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Compare 1587 edition: 1 At their first comming bycause they perceyued they coulde not liue without lawes and ciuil gouernement they seuered themselues into tribes, or as it were into hundreds, or weapentakes, euery of the same hauing a speciall gouernour to see their lawes ministred, Gouernours had in reue|rence. and iustice mainteyned: whiche gouernours were had in suche reuerence, that they were as much afrayde to sweare by the name of any one of them, as they were by the Goddes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In this ſtate they continued many [...],They liue in peace. encreaſing in pubc [...] of [...] mightie mo|tion, and liued in good [...] ou [...] trouble of watres or [...] vpon [...] any [...]|raine [...]

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In this meane time alſo,The Pictes came into Scotland, one of Germanie. the Pictes whiche were [...] people of Germanie, as moſt wri|ters do agree, came [...] alſo in [...] EEBO page image 6 part of Brytayne, which nowe is comprehended likewiſe within Scotlande.

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