Compare 1587 edition: 1 There be that wryte how Penda the father alſo was baptiſed by this Colman: and that the ſame Colman trauayled through the moſt parte of all the Engliſhe prouinces ſetting foorth the worde of life amõgſt the people, purchaſing him greate fame for his woorthie merites. He came to the church of Lyndefern in y^e daies of Maldwyn that ſucceeded the laſt mencioned Ferquharde.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Mald|wyne. [figure appears here on page 149] THis Maldwyne was the ſonne of king Donewalde: and after that Ferquharde was dead and buried in Colmekill,Maldwyne in|ueſted king of Scottes. he was in|ueſted king: which fun|ction he right ſufficiẽt|ly diſcharged, ſtudying to mayntayne peace with his neighbors the P [...]ſts, Saxons, and Brytayns: giuing thereby a good enſample to be followed of his ſubiectes.A louer of peace and iuſtice. Hereto he had a ſpeciall care for the adminiſtra|tion of the lawes in due forme and order cauſing offendors to be puniſhed, that other harmeleſſe perſons mighte liue in quiet, ſo that by this meanes all things in the beginning of his reigne had proſperous ſucceſſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Lennox and Argyle are at variaunce.Afterwardes there fell no ſmall diſcorde be|twixt them of Lennox & Argile: for firſt through brau [...]ng amongſt the heardes men, theyr ma|ſters made a fray, whereof roſe ſuche deadly e|nimitie betwixt the parties, by reaſon that the inhabitantes of the Weſterne Iſles ayded them of Argyle,The weſterne Iſles take parte with Argyle. Galoway with Lennox. and the people of Galoway the other of Lennox: that if the king had not come into thoſe parties to apeaſe the buſineſſe, and to haue puniſhed the offendors, there had enſued muche manſlaughter, to the greate daunger of the vt|ter ruyne of thoſe countreys.