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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Thus continued the realme in quiet state for cer|teine yeeres togither, till it chanced that diuers of the nobles being togither on hunting, fell at vari|ance, A [...]ray among the nobles be|ing a hunting. and therevpon making a fraie, sundrie of them were slaine. The beginners and such as were most culpable were sought for by the kings officers, to haue béene had to ward, but they in disobeieng the arrest, stroke and beat the officers verie sore, and im|mediatlie therewith fled vnso Brudeus king of the King Aidan requireth to haue certeine Scotish out|lawes deliue|red at the hands of Bru deus king of Picts. Brudeus by denieng to de|liuer the Sco|tish outlawes, procureth warres to him selfe and his countrie. Picts, so by wilfull exile to safe gard their liues. King Aidan according to the maner in such cases accusto|med, required to haue those outlawes deliuered vnto him, that he might doo iustice vpon them according|lie as they had deserued. Brudeus taking pitie of the yoong gentlemen, alledged manie things in their excuse, still deferring to deliuer them, till at length hee procured warre to himselfe and his countrie, For Aidan the Scotish king, offended in that hée might not haue those rebels and publike offendors restored vnto him, caused a number of his people, first to fetch a great bootie of cattell and prisoners EEBO page image 109 out of Angus.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Wherewith the Picts being kindled, made a like The breach of peace betwixt the Scots and Picts. I field fought betwixt Scots and Picts. rode into Galloway. Finallie the matter grew vn|to a field, which was foughten in Mentieth, not farre from Calidon castell otherwise called Dounkeld, with great slaughter on both sides, though in the end the victorie yet remained with the Scots; but losing Arthurnus the sonne of Aidan their king, they reioi|sed not greatlie at the gaine. That holie man saint Colme troubled with such newes, came vnto Aidan, Saint Colme reproueth [...]. [...]dan. and declaring vnto him how grieuouslie he had of|fended almightie God, in procuring such mischiefe as had insued of this warre, and reciting in particu|lar the branches thereof, he mooued the king vnto such repentance for his trespasse, that he wholie sub|mitted himselfe vnto saint Colmes chastisement, who being about to depart in semblance sore offen|ded, The repen|tance of king Aidan. the king got him by the sleeue, and would in no wise suffer him to go from him, till he had declared vnto him some comfortable meanes how to redresse the matter, for the quieting of his conscience. At length saint Colme lamenting the kings case, suffe|red Saint Colme goeth vnto the king of the Picts. himselfe to be intreated, and therevpon repaired vnto Brudeus the Pictish king, mouing him by way of diuerse godlie aduertisements to incline his af|fection vnto peace. At length he did so much by tra|uelling An agréement betwixt the Scotish and Pictish kings by the sute of saint Colme. sundrie times to and fro betwixt the two kings, that he brought them vnto agréement, for all matters depending in controursie betwixt them and their subiects.