Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 Thus comming into Murrey land, he pitched downe his tents, purposing there to abide the com|ming of the residue of his armie. But Donald of the Iles vnderstanding all his demeanour and whole intention, thought it best to assaile him within his campe, before all his power should come vnto him, Donald of the Iles sudenlie setteth vpon the en [...]es. and being thus resolued, he set forward in the night time, and was vpon his enimies, before that his comming towards them was once signified in their campe. The king then vnderstanding his aduersa|ries to be at hand, bringeth foorth his men, setteth them in arraie, and exhorteth them with many pithie words to receiue their enimies with manlie sto|machs. But the Iland-men incouraged also by their capteine, gaue the onset so roundlie, that the Sco|tishmen had not leasure to occupie their shot, but were inforced euen at the first to ioine at hand|blowes, which were bestowed in such furious sort, that in the end the Scots being oppressed with mul|titude, were constreined to giue backe, some sauing themselues by flight, and some standing at defense The Scots ouerthrowen. till they were beaten downe and killed in the place. There were slaine on the kings part thrée thousand men, and two thousand taken prisoners; amongest whome were thirtie personages of honorable estate, togither with the king himselfe being wounded so sore, that he died within thrée daies after the battell, Donald dpar|teth this world. rather through anguish of mind than of his hurts (as some haue written) in the same yeare that he began his reigne. Donald of the Iles hauing thus got the Donald of the Iles taketh vpon him as king. Donald. victorie, tooke vpon him as king, accordinglie as he had caused himselfe at the first to be proclamed.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 But because he came to the estate thus by bloud, he continued still in doubt and feare of new conspi|racies, being guiltie in conscience of his wrong|full vsurpation. Those prisoners also, which he had ta|ken Agusitie co [...] science. in the battell, he kept in perpetuall captiuitie, menacing them present death, if anie of their friends and allies attempted anie stirre against him. More|ouer he nourished priuie factions amongest the no|bilitie, supposing thereby that their powers would be the more féeble in anie publike exploit that was to be mooued against him; finallie, if anie mischiefe happened amongest them, he caused the matter thoroughlie to be looked vpon, but with such regard that he alwaies inriched his owne cofers with the forfeitures and penalties which he tooke vp amongst them. He seldome times went abroad, and when he stirred foorth anie whither, he had his gard about him, appointed with weapons in warlike sort for dout of treason. He aduanced diuers of base condition to great wealth and honor, and behaued himselfe so in sundrie sorts with his mi [...]ull crueltie, that manie there were which dread him, and but a few that loued him, so that in the end being in a maner run into the deadlie hatred of all men, he was mur|thered Donald of the Iles is mur|thered. Anno Christi. 273. H. B. one night at Enuerlachthée (whither he was come to haue passed ouer into the Iles) by certeine that had conspired his death in the twelfth yeare of his reigne.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The chiefe of the conspirators was one Crathlint Crathlint chiefe conspi|rator to the murthering of Donald. the sonne of king Findocke, who immediatlie after the déed doone, conueied himselfe secretlie out of the chamber, and repairing vnto certeine nobles and gentlemen inhabiting néere hand in the countrie, he declared vnto them the whole matter, exhorting them to aid him, in reuenging the iniuries doone not onelie to them priuatlie, as he knew verie well; but Crathlint pro cureth the no|bles of the countrie to oppresse the seruants of king Donald. also to the whole state of the Scotish common welth, by the naughtie suggestion of diuerse of the kings complices, who as yet vnderstood nothing of their maisters death, but were all quiet in their beds, as men suspecting nothing lesse than that which was EEBO page image 71 now happened.