Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 Amongſt other the violent doings of this Ton|cet, he cauſed diuerſe marchant men of the towne of Fores in Murreyland (as thẽ the chiefeſt town of all that countrey) to be accuſed of treaſon by a light information, and in the end executed with|out any apparant matter, onely vpon a couetous deſire to haue their goods and riches, bycauſe they were men of great wealth and ſubſtance. Diuerſe noble men of the countrey there aboutes, & name|ly of the towne of Fores, being partly of kin vn|to thoſe marchants, were ſore offended with this act, and herevpon they firſt came vnto Toncet, & reuiled him with many high reprochful wordes, & afterwards fell vpõ him in the place of opẽ iudge|ment where he ſat as then in his iudgement ſeat,A preſump|tuous act. and there murthered him, getting them forthwith vp into the moũtains to auoyd the danger, which they knewe vnpoſſible for them to eſcape, if they ſhould happen to be taken whileſt Conran ſhould be liuing. After this, they deuiſed how they might encreaſe their heynous deed and bolde enterpriſe with an other far more horrible & notable,The determi|nation of the murtherers to diſpatch the king alſo. which was to ſlea the king himſelf, as the original cauſe of all ſuch miſchief that then raigned in ye realme through the vnworthie gouernment of his vniuſt miniſters & couetous magiſtrates, hoping with|all to obtain the fauor of ſome of the noble men, whom they knew to maligne the king & his coũ|ſell moſt extreemly, & thereby in ſhort time to be aſſured of their pardon. Shortly after it chaunced that one Donald alſo gouernor of Athol,Donald go|uernour of A|thol, conſpi|reth with the Outlawes to murther the king. a mã in great fauour and truſt with the king, had vnder|ſtanding what theſe outlawes intended, & there|vpon practiſed with them by priuie meſſengers, that they ſhould come in ſecret maner vnto En|uerlochtee, where the king ſoiourned, promiſing them by moſt aſſured meanes of othes & vowes, that they ſhuld haue al ye furtherance he could de|uiſe towards the atchieuing of their enterpriſe.
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1 Hereupon theſe outlawes
according to their in|ſtructions,The outlawes enter into the
kings bed chamber. came in ſecret wiſe vnto Enuerlochtee and were
cloſely conueyd into Conrans bed chã|ber by Donalds meanes, who as though he
had knowne nothing of the matter, got himſelf quick|ly out of the way when he
ſawe them once entred within the doore of the chamber. Conran the king
perceiuing how he was betrayed, and that his eni|mies were got into his chamber
ready to murther him, ſtept forth of his bed, & falling down vpõ his
knees beſought them to take pitie of his age, & not to defile their
handes in the bloud of their naturall lord and king, conſidering the fault was
not his,
Conran is murthered within his bed chamber by trayterous meanes. 35. H.B.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 [figure appears here on page 131] AFter him ſucceeded his nephewe Euge|nius,Euge|nius. the ſon of his bro|ther Congall, the which Eugenius as aboue is ſayde,Eugenius is inueſted king of Scotland. was with Arthure in the laſte mentioned iourney agaynſte the Saxons.