Compare 1587 edition: 1 Shortly after Ethodius (as the cuſtome of newe kings in thoſe dayes was) went ouer into the weſterne Iles, there to take order for the ad|miniſtration of iuſtice, where immediately vpon his arriual, it was ſhewed him that not paſſing two or three dayes before, there had bene a great cõflict fought betwixt yt nobles or clannes of the countrey,Ciuil diſcorde amongſt the Lordes of the Iles. by reaſon of a ſtrife that was ſtirred a|mongſt their ſeruants, being a cõpany of naugh|tie and vnruly fellowes, to the great diſquiet of the Inhabitants.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Herevpon was Argadus ſent forth inconte|nẽtly with a power to appeaſe that buſineſſe,Argadus is ſent forth to apprehend the rebelles. and to bring in the offenders, that they might receyue rewarde according to their demerites. Argadus forthwith haſted towards the place, where he vn|derſtood the rebelles to be remayning, and appre|hending their whole nũber of thẽ, ſome by force, and ſome vpõ their humble ſubmiſſion, he retur|ned back with them to the king, who cauſing the matter to be throghly heard, ſuch as were ye con|feſt beginners, & moſt in fault,The Iland re|belles are pu|niſhed. were puniſhed by death, and the other fined at the kings pleaſure.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 66The Ilande people beeing thus appeaſed, the king returned into Albion, where as then lying at Enuerlochthee, a towne (as is ſayde) in Louchquhaber,The Romains inuade the Pictiſh & Scot+tiſh borders. worde came vnto him, yt the Ro|maines had broken downe the Wall buylded by the Emperour Adrian, and made a greate rode into the Scottiſhe and Pictiſhe borders, where meeting with the Inhabitantes aſſembled to|gyther in defence of theyr Countrey (after a ſore conflict) the victorie remayned with the Ro|maines: by reaſon wherof they led a great bootie of cattel and other goodes away with them to the places where they ſoiourned.