Compare 1587 edition: 1 A peaceable prince.The league which his predeceſſours Euge|nius and Mordacke had kept with theyr neigh|bours the Brytaynes, Engliſhmen and Pictes, he duely lykewiſe obſerued.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 His chiefe ſtudie was to purge his realme of all ſuch as were knowne to be open baret [...]ers and offenders in any wiſe, agaynſt the peace and cõ|mon quiet of his ſubiects: ſo that cauſing ſun|drie notable enſamples of iuſtice to bee executed vpon ſuch euill doers, he was had in ſuch reue|rende dread [...] amongſt his ſubiects, that none of them durſt once whiſper any euill of him. Ney|ther had they verily any cauſe ſo to doe, whileſt he looked to the adminiſtration himſelfe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Foure gouer|nors vnder the king.But after he was once fallen into age, he ap|poynted foure Peeres of his realme to haue the chiefe gouernaunce vnder him: as Dowalde the Treaſurer of Argyle, Collane of Athole, & Mor|dacke of Galloway his Lieutenants, and Con|rath the Thane of Murrey lande. Theſe hauing the procuration of all things touching the go|uernment of the Realme,Vniuſt go|uernment. vſed not themſelues ſo vprightly in many poynts as they ought to haue done: but winked nowe and then at faultes and treſpaſſes committed by their kinſfolkes and a|lyes, permitting the nobilitie to liue according to theyr olde accuſtomed maner of licencious liber|tie, to the ſmall eaſe or commoditie of the other inferiour eſtates.