Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Picts, perceiuing themselues not to be strong [...]nough to match with their enimies in plaine field at hand-strokes, determined yet with skirmishes and light incounterings (if it were possible) to kéepe them off from the winning of anie of their fensed townes, castels or strong holds. And to be the more able to mainteine themselues in this their purposed EEBO page image 76 intention, they did choose on Heirgust to their king, a Heirgust is chosen king of the Picts. man of subtill nature and craffie imagination. This Heirgust deuising how to deliuer his countrie of such an intollerable enimie as Fethelmacus was, procured two slie fellowes Picts by nation, to coun|terfeit themselues for Scots, and for that they were cunning throwers of the dart, in which kind of ex|ercise A pretended, treason. the same Fethelmacus tooke great pleasure, they were appointed to make sute to be in seruice with him, to the intent that when they might espie their time, they should slea him, by one kind of meane or other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 They (according as they were instructed, comming into Scotland) found meanes not onelie to haue place in the kings house, but also to corrupt one of his musicians an harper, and to bring him to be of counsell with them in this their wicked purpose. By reason whereof, in one night as he laie at Carrike, where he was busie to make his prouision there for the warres against the Picts, the same musician (hauing plaid in the kings bed-chamber till he had brought him asléepe) did let in those two Pictish traitors, who foorthwith slue him euen as he laie so Fethelmacus is murthered in his hed. sléeping: but the king groning gréeuouslie at the deadlie stroke, some of them that watched before the chamber doore perceiuing what was happened, fol|lowed after the murtherers, who fled with all speed vnto the next mounteins, where they sought to de|fend themselues with hurling downe stones, vpon them that came vp towards them: but in the end, being taken, and confessing the déed, with the whole maner of the same, they were drawen in péeces with wild horsses: the musician also being apprehended and conuict of the treason, suffered semblablie the like kind of death. Fethelmacus came to his end in the third yeare of his reigne, being the second In the fift yeare of the emperour Constantius. yeare after the death of the emperour Ualentinian.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this season (as in times past hath béene belée|ued) certeine bones of the apostle saint Andrew were brought foorth of Achaia, a prouince in Gre|cia, 369. H. B. into Scotland by a Gréekish moonke named Re|gulus Albatus, commonlie called S. Reule, a man Saint Reule commeth into Fife, then a part of Pict|land, and now of Scotland. in those daies highlie estéemed, for the opinion which the world had conceiued of him for his holie and ver|tuous life, to whome king Heirgust gaue his palace that stood in that part of Fife, where the same Regu|lus first landed; at whose contemplation also, he e|rected a church in old time called Kirkruill, that is, the church of S. Reule, afterwards named the old church of S. Andrews, standing in the abbie church|yard, where the chanons were woont to be buried. But to leaue this matter to the further report and credit of the Scotish chronicles, we will procéed with our purpose. After the death of Fethelmacus, the nobles and commons of the Scotish nation sent in|to the Ile of Man for Eugenius the sonne of king The Scots send into the Iles of Man, for Finco|marke his sonnes. Fincomarke, where he with his brother Ethodius had remaned, during the daies of the thrée last re|membred kings, Romacus, Angusianus, and Fe|thelmacus.