Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 THis Maldwin was the sonne of king Done|wald: Maldwin and after that Ferquhard was dead and buried in Colmekill, he was inuested king: which Maldwin in|uested king of Scots. function he right sufficientlie discharged, studieng to mainteine peace with his neighbors the Picts, Sax|ons and Britains: giuing thereby a good example to A louer of peace & iustice be followed of his subiects. Hereto he had a speciall care for the administration of the lawes in due forme and order, causing offendors to be punished, that o|ther harmelesse persons might liue in quiet, so that by this meanes all things in the beginning of his reigne had prosperous successe. Afterwards there Lennox and Argile are at variance. fell no small discord betwixt them of Lennox and Argile: for first through bralling among the heard|men, their maisters made a fraie, whereof rose such EEBO page image 115 deadlie enimitie betwixt the parties, by reason that the inhabitants of the westerne Iles aided them of The westerne Iles take part with Ar|gile, Galoway with Lennox. Argile, and the people of Galloway the other of Len|nox: that if the king had not come into those parties to appease the businesse, and to haue punished the of|fendors, there had insuer much manslaughter, vnto the great danger of the vtter ruine of those coun|tries.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king at his arriuall amongst them minded not to pursue the people that followed their cap|teins, Maldw [...] went about for to punish the author of this commo|non. The capteins becam friends togither, and fled into the Iles. The Iland|men appre|hend the cap| [...]ns of the re|bels. but rather the capteins and authors of this tu|mult themselues. Whereof they hauing knowledge, made an attonement togither, being inforced there|to of necessitie, so to auoid the prepared punishment deuised by the king against them. And foorthwith they fled ouer into the Iles, but the inhabitants doubting the kings displeasure, would not consent to succour them, but contrariwise tooke them and de|liuered them to the kings officers, wherevpon they were safelie conueied to the places where they were borne, and there suffered their deserued execution. Thus that commotion vnaduisedlie begun, was spéedilie appeased, and the name of Maldwin by rea|son héereof so feared amongst his subiects, that du|ring his reigne no such trouble chanced in anie part of all his dominions.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this he went ouer into Iona or Colmekill, He buildeth the church of the abbeie of Colmekill. where perceiuing the abbeie church, wherein his an|cestors had their sepultures, to be in decaie, he caused it to be pulled quite downe, and woorkemen foorth|with set in hand to build it vp againe, at his owne proper costes and charges. Such spéed also was vsed about this woorke, that before he departed out of this life, the same was finished, and dedicated vnto our Sauior Christ, and saint Colme. About the same time there reigned throughout the most part of the world A great pesti|lence & death vpon earth. a sore and gréenous pestilence, consuming a greater number of men (before it ceassed) than there were left aliue: for it continued the whole space of thrée yeeres togither. At length, through common praier, fastings, giuing of almes, & other vertuous woorks, the wrath of almightie God was pacified, so that such great mortalitie by his mercifull appointment did staie and giue ouer.