Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 THis Findocke was in the flower of his age, of Findocke. Findocke his noble quali|ties and ver|tuous disposi|tion. person most beautifull, cleane made, & of a good|lie stature; wherewith were ioined most excellent gifts of the mind, not so much desirous to séeme as to be vertuous in déed. He was courteous, méeke, & full of affabilitie, studieng alwaies to win friend|ship and loue, rather by gentlenesse, than by feare and menacing words. The leagues with the Bri|tains, Findocke ob|serueth the leagues con|firmed of for|mer times with his neighbors. Those of the out Iles in|uade the coun|tries of Rosse and Murrey land. Findocke ma|keth a iournie into the Iles, to subdue the rebels. Picts and Romans he firmelie obserued. But as peace with forraine enimies breedeth oftentimes ciuill discord at home, so came it then to passe with him at this present: for one Donald of the Iles, a noble man borne, came ouer with an armie into Rosse and Murrey land, fetching from thence a great spoile and bootie, not without great slaughter of such as inforced themselues for to resist him. The occasion as he pretended was to reuenge the death of Natholocus. But Findocke vnderstanding his dooings, prepared an armie with ships, and sailed ouer with the same into the Ile of Ila, where in|countring with Donald and other his enimies, he vanquished and chased them egerlie, without retur|ning once backe, till either the sword or the sea had made an end of them all.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Donald himselfe taking a bote, in hope to haue Donald is drowned. escaped, the prease was such at his entring into the same, that before they could get it off from the shore, it sunke by means of the ouerlading, and so he and The Iland|men with aid of the Irish Kerns, make often inuasi|ons into Ar|gile, and other of the Scotish countries. all they that were on boord were drowned there|withall. The king hauing atchiued this victorie, re|turned into Albanie; but the Iland-men not fullie quieted with this slaughter of their fellows, sent o|uer into Ireland, and got from thence certeine Kerns, who vnder the leading of an other Donald, the sonne of the former Donald, made starts now and then into Argile and Cantire, dooing manie shrewd turnes in the same, yer they could be sup|pressed. Findocke go|eth againe to subdue the re|bels of the Iles. But Findocke being soone informed of these tidings, went ouer againe into the Iles, and such of his enimies as he found, he caused to be hanged, to giue other example what to looke for when they should rebell, but Donald escaped, and got ouer in|to Ireland, where he remained, till he heard that the king was returned backe into Albanie, and then he came againe. But perceiuing himselfe not able to Donald offe|reth to yéeld himselfe v|pon certeine conditions, but is not re|ceiued. worke such feats as he hoped to haue doone, he sent a messenger vnto the king, offering to yéeld him|selfe, and to become his true subiect if he might get his pardon, and be at his owne libertie. But being answered that he should not be receiued, vnlesse he would come vnto Dunstafage with other of his chiefest complices, and to stand fullie at the kings mercie; he refused thus to doo, deuising an other EEBO page image 70 meane how to be reuenged.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Therefore to begin withall, he procured two Donald deui|seth how to murther king Findocke by two naughtie persons. naughtie persons to go ouer into Albaine, and to feine themselues to haue fled from him, where also he willed them to offer their seruice vnto the king, and to disclose vnto him certeine light secrets of the said Donalds, thereby to win credit if it might be, and in the end to espie a time to rid him out of the way. These crastie mates working according to Do|nalds wicked instructions, at length with much adoo they got credit, and after credit they got place so néere the king by the furtherance of Carantius the kings brother (whome they made priuie also vnto their intent) that finding all things correspondent vnto their purpose (one day as the king hunted) the one began to féed him with a tale of the hatred which the Ilanders bare towards him, whereto he gaue verie good eare, whilest the other smote him to the heart with a iaueline, & so leauing the iron sticking in his bodie, he fled away in hast with his traitorous companion and fellow. Those that were néere, see|ing Findocke is slaine. what had happened, some of them ran to him, to sée if they might relieue him as then strugling with the pangs of death; others followed the murtherers, and ouertaking them, brought them backe to receiue their meed according to that which they had iustlie de|serued; being also examined, they confessed how they were procured vnto it, not onelie by Donald The murthe|rers confesse by whose pro|curement they did the déed. A pretie in|duction (if not forged) to the historie that afterwards followeth of Carausius or Carantius as the Scots write him. of the Iles, but also by Carantius the kings owne brother, who of set purpose being out of the way at that present, and hauing knowledge that be was ac|cused of the kings death, fled out of the countrie as a banished man, first into Britaine, from whence (after he had remained there for a time) he went vn|to Rome, and seruing in the wars vnder the empe|rours, Aurelius Probus, Carus, and Dioclesianus, he became a right famous and a verie skilfull cap|teine.