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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 Donalde of the Weſterne Iles, a man of goodly perſonage, but of diſpoſition inclyned to all naughtineſſe,Donalde of the Iles main|teyneth rob|bers. mainteyned a great number of Robbers and ſpoylers of the countrey, liuing on|ly vpon [...]a [...]ine. Fo [...] look what they wanted, they woulde not fayle to catche it, if it were in anye place abrode where they might lay handes on it: ſo that al the huſbandmen and commons of Gal|loway,The oppreſ|ſion of the commons of Galloway. in which Countrey they moſt haunted, were brought into wonderfull thraldome and miſerie. Neyther did Mordacke the kings Lieu|tenant there,Mordacke the kings Lieute|nant beareth with offen|ders. goe about to chaſtice ſuch inſolent miſdemeaners, eyther for that hee was of Do|naldes alyance, eyther elſe priuie to his doings, and partaker of the ſpoyle. The people hereby vexed with continuall iniuries, brought manye pitifull complayntes afore Mordacke, who no|thing regarded their lamentable ſuites and ſup|plications, but the more they complayned, the worſe were they handled. Neyther was there a|ny hope of redreſſe of amendment, till Eugenius the .viij. was admitted to the kingly adminiſtra|tion after the death of king Ethfine, who in the latter ende of his dayes continually beeing ſicke and diſeaſed, could not attende to take order for the publike gouernment,The deceaſe of Ethfine. by reaſon whereof ſuch wilfull miſorders enſued. Hee dyed in the yeare of our Lorde .764.762. H. B. after he had continued his raigne ouer the Scottiſhmen the ſpace of .xxx yeares, his bodie being buried in Colmekill with all funerall obſequies.