Compare 1587 edition: 1 But now to returne to the Pictes.The doubt of the tyme of the cõming of Picts & Scots into Britayne. It may be that they came at ſeuerall tymes in like manner as the Scottes didde out of Irelande, of whome the fyrſte is remembred to be Ferguſe, the ſonne EEBO page image 8 of Ferquhard,Ferguſe kyng of Scots. a man right ſkilful in blaſon of armorie, hee himſelfe bare a Lion gules in a field of gold.The marble ſtone. The marble ſtone wherof in the Scottiſhe hiſtorie is mencioned, brought into Ireland by Symon Brechus, and kepte tyll thoſe dayes as a precious iewell, this Ferguſe obteyned towardes the proſpering of his iour|ney, for that it was thoughte, who ſo had the ſame in poſſeſſion, coulde not but obteyne ſo|uerayntie and rule ouer others as a king, na|mely thoſe of the Scottiſhe nation.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This ſtone Ferguſe brynging into Scot|land left it there. But although that Ferguſe be put in ranke among thoſe Scottiſhe kings that ſhuld reigne in Britayn, yet he bare ſmal rule there, and was diuers tymes beaten back into Irelande, where finally he was drowned by myſfortune within the creeke of Knock|fergus.Knockfergus.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 That hee encountred with Coilus king of Britons (as the Scots write) is not poſſible, as oure author hathe verie well noted, excepte they myſtake the name of Coilus for Cailus, with whome the age of Ferguſe mighte well meete: the rather for that in the firſte yeare of Cailus reigne the Pictes entred, Ferguſe im|mediately after them .330. yeeres ere Chriſte was borne, where Coilus reigned in the yeare after the incarnation .124.124. about whiche tyme befell the ſecond arriuall of the Pictes in Bri|tayne.