The Holinshed Texts (1577, Volume 2, p. 31)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this, Metellanus raigned certain yeares in continuall peace and quietneſſe, euer readie to do the thing that might bee to the contentation and weale of his people.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Finally,Metellane de|parteth this worlde. 29. H.B. 14. H.B. hee paſſed oute of this life in the xxxix. yeare of his raigne, which was the .xxviij. after the byrth of our Sauiour, and .xiij. of Ty|berius the Emperour. Howbeit he left no iſſue a|liue behind him to ſucceede in the gouernment of the kingdome:

Caratake is proclaymed king.

This Caratake all the Brytiſh and Engliſhe a writers take to be a Brytaine, and inhabiting within that portion of the Iſle now called Englande.

for thoſe children which hee had begotten, hee buried in his life time, by meanes whereof one Caretake, ſonne to Cadallane, and nephewe to king Metellane by his ſiſter Eu|ropeia, was proclaymed King, as he that excel|led in ryches and puyſſaunt aucthoritie aboue all other the peeres and highe eſtates of the realme, and had not a little to doe in the adminiſtration of publike affayres in the latter dayes of his vncle Metellane.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 THe firſt thing he did after he was eſtabliſhed in the eſtate,Cara|take. he ſailed into the weſtern Iſles to appeaſe a rebellion moued by the Gouernour there. Which done, and the authours puniſhed, he returned into Aldion and came vnto Caricto|nium, whiche was ſometymes a famous Citie, and Metropolitane of Scotlande, ſituate with|in the Countrey cleped Carrycke as it appeareth by the ruynes there remayning euen vnto thys daye.