Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 EEBO page image 79 But the Picts being offended herewith, and spe|ciallie The Picts offended with Maximus. for putting to death of their men, sundrie of their nobilitie came vnto Maximus, and began to make a sore complaint in that behalfe, declaring that the deserts of their nation had not beene such to|ward the Romane empire, as to haue their people put to execution for a womans sake, being both an enimie and a prisoner, therefore they required that she might be confined into Britaine, and according to the tenor of the proscription, spoiled of all hir Cartandis lamenteth hir infortunate estate. goods. Here Cartandis being present hir selfe, be|gan to make pitifull lamentation, bewailing hir most vnhappie state, in that contrarie to the order of hir wretched case and present miserable fortune, she should now be forced to turne againe into hir coun|trie: wishing rather than she should be inforced so to doo, that she might offer vp hir life as a sacrifice in the place of hir husbands buriall: and therefore holding vp hir hands vnto Maximus in most pitifull wise, she besought him instantlie, that it might please him, either to suffer hir to passe the residue of hir life after such sort as she thought best agréed with hir widowlike estate, or else to take the same from hir presentlie by some violent meanes of execution.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There was not a man other than the Picts, that saw and heard hir at that instant, but lamented hir wofull distresse, so that in the end the request of the Picts was disallowed, & Cartandis hauing liuing assigned hir for the maintenance of hir degrée, was licenced to depart into what place she thought expe|dient, there to liue as she thought best without let or disturbance. The same time the Scotish bishops and préests, being banished as well as the other sort of the Scotish people, a number of their moonks got The monaste|rie of Iona builded by banished Scotish moonks. them into the Ile of Iona, now called Colmekill, where they erected a monasterie for their owne habi|tation, the worthinesse whereof hath béene right fa|mous, euen vnto these our daies, as that which was afterward indowed with manie faire reuenues by diuers of the Scotish kings, who had their burials there after the returne of the Scots into Albanie as shall be hereafter expressed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The yéere in the which the Scotishmen were thus vanquished by the Romans and Picts, and finallie The time that the Scots were thus confined. 5547. H. B. 379. H. B. 710. H. B. The second yeare of Iu|lian the Apo|stata. H. B. Strange visions. Swords and weapons séen in the aire. confined out of their seats, was from the creation of the world 4319, after the birth of our sauior 352, from the beginning of the Scotish kingdome 679, and the third yéere of Magnentius. The same yéere before Eugenius gaue battell vnto Maximus, ma|nie strange sights were séene in the furthest part of Albion, striking a woonderfull dread in manie mens harts. In the night season in the aire were séene fierie swords and other weapons moouing in a long ranke, after comming togither on a heape, and be|ing changed into an huge flame as it had béen a fire|brand, it then vanished awaie. The waters of the riuer of Dune ran with blood, the banks of the same riuer flashed oft times as they had béene all on a fire. There were seene also a number of small birds fall out of the aire so thicke, that it séemed it had rained birds, and incontinentlie came a great number of It raineth birds. rauens that deuoured vp the same.