Compare 1587 edition: 1 Whereof Victorine the one of the Romaine Lieutenants hauing knowledge, gaue ſtrayte commaundement vnto Hierguſt the Pictiſhe king, that in no wiſe hee ſhoulde ſuffer the olde lawes and rude ordinaunces of his Countrey, to be vſed any longer amongſt his ſubiects, vppon payne that might enſue for diſobedience ſhewed towards the Maieſtie of the Romaine Empyre.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hierguſt nowe perceyuing into what thral|dome and miſerie his Countrey was brought, by meanes of the warres which he had procured agaynſt his neighbours the Scottiſhe men, as a man ſore repenting his paſſed follie, and ſeeing no readie meane preſente howe to reforme the ſame, being aged and ſore broken with continu|all ſickneſſe, he got himſelfe ſecretly into his pri|uie Chamber,Hierguſt ſlay|eth himſelfe. where immediately hee ſlue hym|ſelfe, to be ridde of the ſight of that preſent ſeruile eſtate, into the whiche he ſawe both him and his whole Countrey reduced.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Whoſe death being once knowne,The Pictes are forbidden to create a king. Victorine commaunded that the Pictes ſhould not chooſe a|ny other from thenceforth, to raigne as King o|uer them, nor to obey any other Magiſtrates, but onely ſuch as ſhoulde bee appoynted to haue the gouernment of them, by commaundement and commiſſion of the Romaine Emperour. For it was agreed, as he alledged, by the tenour of the league, concluded betwixt Hierguſt and Maxi|mus, that after the deceaſſe of the ſame Hierguſt, all his dominions ſhoulde bee gouerned by Ro|maine officers in fourme of a Prouince. How|beeit the Pictes nothing regarded the wordes of Victorine,Durſtus is cho|ſen king of the Pictes. but by common agreement choſe one Durſtus the ſeconde ſonne of Hierguſt to bee their king.