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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The bond of peace begonne betwixt the kings was the more ſtrõgly confyrmed by meanes of aliaunce,The Queene ſlaine in ſtead of hir husbãd. Spontana the daughter of King Gar|nard being coupled in mariage with Eugenius: ſhe in the yeere following being great with child, was murthered one night wythin the kings bed [figure appears here on page 153] chãber in ſteade of the king himſelfe, by two bre|thrẽ of the coũtrey of Athole, who moued to diſ|pleaſure for their fathers death, had conſpired to murther y^e king, & had ſlaine him in deede, had he not through his good hap layne forth of his owne chãber the ſame night. Eugenius being ſuſpected of y^e murther, & euil ſpoken off for y^e ſame amõgſt his ſubiects,The king is ſuſpected of the murther. was at length w^t great daũger of life & honour, enforced to make anſwere by way of arrainmẽt for clearing of himſelf before y^e nobles of his Realme, appoynted as competent Iudges in that cace: So greatly beloued was Spontana amongſt all the degrees of the Scottiſh nation. But in the ende being found giltleſſe of the crime (for at the time that iudgement ſhould haue paſ|ſed, the offenders were apprehended and brought in) he was acquit, to the great reioyſing of all ho|neſt men. Thoſe that had done the deede, were condemned and hanged vp naked on gybbets by the heeles,The murthe|rers are han|ged. togither with certaine cruell maſtiue dogs the whiche might ſo deuour them.

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