Compare 1577 edition: 1 There were present also at the buriall, two of Durstus his sonnes, whome Ewin in his life time had reuoked home out of Ireland, where they were in exile. Both these, as well the one as the other, bi|cause they were twins, and not knowne whether of them came first into the world, looked to be king af|ter Ewin: their names were Dothan and Dorgall. And such malicious emulation and enuious spite rose betwixt the two brethren, for the atteining of their purpose, that greater could not be deuised; which The craftie working of Gillus. Gillus, like a craftie & subtill fox, by couert means sought still to augment; and in the end causing them to come togither for some conclusion of agréement, at length when he had set them further at ods than they were before, he procured a number of souldiers appointed for the purpose to raise a tumult (as though it had bene in taking of contrarie parts) and there to slea them both.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus Gillus hauing brought to purpose that he came for, shewed in countenance as though he had Durstus two sonnes are slaine. béene much offended therewith, and done what hée EEBO page image 42 could to haue appeased the matter, and herewith he commeth running foorth with a high voice, declaring to his companie, that if he had not made good shift for himselfe, he had beene slaine by the hands of Do|than and Dorgall, who fell into such mischéefe them|selues, as they had prepared for other. Herevpon al|so he required his friends and seruants most earnest|lie to conueie him into some sure place, where he might be out of danger, and in better securitie: in somuch that manie of those that heard him, giuing credit to his words, went with him with all spéed vnto Dunstafage, where being receiued into the ca|stell with diuers of the nobles that followed him, he got him into a gallerie, and there making an inuec|tiue oration against the sonnes of Durstus, and tou|ching by the way what perill might insue to the com|monwealth by ciuill diuision, he persuaded them to commit the rule into his hands, vntill it might be certeinlie knowen, vnto whome the same of right apperteined.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Those that were present, perceiuing to what issue his painted processe tended, and doubting lest if they The nobles through feare consented to create Gillus king. should séeme to stand against him at that instant in this his demand, they might happilie be the first that should repent the bargaine, consented to proclaime him king: wherevpon he required all such as were present, to sweare vnto him fealtie, and to doo him homage according to the custome. And herewith a|gréeablie as he had before promised, and according to his fathers will (as he alledged) he distributed a|mong them all such cattell as belonged to his said father. Whereby he wan the greater fauour of ma|nie, but yet not iudging himselfe altogither in suer|tie, by reason that Dothan had left behind him three sonnes, as then remaining in the Ile of Man, in the bringing vp of the Druides, he purposed therefore to dispatch them also for the better assurance of his estate, and therevpon he made a iournie thither him|selfe, Gillus goeth about to mur|ther Dothans sonnes also. feigning as though he meant nothing but all loue and fréendlie affection towards the children, by which meanes he gat two of them into his hands, the one named Lismorus, being about twelue yeeres of age, and the other Cormacus that was two yéeres yoonger. The yoongest of the thrée named Ederus, be|ing about seuen yéeres old, as his better hap was, chanced to be sicke at that time, by reason whereof he escaped his hands: Gillus feigning as though he wished to haue the other two brought vp like the children of a prince, he led them away with him into Scotland, leauing certeine of his seruants behind him, to rid Ederus the yoongest out of the way at leisure; and as for the other twaine, the night follow|ing after his comming home to Dunstafage, he cau|sed them to be murthered, euen in their tutors ar|mes, A detestable murther. whose aid most pitifullie they besought and re|quired. But the woman that had the kéeping of E|derus now in his sicknesse, prouided more warilie for his safegard, for she smelling out what was the kings purpose, in the dead of the night got hir selfe togither with Ederus into a ship, and passed ouer in|to Ederus escapeth. Argile, where being set on land, she caried him on hir shoulders vp into the mounteins, and there with|in a secret den susteined his languishing life for cer|teine moneths in great care and miserie.