Compare 1587 edition: 1 [figure appears here on page 78] BVt bycauſe hee came to the eſtate thus by bloud,Donald he conti|nued ſtill in doubte and feare of newe conſpira|cies, being giltie in con|ſcience of his wrongful vſurpation.A giltie con|ſcience.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thoſe pryſoners al|ſo whiche he had taken in the battell, he kept in perpetuall captiuitie, menacing them preſent death if any of their friendes and alies attempted any ſturre againſt him.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer hee nouriſhed priuie factions a|mongſt the nobilitie, ſuppoſing therby that their powers would be the more feeble in any publike exployte that was to be moued againſt him: fi|nally if any miſchiefe happened among them, he cauſed the matter throughly to be looked vpon, but with ſuch regarde that he alwayes enriched his owne cofers with the forfaytures and penal|ties which he tooke vp amongſt them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 But because he came to the estate thus by bloud, he continued still in doubt and feare of new conspi|racies, being guiltie in conscience of his wrong|full vsurpation. Those prisoners also, which he had ta|ken Agusitie co [...] science. in the battell, he kept in perpetuall captiuitie, menacing them present death, if anie of their friends and allies attempted anie stirre against him. More|ouer he nourished priuie factions amongest the no|bilitie, supposing thereby that their powers would be the more féeble in anie publike exploit that was to be mooued against him; finallie, if anie mischiefe happened amongest them, he caused the matter thoroughlie to be looked vpon, but with such regard that he alwaies inriched his owne cofers with the forfeitures and penalties which he tooke vp amongst them. He seldome times went abroad, and when he stirred foorth anie whither, he had his gard about him, appointed with weapons in warlike sort for dout of treason. He aduanced diuers of base condition to great wealth and honor, and behaued himselfe so in sundrie sorts with his mi [...]ull crueltie, that manie there were which dread him, and but a few that loued him, so that in the end being in a maner run into the deadlie hatred of all men, he was mur|thered Donald of the Iles is mur|thered. Anno Christi. 273. H. B. one night at Enuerlachthée (whither he was come to haue passed ouer into the Iles) by certeine that had conspired his death in the twelfth yeare of his reigne.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The chiefe of the conspirators was one Crathlint Crathlint chiefe conspi|rator to the murthering of Donald. the sonne of king Findocke, who immediatlie after the déed doone, conueied himselfe secretlie out of the chamber, and repairing vnto certeine nobles and gentlemen inhabiting néere hand in the countrie, he declared vnto them the whole matter, exhorting them to aid him, in reuenging the iniuries doone not onelie to them priuatlie, as he knew verie well; but Crathlint pro cureth the no|bles of the countrie to oppresse the seruants of king Donald. also to the whole state of the Scotish common welth, by the naughtie suggestion of diuerse of the kings complices, who as yet vnderstood nothing of their maisters death, but were all quiet in their beds, as men suspecting nothing lesse than that which was EEBO page image 71 now happened.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The gentlemen hearing the newes, and reioising greatlie thereat, got them to their weapons, and earlie in the verie dawning of the day, comming vpon the kings houshold meanie they slue aboue two hundred of them in the place where they lodged, the residue escaping foorth of the house, and thinking to saue themselues, were beaten downe in the coun|trie as they passed by the people, who bare so deadlie and mortall hatred vnto the late king, that they not onelie reiossed much at his death, but thought them|selues sufficientlie reuenged, when they could kill anie that did belong vnto him.