſadours vnto their kinneſmen in Irelande, requyring them of ayde in that preſent daunger, as hauing nowe not onely warres with the Pictes, but alſo wyth the Brytaynes, who mynded nothing, but the vtter deſtruction of them and their linage, ex|cept ſpeedie remedie were founde.They require a gouernour. And for that they ſaw it needefull, to haue one onely head and gouernor, they made ſute alſo to haue ſome cap|tayne of honour wyth them into Albion, vnto whome as vnto their king they woulde ſubmyt themſelues.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ferguhardus king in Ire|lande.In that ſeaſon amongeſt the Iriſh Scottiſhe men, there raigned a king named Ferguhardus, who inclyning to the petition of the Brytiſhe Scots, cauſed an huge army forthwith to be le|uied, & thereto he appoynted his owne ſonne Fer|guſius to be general of the ſame,Ferguſius ſent into Scotland. a worthie yong gẽtleman, and an expert warriour: whom he ſent ouer with this puiſſant cõpany, with ſuch ſpeede as was poſſible. He had alſo with him the mar|ble ſtone,The marble ſtone. that he might conceyue the better hope to raigne there as a king, bycauſe he went foorth vnto ſuch a daungerous warre.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Such alſo as went with him in this iourney, had theyr wyues, their children, and all theyr ſubſtance with them, as the maner of the nation then was, when they went forth into any foreyn countrey.