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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Certeine witches and soothsaiers, declaring that these things betokened the destruction of the Sco|tish kingdome, were commanded by the préests to hold their peace on paine of death, as they that told nothing but lies & fables, though afterwards their tales prooued most true. But to returne to our hi|storie, Ethodius the brother of Eugenius being cu|red Ethodius con fined into Denmarke. (as is said) by commandement of Maximus, was yet banished amongst the residue, and constrei|ned to take an oth, that he should immediatlie re|paire into Denmarke, and hereafter not to approch neerer vnto the coasts of Albion, for doubt of some new attempt that might be made by the Scots tho|rough his meanes, thereby to returne into their countrie againe, & to recouer their former state. But this staied not them of the westerne Iles, but that Gillo chosen capteine of the banished Scots in the western Iles comming into Argile is ban|quished by the Picts. assembling themselues togither, and choosing one Gillo to their capteine, they passed ouer into Argile, where in the end they were incountred by such Picts as were set there to defend that countrie, and slaine each mothers sonne. Their vessels were also taken and brought into sundrie hauens of the countrie, to serue for defense of the coasts vpon any new enter|prise which the Scots should chance to make: but the other Scots, perceiuing they were not able to fur|nish forth a new armie in the Iles by any aid they might purchase there, sailed ouer into Ireland, where The Scots repaire into Ireland. presenting themselues vnto the king of that region, they declared vnto him from point to point all their infortunate chances and lamentable calamities, which were happened vnto then [...] of late through the tyrannicall puissance of the Romans, and malicious enuie of the Picts, in such sort as nothing could be more miserable than their present estate, considering the ruine of so mightie a kingdome, and the finall banishment of the inhabitants from their houses and lands, which had béene in possession of them and their elders, by the space almost of seuen hundred y [...]res.