Compare 1587 edition: 1 But when the time came that he ſhould haue ſet forward on that iourney, he heard ſuch newes from the parties of beyonde the Seas, into what ruinous decay the Empyre was fallen, without any likelyhoode of recouerie, that chaunging his purpoſe,Maximianus taketh vpon him the abſo|lute gouernãce of Brytayne, with the Em|perial rytle. he determined to vſurpe the crowne of Brytayne as abſolute king thereof himſelfe, and to haue the more fauour of the Brytiſhe Nation without any impeachment in the beginning of his raigne, he took to wife one of the daughters of Dionethus, being the elder of thoſe two, He marieth Othilia, the daughter of Dionethus. which he only had without iſſue male, by the ſiſter of king Ferguſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 She that was thus coupled in mariage with Maximianus hight Othilia, & the other daugh|ter named Vrſula, was profeſſed a Nunne in an houſe of religion, to the intent that y^e whole right which Dionethus pretended to the realme,Dionethus re|puted for ſe|cond perſon of the realme. might remaine to the wife of Maximianus. Then was Dionethus made ſecõd perſon of the realm, aſwel in degree of honor, as in publike gouernment.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 [figure appears here on page 102] ANd why|leſt theſe thinges were thus a doing in Brytayne,Euge|nius. Eugenius created king of Scottes. the Scottiſh lords had created En+genius the ſon of Ferguſe, king of theyr realme, as due to him by rightful ſucceſſion from his father, who had gouerned the ſame by the ſpace of. xvj. yeares ere he was ſlaine (as before is ſpecified) in the laſt mentioned battaile.