The Holinshed Texts (1577, Volume 2, p. 142)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Valdred other wiſe called Baldred, the doctor of the Pictes.There liued in theſe dayes that holy man Valdred a Scottiſhe man borne, but dwelling amongſt the Pictes, whom he inſtructed in the right faith, and therefore was named the doctor of the Pictes. He departed out of this life within the Iland called the Baſſe, lying about .ij. miles off from the maine land within the ſea where the Forth hath the entry betwixt the ſame Iſle, and an other called the May. There were three pa|riſhes fell at contention for the buriall of his bo|die, as Aldham, Tynningam, & Preſton, ſo farre forth, that they were at point to haue fought a|bout it, but that by councell of ſome diſcrete per|ſons amongſt them, it was ordeyned that they ſhould continue in prayer for that night, & in the next morning ſtande to the order of the Biſhop of the dioceſe, who was come thyther the ſame time to be preſent at the buriall. The next day in the morning there was found .iij. beeres with .iij.A myracle, if it be true. bodies decẽtly couered with clothes, ſo like in all reſemblance that no man might perceyue any difference. Then by cõmaundemẽt of the biſhop and with great ioy of all the people, the ſayde ſe|uerall bodies were caried ſeuerally vnto the ſayd three ſeuerall Churches, and in the ſame buried in moſte ſolemne wiſe, where they remayne vn|to this day, in muche honour with the cõmon people of the countreys neare adioyning.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 AFter that the corps of king Aydan was bu|ried in Colmekill,

Kene|thus Keyr.

Kenethus Keyr crowned king of Scottes.

the nobles of the realme aſſembled togither in Argyle, aboute the election of a newe king. Where by the generall voyces of thẽ al, Kenethus Keyr the ſonne of Conualle (ſometime king of the Scottiſh men as before is mencioned) was nowe proclaymed king and EEBO page image 143 crowned according to the maner: but hee liued not paſſing .iiij. moneths after, but died of a ca|tharrike rewme falling downe into the artery called Trachea, Kenethus Keir dieth of the cough of the lungs. He deli|uered as it were the poſſeſſion of his kingdome, by way of ſurrendring the ſame into the handes of Eugenius ſonne to king Aydan,Eugenius the fourth of that name. by conſent of all the nobles, a litle before he died, for that it was knowen he had a right therevnto after the de|ceaſe of Kenethus.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Euge|nius. [figure appears here on page 143] THis Eugenius was the fourth of that name, whiche had ruled ouer the Scot|tiſh men. As it is ſayde S. Colme prophecied that hee ſhould be king long before his fathers death:S Colmes pro+phecie of Eu|genius the fourth. for when all the ſonnes of king Aydan were brought before him, and that Aydan demaunded of him whiche of them ſhoulde reygne after him, hee ouerpaſ|ſing the reſidue (whiche he vnderſtoode by ſecrete knowledge ſhould die in the warres) appoynted foorth this Eugenius, called by ſome alſo Bru|dus, declaring that it ſhould be onely he.