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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The kingdome of the Scotishmen being thus be|gun in Albion, Ferguse tooke vpon him to rule as king, making prouision on all sides to resist his enimies: who whilest these things were a dooing in Argile, had assembled their powers: vnto whom also The Bri|tains aid against the Scots. the Britains had ioined themselues, and were now entred into the Scotish borders. Ferguse hauing hereof knowledge, spéedilie got togither his people, and came with banners displaied to encounter his enimies. In king Ferguses banner, there was a red lion portraied rampant, with his rarle folden to|wards his backe, as though he did beat the same, which is the maner of them when they be mooued to displeasure. Ferguse was the first that bare this cog|nisance in Albion, which euer since hath béene borne by those kings that haue successiuelie reigned after him there.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Both the armies were now come within sight of other, and readie to haue giuen the onset, when there went a murmuring amongst the Picts, that their companions the Britains were gotten to a hill a little beside them, minding to sée the end of the bat|tell The Bri|tains are a|bout to de|ceiue the Picts. before they did stir, and then if occasion serued (as their hope was it should) they purposed to fall vpon both parties, as well Picts as Scots, and so to destroie them both, the vanquishers togither with the vanquished, as they found them out of araie in following the chase. The like report was brought vn|to Ferguse by one that fled to his side from the eni|mies [...]son [...] vnto [...] campe, touching this treason of the Britains, conspiring the exterminion of both the people.