The Holinshed Texts (1577, Volume 2, p. 79)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 Whiche done Crathlynt appoynted foorth iudges and other adminiſtratours of iuſtice to ſee the lawes executed,The politike gouernment of Crathlynt. and the countreys gouer|ned in good and quiet order, euery man being aſ|ſigned to his owne proper circuite. Theſe hee chooſe out of the moſt ancient peares and barons of his realme. The yonger ſorte he reſerued to attend vpon his perſon.

Crathlynt go|eth to hunt in the mountains of Granzbene, anciently cal|led Grampeus mons.

An ambaſſade frõ the Pictes.

When he had taken di|rection in this wiſe for the rule of his kingdome, he went vp into the mountains of Granzebene, there to paſſe the time for a whyle in hunting the harte, and other wilde beaſtes, whether came vnto him ambaſſadours from Thelargus king of the Pictes, declaring the ioye whiche theyr maiſter had conceyued for the ſlaughter of Do|nald, and the reſtoring of the right bloud againe vnto the eſtate,The Pictes re|quire the league to be renewed. requiring that the ancient league betwixt the Pictes and Scottiſhmen might be once againe renewed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Crathlynt receiued theſe ambaſſadours moſt ioyfully, giuing them hartie thankes on the be|half of theyr Maſter for this ſignification of his good will ſhewed by theyr comming,Crathlynt pro+miſeth to ob|ſerue the aun|cient amitie betwixt the Scottiſhe men and Pictes. and here|with promiſed, that during his life he woulde gladly obſerue the olde auncient amitie eſtabli|ſhed betwixt the twoo nations: according to the tenure of the old league.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer when the ſayde Ambaſſadours ſhould departe,The preſent ſent by Crath|lynt vnto the king of the Pictes. he tooke vnto them to deliuer frõ him as a preſent vnto theyr Maiſter certayne horſes, with Houndes and Greyhoundes, ſuche as he thought that kyng Thelargus wanted.