Compare 1587 edition: 1 In his yong yeares,The Gorthes make an expe|dition againſt the Empyre of Rome. hee was appoynted to ſerue vnder Alaryke the Gottiſhe King in that famous voyage which he tooke in hande agaynſt the Romaine Empyre. For ſuche was the hate as then of all the Northerne Regions and Kingdomes towardes the Romaine name, that by generall agreement they conſpyred togy|to the vtter ruyne and finall deſtruction there|of. And ſo eche of them ſente forth a power in ayde of the ſayde Alaryke choſen by com|mon conſent as Generall of the whole enter|pryſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ferguſe being ſet forth by the King of Den|marke with a power of Danes,Ferguſe was ſent to ayde the Gothes. and with a cho|ſen number of ſuche Scottiſh men as were with|drawne into thoſe parties went with the better will, for that beſyde the common quarell, he bare a priuate grudge towardes the Romanes for the vſing of his auncetters ſo cruelly in expulſing them oute of theyr owne homes and natiue Countrey.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Ferguſe was preſent with the Gothes at the wynning of Rome,Rome ſacked. in the ſacking where|of, amongeſt other ſpoyles, hee gotte (as is re|ported) a certaine Cheſte full of bookes, the whiche ſome holde opinion hee brought after|wardes into the weſterne Iles, and cauſed them to bee kept in Iona, nowe Colmekill, within a librarie there buylded for the ſame intent. Which bookes (as is to bee ſuppoſed) were certaine hy|ſtories or monumentes of olde antiquities. But the ſame were ſo defaced in the dayes of Hector Boetius (who as hee himſelfe wryteth, cauſed them to be brought ouer vnto him to Aberdyne) that it coulde not be vnderſtoode of what matter they intreated.