Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Heirgust now perceiuing into what thraldome and miserie his countrie was brought, by meanes of the warres which he had procured against his neigh|bours the Scotishmen, as a man sore repenting his pasted follie, and séeing no readie meane present how to reforme the same, being aged [...]nd sore broken with continuall sicknesse, he got himselfe secretlie into his priuie chamber, where immediatlie he slue him|selfe, Heirgust slai|eth h [...]fe. to be rid of the sight of that present seruile e|state, into the which he saw both him and his whole countrie reduced. Whose death being once knowne, Uictorine commanded that the Picts should not The Picts are forbidden to create a king. choose anie other from thencefoorth to reigne as king ouer them, nor to obeie anie other magistrates but onlie such as should be appointed to haue the gouern|ment of them, by commandement and commission of the Romane emperor. For it was agréed, as he al|ledged, by the tenor of the league, concluded betwixt Heirgust and Maximus, that after the deceasse of the same Heirgust, all his dominions should be go|uerned by Romane officers in forme of a prouince. Howbeit the Picts nothing regarded the woords of Uictorine, but by common agreement did choose one Durstus is chosen king of the Picts. Durstus the second sonne of Heirgust to be their king.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Wherevpon Uictorine being informed of their doo|ings, raised a power, and made such spéed towards them, that he was gotten so neere vnto the citie of Camelon, yer they had anie knowledge of his ap|proch, that Durstus with ether of the nobles, being Durstus is besieged of the Romans. as then within the same, could not haue space to es|cape their waies, but being foorthwith besieged with|in it, at length they were taken by force of assalt, and the citie sacked, to the great inriching of the Romane armie, and vtter vndooing of the poore inhabitants. Durstus with other the chiefest prisoners were first Durstus is brought priso|ner to London had vnto London, & from thence conueied to Rome, there to haue iudgement by decrée of the senat. The residue of the nobles that were taken there, suffered in the market place at Camelon. Thus was that tu|mult The Picts become tribu|taries. appeased, and the Picts commanded to paie yearlie vnto the emperors procurator the fourth part of all their reuenues growing of their corne and cat|tell. Beside this tribute he charged them also with di|uerse They are put to their base seruices. base seruices, as to labor in mettall mines, to dig stones foorth of the quarries, and to make bricke to be sent into Britaine, or into other places whi|ther it pleased him to command it.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The cause why he burdened them in such sort, was (as he said) to teach them to know themselues. For they were become so loftie, since the departure of the Scotishmen out of the Ile, that if they were not re|streined in time by authoritie of the Romane puis|sance, the whole British nation were like to be short|lie disquieted by their wilfull meanes and insolent presumptions. Neither was it thought sufficient vn|to Uictorine, to charge the Picts in maner as is be|fore specified; but to their further gréeuance he deui|sed The Picts are comman|ded to dwell beyond the water of Forth. an other waie, whereby to bring them in the end vnto vtter destruction, which was this: he constrei|ned them togither with their wiues, children, & whole families, to remooue beyond the water of Forth, and to leaue all the countries on this side the same wa|ter, as well those which they ancientlie had inhabited, as the other which of late apperteined to the Scots, and were assigned to them by Maximus to possesse, after that the Scots were expelled.