Compare 1587 edition: 1 He alſo put to death diuers honorable perſo|nages,His coſin Car|dorus & other ſuche as hee perceyued to grutche at his doings. Hee likewiſe purpoſed to haue made a|way the Sonnes of his predeceſſour Corbreide, but his trayterous practiſe being diſcloſed,The commõs rebell. the moſte parte of the Nobles and commons of the Realme rebelled againſt him, and ſending for Corbreide Galde the eldeſt ſonne of the former Corbreide, remayning as then in the Iſle of Man, (where hee ſhoulde haue bene murthered) they choſe him to their King. And at length beating downe all ſuche as made reſiſtance, they gotte that cruell tyrant Dardane into their handes, and bringing him foorth before the mul|titude,Dardane is beheaded. they cauſed his heade to bee openly ſtri|ken of.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 But to returne to Dardan, in the beginning of his reigne he gouerned the estate by good indifferent iustice, but after he had continued therein by the space of two yeares, he began to fall into all kinds Dardan fal|leth into all kind of vices. of vices, remoouing from offices such as were vp|right bearers of themselues in the same, and ad|uancing to their places bribers and extortioners. The nobles he had in suspect, fauoring onelie such as thorough flatterie were by him preferred. And where he was drowned beyond all the terms of hone|stie in fleshlie and sinfull lust, yet was his couetous|nesse so great, that all was too little which he might lay hands vpon. He also put to death diuers hono|rable personages, such as he perceiued to grudge at His cosin Ca|dorus and o|ther. his dooings. He likewise purposed to haue made a|way the sonnes of his predecessor Corbreid, but his traitorous practise being disclosed, the most part of the nobles and commons of the realme rebelled a|gainst The com|mons rebell. him, and sending for Corbreid Gald the eldest sonne of the former Corbreid, remaining as then in the Ile of Man (where he should haue béene mur|thered) they chose him to their king. And at length beating downe all such as made resistance, they got that cruell tyrant Dardan into their hands, & brin|ging Dardan is beheaded. 75. H. B. 6 of Vespa|sian. H. B. him foorth before the multitude, they caused his head to be openlie stricken off. This was the 81 yeare after the birth of our Sauiour, being the first of the emperour Domitian, & the fourth complet of his owne reigne ouer the Scotishmen.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 COrbreid Gald being thus chosen (as I haue said) Corbreid Gald. Galdus other wise called Galgacus, not a Scot but a Britaine as other thinke. to succéed in the gouernment of Scotland after Dardan, is called by Cornelius Tacitus Galgacus, a prince of comelie personage, and of right noble port. In the first begining of his reigne he punished such as had béene furtherers of his predecessors mis|gouernement, and afterwards he passed ouer into Sée more of him in Eng|land. the westerne Iles, where he appeased certeine rebels, which went about to disquiet the state of the com|mon-wealth there. From thence he sailed vnto the Gald puni|sheth such as disturbe the quiet state of his subiects. Iles of Lewis and Skie, and put to death certeine offendors that would not be obedient vnto their go|uernors and iudges. After this he returned by Rosse, and set a stay also in that countrie, touching certeine misdemeanors of the people there. To be short, hée purged the whole realme of all such robbers, théeues, and other the like offendors against the quiet peace of his subiects, as were hugelie increased by the li|centious rule of his predecessor Dardan, and here|vnto he was mightilie aided by the Morauians, who The Moraui|ans helpe to apprehend theeues and offendors. pursued such offendors most earnestlie, and brought in vnto him no small number of them, euer as they caught them.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 By this meanes was the state of the common|wealth brought into better quiet, and the yeere next insuing, being the third of Gald his reigne, he cal|led a councell at Dunstafage, wherein he laboured much for the abrogating of the wicked lawes insti|tuted Gald laboreth to abrogate wicked lawes by king Ewin, as before is partlie specified: but he could not obteine more, than that poore men from thencefoorth should haue their wiues frée vnto themselues, without being abused from time to time indifferentlie by their landlords, as heretofore they had bene. Whilest he was thus busied about the esta|blishing of holsome orders & statuts for the welth of his subiects, woord was brought him that Petilius Petilius Ce|realis a Ro|mane capteine sent by Ues|pasian into Britaine. Cerealis a Romane capteine, being sent from Ues|pasian the emperour to haue the gouernement of Britaine, was landed with a puissant armie in the countrie, and minded shortlie to inuade the bor|ders of his realme, as Annandale and Galloway.