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You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 1421 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 179)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 So farre foorth was the murder executed on all hands,

All the Pictes natiõ deſtroy|ed.

The citie of Camelon is throwẽ down.

that there was not one left aliue of the Pictiſh nation, neither man, woman nor childe to bewayle that miſerable deſtruction of theyr countrey and kinſfolkes. Then were the walles throwen downe and made euen with the plaine grounde. The houſes and buyldings aſwell pri|uate as publike with the churches & chapels were ſet on fire, and that which might not be cõſume [...] with the rage of fire was ruynate and deſtroyed with hande, ſo that there remayned of all that famous citie, nothing but the aſhes with heapes of the broken and brenned ſtones, and likewiſe of the pauement and fundacion of ſome parte of the walles.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 1422 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 179)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The ſame time the caſtell of Maydens now called commonly Edenburgh caſtell was ſtill kept with a mightie garyſon of Pictes,The caſtell of Maydens is left of the Pictes. but they hearing of the miſerable deſtructiõ of Camelon, and doubting to fall into the like miſchaunce left the caſtel voyde, and fled into Northumberland. Thus ended the kingdome of the Pictes in Al|bion in the yeare after they firſte began to reigne therein .1173.839. 1421. H. B. 6038. H. B. and in the yeare after the byrth of our ſauiour .839. from the firſt cõming of Fer|gus .1166. and after the creation of the worlde .4806. if the Scottiſh chronicles be true.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
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Compare 1587 edition: 1 But where as the truthe concernyng the tyme of the firſte comming into this Iſle, aſwell of the Scottes as Pictes reſteth doubt|full, and that aſwell by authoritie of appro|ued wryters, as by reaſonable coniectures, wee haue in the Hiſtorie of Englande more largely EEBO page image 180 written thereof. Wee referre thoſe that bee deſi|rous to ſee further of that mater, vnto the ſame, following here in this hiſtorie of Scotlande the report moſt an ende, as we finde it in Hector Boetius, and other the Scottiſhe wryters, not taking vpon vs ſo frankely to ſet downe our owne opinion in this Scottiſhe, as in the En|gliſhe hiſtorie through want of ſuche helpes in the one as we haue got in the other.

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