Compare 1577 edition: 1 Other hauing a speciall regard to the quiet of their commonwealth, doubted least if they crowned a child to their king, during his minoritie, it could not be but that there should follow strife, enuie, and contention for the gouernance of his person and realme amongst the nobles; and that in such wise, as the people being diuided into sundrie factions, the due administration of iustice should be neglected, the nobles bearing and bolstering vp all kinds of iniuries doone or committed by anie of their par|takers.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 And though it might so happen that they agréed vpon one speciall gouernor, as reason was they should; yet should be séeke to aduance his kinsfolks more than reason happilie required, and peraduen|ture doo things otherwaies much displeasant to no small number of them by that his priuate authori|tie. And againe, the king should no sooner come to yéeres of anie discretion, but one or other would put him in mind to take vpon him to rule the whole him selfe, before he vnderstood what charge he had in hand: and by reason of his fraile youth he lightlie would not follow the counsell of anie, but such as consented vnto him in his sensuall lusts and inordi|nate fansies, which commonlie reigne in such princes as take vpon them gouernance of realmes, before they know (through want of sufficient yéeres) how to gouerne themselues.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 For these and the like considerations, alledged by some of no small authoritie amongst them, it was Feritharis chosen king. agréed in the end, that one Feritharis the brother of the late deceassed Ferguse should be crowned king, and haue the gouernance of the realme during his life: and herewith in the meane time to see his ne|phues king Ferguse his sons brought vp in prince|lie nurture and discipline, as apperteined to the sons of a king: that after his deceasse, if he liued till anie of them were come to ripe yéeres, they might succéed him in the estate and kingdome.