Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Plinie, Cornelius Tacitus, Strabo, and Iulius Cae|sar, with diuers other approued authors, make men|tion of these Druides, signifieng how the first begin|ning of their religion was in Britaine (which some comprehend all wholie vnder the name of Albion) and from thence was the same religion brought ouer into France, Finnanus was not onelie praised for his setting foorth of that heathen religion, but al|so for his politike gouernement of the estate in ioi|full rest and quietnesse. Neither was his same a lit|tle aduanced for the mariage concluded and made betwixt his sonne Durstus and Agasia daughter to the king of Britains, for by that aliance be wan diuers of the British nation vnto his friendship. Fi|nallie, this Finnanus died at Camelon, being come thither to visit the king of Picts as then sore disea|sed, after he had reigned about the space of thirtie yeares. His bodie was conueied vnto Beregonium, and there buried amongest his predecessors.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 AFter him succéeded his sonne the forenamed Durstus. Durstus, farre differing from his noble father in all vertuous demeanour, as he that was altogi|ther giuen to banketting and excessiue drunken|nesse. Such of the nobles as his father had in high reuerence he made light account of; accepting onelie those that of their wicked deuises could find out new kinds of voluntuous pleasures, through whose persuasions some of his peeres he confined, Wicked coun|cellors. some he spoiled of all their substance & inheritance, other he put to death without iust cause or anie kind of lawfull means. Furthermore he forsooke the com|panie of his lawfull wife Agasia, causing [...]ix to be forced and abused by diuers vile persons in most villanous maner.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 With these and the semblable inordinat practises [...] conspira [...]. he procured the indignation of his people so far forth against him, that those of the westerne Iles with them of Cantire, Lorne, Argile, and Rosse, conspi|red togither in the reformation of such disorders as were dailie vsed in the administration of iustice, by the wicked suggestion of euill disposed councel|lors, against whome they pretended to make their A craftie and cloked disti|mulation. war, and not against their king. There were also so manie that fauoured them in this quarell, and so few that leaned to the king to aid him against them, that he was constreined to dissemble with them for a time, in promising not onelie to remoue from him such as they would appoint, but also to be ordered in all things according as they should thinke good. And to put them in beléefe that he ment as he spake, be committed some such councellors as he had about him vnto ward, and other some (of whome he little passed) he sent vnto them as prisoners, to receiue such punishment by death or otherwise, as they should thinke conuenient.