Compare 1577 edition: 1 Saint Colme then being throughlie certified of his death, and that the corps was forward on the Saint Colme present at the buriall of king Conuall. way towards Colmekill, there to be buried, hée thought it a péece of his dutie to go thither to be at the funerall, and so dooing, was as one of the chiefest there in executing of the obsequies. Which being en|ded, and hearing that Kinnatill the brother of Con|uall Kinnatil elec|ted king of Scotland. was inthronized king in Argile, by the frée elec|tion of all the estates, he neuerthelesse kept on his former purposed iournie, and came vnto Kinnatill, bringing Aidan with him (appointed by Conuall to haue receiued the gouernement of the kingdome if he had liued) they were both receiued with all bene|uolence of the said Kinnatill cõtrarie to most mens Saint Colme and Aidan re|ceiued by Kinnatill. expectation: insomuch that imbracing Aidan, he had him be of good cheere, for it should shortlie come to passe, that he should atteine to the possession of his grandfathers dominions, and haue issue that should The prophesy of Kinnatill. succeed him, to the great reliefe of the Scotish com|mon-wealth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 By what spirit of prophesie he vttred these words, it is vncerteine, but sure it is that his purpose was to haue giuen ouer the gouernement of the king|dome (as he confessed himselfe lieng vpon his death bed) and to haue restored it vnto Aidan who had a right there vnto. Howbeit being preuented by death, he could not haue time to accomplish his desire, for within twentie daies after his coronation, being surprised with a grieuous disease of a catarrhike rheume, and the squinancie, he was constreined to kéepe his chamber, committing the publike admini|stration of the realme vnto Aidan. Herevpon follo|wed a feuer through increasing of a flegmatike hu|mor The death of Kinnatill. Kinnatill li|eng vpon his death bed, sur|rendereth his kingdome in|to Aidans hands. bred by long rest, that after 14 moneths space vnbodied his ghost, which by instruction of saint Colme, being present with him at the houre of his death, he rendred in most deuout wise into the hands of his redéemer; appointing his kingdome as it were by deliuerie of seisin, euen there vpon his death bed vnto the foresaid Aidan.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 AFter that the bodie of this Kinnatill was in|terred, Aidan. according to the maner, in Colmekill, Aidan receiued the crowne, sitting vpon the marble Aidan recei|ueth his inue|sture of the kingdome at the hands of saint Colme. S. Colmes exhortation to the king and the people. stone, after the custome in those daies vsed, by the hands of that holie father saint Colme. Who willing that silence might be kept, laid his right hand vpon the kings head, and in his left hand holding his crosier staffe, made a briefe exhortation, as well to the king as to his people, admonishing them of their duties each towards other, but especiallie he exhorted them vnto peace and concord, and before all things to remember to walke in the waies of the Lord, for in so dooing they might hope for wealth and prosperitie in the state of their commonwealth, with all other good graces, whereas otherwise, if either the people forgot their duties towards God, or that the king regarded not dulie to execute or fulfill his office, in giuing God thanks for his bountious libe|ralitie and high benefits bestowed vpon him, it should come to passe, that intestine seditions, conspi|racies, and other mischiefes should rise among them, to the irrecouerable losse of the realme, by bringing the same into danger to be ouerrun with some for|rein power, if they did not repent in time, and call to God for his fauour, that it might please him to re|duce them againe into the right path of his lawes & ordinances, whensoeuer they should so fall from the same. When saint Colme had made an end of these or the like his wholsome aduertisements, all the peo|ple The promise of the people. reioising thereat, promised with one voice, and therewith vowed to follow the same, and to be euer readie to obeie the commandement of their prince, and the holie instructions of their bishops and other the ecclesiasticall ministers. The assemble being once The kings iournie into Galloway. dissolued, the king departed into Galloway, and there deliuered the countrie of certeine British rob|bers that had inuaded it. After this, studieng to mainteine good orders and quiet rule through his do|minions, he appointed an assemblie of the chiefest péeres of his realme, to be holden yéerelie in three se|uerall Aidan appoin teth sessions to bée kept yéerlie in thrée parts of his realme. parties thereof, as in Galloway, Louchquha|ber, and Cathnesse, there to heare and determine all sutes and quarels of his subiects, & to giue order for the administration of the lawes and all publike af|faires, as they should sée cause and occasion. He re|quired also S. Colme to be present euer with them, that matters touching religion might be the bet|ter prouided for, and that the people might take all things doone in those publike sessions in right good part, bicause such an holie and vertuous father of the Saint Colme present at as|sises and sessions. church was amongst them, and hauing the chiefest authoritie.