Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In which meane time two thousand Irishmen The Irish men land in Argile. were landed in that countrie, in hope of spoile, and hearing that Argadus was comming that waies forth to fight with his enimies, they laid themselues secretlie in ambush by the waie where hée should The Irish men lay an ambush to in|trap Argadus passe, and when he was passed by them, they brake foorth vpon his rereward suddenlie, putting his peo|ple in such disorder by their violent impression at the first brunt, that though he did what in him laie to bring them againe into araie of battell, yet in the Argadus is slaine. end he was there slaine with two thousand of his ar|mie, the residue escaping by flight out of the hands of their wild and cruell enimies. Ethodius hauing knowledge hereof, with an armie of twentie thou|sand men hasted foorth towards Argile, to reuenge EEBO page image 66 the death of his valiant capteine Argadus vpon the rebels. Who hearing of his comming, made to|wards the sea, and would gladlie haue béene gone, but by reason of a contrarie wind they were forced to stay against their wils, so that he finding them still in the countrie, wrought so warilie by closing them vp among the hils and mounteins, that final|lie constreined through famine, they submitted them The Iland|men yéeld themselues. selues vpon these conditions, that their head cap|teine with two hundred others of the chiefest, should yéeld themselues simplie to the kings mercie, and the residue to be licenced to depart againe into their countries.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Those that were appointed to be deliuered to the king with their capteine, suffered death by sentence of the nobles and péeres of the realme. Whereat the Execution. other taking indignation, though they had alreadie yéelded vp their weapons, yet began they to fall vp|on the Scots with hurling of stones, and other such things as came to hand, till finallie they were bea|ten downe by the armed soldiers, and a great num|ber of them slaine: the residue escaping as well as they might, fled into the mounteins. The Iland|men Ethodius vi|siteth his coun tries, to sée iustice main|teined. being thus vanquished, and the Romans at|tempting nothing against the Scotishmen or Picts, Ethodius visited all the parts of his realme, taking order for the due execution of iustice amongest his subiects.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 And for that he would not spend his time in idle|nesse, being now at rest from warres, he began to exercise himselfe in hunting, and for the better nou|rishing of game, he tooke order that all such ordinan|ces He giueth him selfe to hun|ting, & causeth the lawes for the mainte|nance of game to be wel kept & looked vnto, as had béene deuised by his elders, should streict|lie be obserued and kept: as that no man should be so hardie to go about to destroie anie hares with nets, grens or hare-pipes: neither to kill them in their formes by anie meanes: nor after that they had béene once coursed and escaped, to follow the sute, to the intent to start them againe. Also that none should go about to kill anie hart or hind, du|ring all the winter season, at what time they were accustomed for hunger to leaue the mounteins, forrests and woods, and to come downe into the fields and couerts, néere vnto the townes & houses.