Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king hearing this tale, started vp, & with a lowd voice began to call them traitors; adding, that if they went about anie hurt to his person, they shuld deerelie abide the bargaine. But notwithstanding Conarus is taken and committed to close kéeping. these words, such as were appointed therto, caught him betwixt them, and had him forth to a place assig|ned, where they laid him vp, maugre all his resi|stance. In like maner, all such as had borne offices vnder him, were attached and had to prison, where Conarus his ministers are punished for their offenses. the most part of them, vpon examination taken of their offenses, suffered death according to their iust demerits.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Then was the rule of the realme committed vn|to Argadus is chosen to go|uerne the realme. one Argadus, a man of noble birth, and ru|ler of Argile, who vnder the name of a gouernour tooke vpon him the publike regiment, vntill other aduise might be taken. This mans studie in the be|ginning was onelie to clense the countrie of all mis|dooers, and to sée the peace kept to the quiet of the people; & finallie in all his dooings shewed himselfe Argadus an vpright iusti|cer. a perfect patterne of an vpright iusticer. But with|in a few yeares after (as it often happeneth) prospe|rous successe changed his former mind to an euill Prosperitie changeth con|ditions. disposition, whereby he ordered things after his owne selfewill more than by reason, without the ad|uise of his péeres. And further, to the manifest ruine of the common-wealth, he nourished ciuill discord and sedition amongest the nobles, supposing it to make for his welfare, so long as they were at ods. He also maried a Pictish ladie, the better to streng|then himselfe by this his forren aliance.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon the péeres of the realme, vnderstan|ding what mischiefe might insue by these manifold and sundrie abuses of the gouernour, caused a par|lement to be called, where, in presence of the whole assemblie, they laid vnto his charge, how that Argadus is rebuked. (through his misgouernement and presumption, not onelie in coupling himselfe in mariage with a wife of a strange nation, but also for attempting manie other things preiudiciall to the estate of the realme, without consent of the nobles or commons of the same) he had deserued grieuous punishment; his trespasse being so much the greater, in that conside|ring the meane how he came to that dignitie, he answered not their expectation, nor performed the Argadus con|fesieth his fault. trust and credit which was generallie committed vnto him.