Compare 1587 edition: 1 Certaine Witches and Southſayers decla|ring that theſe things betokened the deſtruction of the Scottiſhe kingdome, were commaunded by the Prieſtes to holde their peace on payne of death, as they that tolde nothing but lyes and fables, though afterwardes their tales proued moſt true.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But to returne to our hiſtorie. Ethodius the brother of Eugenius being cured, as is ſayde by EEBO page image 92 commaundement of Maximus,Ethodius con|fined into Denmarke. was yet bani|ſhed amongſt the reſidue, and conſtrained to take an othe, that he ſhoulde immediately repayre in|to Denmarke, and hereafter not to approch nea|rer vnto the coaſtes of Albion, for doubt of ſome newe attempt that might be made by the Scots through his meanes, thereby to returne into that Countrey agayne, and to recouer theyr former eſtate.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But this ſtayed not them of the weſterne Iles,Gillo choſen captaine of the baniſhed Scots in the weſtern Iles comming into Argile, is vanquiſhed by the Pictes. but that aſſembling themſelues togyther, and choſing one Gillo to their capitain they paſ|ſed ouer into Argyle, where in the ende they were encountered by ſuch Pictes as were ſet there to defende that Countrey, and ſlaine eche mo|thers ſonne. Their veſſelles were alſo taken and brought into ſundrie Hauens of the Coun|trey to ſerue for defence of the coaſtes vppon any newe enterpriſe which the Scottes ſhoulde chaunce to make:The Scottes repayre into Irelande. but the other Scottes percey|uing they were not able to furniſhe forth a newe armie in the Iles by any ayde they might pur|chaſe there, ſayled ouer into Irelande, where pre|ſenting themſelues vnto the King of that Regi|on, they declared vnto him from poynt to poynt all their infortunate chaunces, and lamentable calamities which were happened vnto them of late through the tyrannicall puiſſance of the Ro|maines, and malicious enuie of the Pictes, in ſuche ſort as nothing coulde be more miſerable than their preſent eſtate, conſidering the ruine of ſo mightie a kingdome, and the final baniſhment of the inhabitants from their houſes and lands, which had beene in poſſeſſion of them and theyr elders, by the ſpace almoſte of ſeuen hundred yeares.