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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Nowe it came to paſſe that this Ferguſius was no ſooner come into Albion amongeſt the Scottiſhe men there,Ferguſius lan|ded in Albion. but that in a Parliament called and aſſembled in Argile for the purpoſe,A Parliament. they firſt conſulted after what ſort they myghte mainteyne themſelues againſt their enimies, and what order for gouernment ſhould be obſerued a|mongſt them: where finally for auoyding of ſuch inconueniences, as might riſe through many go|uernours, they decreed to chooſe onely one, whom in all things as their king and heade,A king is for to be obeyed. they would from thenceforth follow and obey.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 [figure appears here on page 7] BVt bicauſe there was none thought ſo meete to beare that office,Fergu|ſius. as Ferguſius,Ferguſius the firſt king in Scotlande. and that the chaire of hope was alſo broughte wyth him they cõclu|ded by whole cõ|ſent to commit that charge vnto him, & ſo to the great reioyſing of the people, he was placed vpon his marble ſtone, and crowned king, being the firſt of the Scottiſh nation that euer ruled in Al|bion as abſolute gouernour, who began his raign in the yeare after the creation of the worlde 3640, which is (as Hariſon ſayth in his Chronologie) before the incarnation of our Sauiour 327. after the buylding of Rome 420. and after the entring of Brutus into Brytayne 790.