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Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 186Here as the Scottes wryters haue, he ordey|ned his mynt, and his coyners of money to inha|bite, wherevpon came vp the name of Sterling money: but therein they are deceyued, for as in the hyſtorie of England ſhall appeare, that name came not in vſe till many yeares after.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 A bridge of ſtone made at Sterling.Oſbert alſo in this place cauſed a ſtone bridge to be made ouer the water of Forth, in ſtead of the woodden bridge which the Picts had made there, and was now pulled downe, and in the midſt of this new ſtone bridge, he ſet vp a croſſe, whereon were grauen theſe verſes.

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