Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Pictes perceyuing themſelues not to be ſtrong inough to matche with theyr enimies in playne field at hãds ſtrokes, determined yet with ſkirmiſhes and light encountrings if it were poſ|ſible to keepe them off from the winning of any of theyr fenſed townes, caſtels or ſtrong holdes. And to be the more able to mayntaine thẽſelues in this theyr purpoſed intention, they chooſe one Hierguſt to theyr king, a man of ſubtill nature,Hierguſt is choſen king of pictes. and craftie imaginatiõ. This Hierguſt deuiſing how to deliuer his countrey of ſuch an intollera|ble enimie as Fethelmacus was, procured two ſlie fellowes Picts by nation, to coũterfeyte thẽ|ſelues for Scots, & for that they were cunnyng throwers of the darte, in which kinde of exerciſe the ſame Fethelmacus tooke great pleaſure,A pretented treaſon. they were apointed to make ſure to be in ſeruice with him, to the intent that when they might eſpie theyr time, they ſhould ſlea him, by one kind of meane or other.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 EEBO page image 87They (according as they were inſtructed cõ|ming into Scotland) found meanes not only to haue place in the kings houſe, but alſo to corrupt one of his Muſitians an harper, & to bring him to be of counſell with them, in this their wicked purpoſe. By reaſon whereof, in one night as hee lay at Carryk, where he was buſie to make his prouiſion there for the warres againſt the Picts, the ſame Muſitian (hauing playde in the kings bed chamber till he had brought him a ſleepe did let in thoſe .ij.Fethelmacus is murthered in his bedde. Pictiſh traytours, who foorthwith ſlew him euen as he lay ſo ſleeping: but the king groning grieuouſly at the deadly ſtroke, ſome of them that watched before the chamber doore, per|ceyuing what was happened, followed after the murtherers, who fledde with all ſpeede vnto the next mountaines, where they ſought to defende themſelues with hurling downe ſtones vpõ thẽ that came vp towardes them: but in the end, be|ing taken, & confeſſing the deede, with the whole manner of the ſame, they were drawen in peeces with wilde horſes, the Muſitian being alſo ap|prehended & conuict of the treaſon, ſuffered ſem|blably the like kinde of death. Fethelmacus came to his end in the .iij.In the fifthe yeare of the Emperour Conſtantius. yeare of his raigne being the ſecond yeare after the death of the Emperour Valentinian. In this ſeaſon (as in times paſte hath bene beleeued) certaine bones of the Apoſtle S. Andrew,369. H.B. were brought foorth of Achaia, a prouince in Grecia into Scotland, by a Grekiſhe Monke named Regulus Albatus, cõmonly cal|led S.Saint Reule cõmeth into Fife, thẽ a part of Pictland, & now of Scot|land. Reule, a man in thoſe dayes highly eſtee|med, for the opiniõ which the world had cõceiued of him for his holy & vertuous life, to whõ king Hierguſt gaue his palaice that ſtoode in y^e part of Fife, where y^e ſame Regulus firſt lãded: at whoſe contẽplacion alſo, he erected a church in old time called Kirkruil, y^t is, the Church of S. Reule, af|terwards named y^e old church of S. Andrewes, ſtãding in the abbey churchyarde, where y^e Cha|nons were wont to be buried. But to leaue this matter to y^e further report & credite of y^e Scottiſh Chronicles, wee will proceede with our purpoſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scottes ſende into the Iſle of Man, for Fincomarke his ſonnes. After the death of Fethelmacus the nobles & cõmons of the Scottiſh natiõ ſent into the Iſle of Man for Eugenius the ſonne of king Finco|marke, where he w^t his brother Ethodius had re|mained, during the dayes of the .iij. laſt remẽbred kings. Romacus, Anguſianus, & Fethelmacus.