Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The one nation séeking thus to be reuenged of the other, there insued open war betwixt them: whervp|on the Scotishmen, to the end they might be the bet|ter Scots send for aid into Ireland. able to [...]ainteine their quarell, sent ouer their ambassadors vnto their kinsmen in Ireland, requi|ring them of aid in that present danger, as hauing now not onelie warres with the Picts, but also with the Britains, who minded nothing but the vtter They require a gouernor. destruction of them and their linage, except speedie remedie were found. And for that they saw it néed|full to haue one onelie head and gouernor, they made sute also to haue some capteine of honor with them into Albion, vnto whom as to their king they would submit themselues. In that season amongst the I|rish Ferg [...]hardus king in Ire|land. Scotishmen, there reigned a king named Fer|guhardus, who inclining to the petition of the Bri|tish Scots, caused an huge armie forthwith to be le|uied, and thereto he appointed [...] owne sonne Fer|gustus to be generall of the same, a worthie yoong Fergusins sent into Scotland. The marble stone. gentleman, and an expert warrior: whome hee sent ouer with his puissant companie, in such speed as was possible. He had also with him the marble stone, that he might conceiue the better hope to reigne there as a king, bicause he went foorth vnto such a dangerous warre.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Such also as went with him in this iournie, had Fergusius landed in Albion. A parlement. their wiues, their children, and all their substance with them, as the maner of the nation then was, when they went forth into any forren countrie. Now it came to passe that this Fergusius was no sooner come into Albion among the Scotishmen there, but that in a parlement called and assembled in Argile for the purpose, they first consulted after what sort they might mainteine themselues against their eni|mies, and what order for gouernment should be ob|serued amongst them. Where finallie for auoiding of such inconuentences, as might rise through manie A king is [...] to be obeied. gouernors, they decréed to choose onlie one, whome in all things, as their king & head, they would from thencefoorth follow and obeie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 BUt bicause there was none thought so méet to Fergusius. beare that office, as Fergusius, and that the EEBO page image 33 chaire of hope was also brought with him: they con|cluded by whole consent to commit that charge vnto him, and so to the great reioising of the people, he was placed vpon his marble stone, and crowned king, being the first of the Scotish nation that euer ruled in Albion as absolute gouernor, who began his reigne in the yeare after the creation of the world 3640, which is (as Harison saith in his chronologie) before the incarnation of our sauiour 327, after the building of Rome 420, and after the entring of Brutus into Britaine 790.