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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 He ordeined moreouer therevnto, that no man should presume to kill anie hind-calues, detesting nothing more than to haue such game destroied, as serued for the exercise and solace of him and his no|bles. The other vacant time, whilest he rested from hunting, he spent for the most part in hearing of musike, hauing diuerse cunning plaiers of sundrie kinds of instruments attending in his court. At length setting all his pleasure in hearing of a musi|cian being borne in one of the west Iles, he was murthered by him in the night time within his owne chamber. The murtherer being apprehended, and ex|amined Ethodius murthered by a musician. 194 H. B. vpon what occasion he did that heinous fact, for the which he had deserued the most extreme kind of punishment that might be deuised, he answered: that in reuenge of the death of such his kinsmen and friends as the king had caused to be executed in Ar|gile, he purposed long before to doo that déed, and now that he had accomplished his purpose, he was readie to receiue what kind of death they would ad|iudge him vnto. For sure I am of this, saith he, that how terrible soeuer my execution shall be, yet can it not bée so painfull, but that I shall reioise euen in the verie instant of my death, for that I haue in such notable sort reuenged the deaths of all my kinsmen & friends. Finallie by commandement of the magi|strates he was drawne in peeces with wild horsses in most violent wise.