Compare 1587 edition: 1 When Saint Colme had made an ende of theſe or the like his wholeſome aduertiſements,The promiſe of the people. all the people reioyſing thereat, promiſed with one voyce, and therewith vowed to followe the ſame, and to be euer ready to obey the cõmaun|dement of theyr prince, and the holy inſtructions of theyr biſhops & other the Eccleſiaſtical mini|ſters. The aſſemble being once diſſolued,The kings iourney into Galloway. the king departed into Galloway, and there deliuered the countrey of certaine Brittiſhe robbers, that had inuaded it.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this, ſtudying to maintaine good orders and quiet rule through his dominions,Aydan appoin|teth ſeſsions to be kepte yerely in three partes of his realme. he ap|pointed an aſſemble of the chiefeſt peares of his realme to be holden yearely in three ſeuerall par|ties therof, as in Galloway, Louchquhaber, and Cathneſſe, there to [...]eare & determine all ſuytes & quarels of his ſubiects, & to giue order for the ad|miniſtratiõ of the lawes & al publike affayres, as they ſhould ſee cauſe, & occaſion. He required alſo S. Colme to be preſent euer with thẽ, y^e maters EEBO page image 139 touching religion might be the better prouided for, and that the people might take all things done in thoſe publike ſeſſions in right good parte, bycauſe ſuch an holy and v [...]rtuous father of the Churche was amongſt them,Saint Colme preſent at af| [...] and Seſ| [...]ions. and hauing the chiefeſt authoritie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus continued the realme in quiet ſtate for certaine yeares togither, till it chaunced that di|uers of the nobles being togither on hunting, fell at variance,A fray amõgſt the nobles be|ing a hunting. and therevpon making a fray, ſun|dry of them were ſlayne. The beginners & ſuche as were moſte culpable were [...]ought for, by the kings officers, to haue bene had towarde, but they in diſobeying the arreſt, ſtroke and beate the officers very ſore, and immediatly therewith fled vnto Brudeus king of the Pictes, ſo by wilfull exile to ſafegard theyr liues.