Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then was the kingdome of Northumberland gi|uen vnto Oswald brother to Eufred, both in respect of the right which he had thereto, and also of the zeale which he bare to the aduancement of Christes religi|on, shewing himselfe in consideration thereof, an earnest enimie to his brother Eufred, and all his partakers, in so much that in the day of the battell, he was one of the forwardest capteins against them. Unto this Oswald was sent a Scotishman called Corman, to instruct the Northumberland men in faith, and after him Aidan, as in the English his [...]orie ye may read more at large: finallie he was slaine by Penda king of Mercia, as in the same historie appeareth. His death chanced in the third yeare of 12. H. B. Donwald the Scotish king, who sore lamented the same, as of that prince whome he loued right intire|lie. Neither liued the said king Donwald anie long time after the death of his deere friend; for that in the fifteenth yeare of his reigne, being got into a bote to fish in the water called Lochtaie for his re|creation, his chance was to be drowned, by reason the bote sanke vnder him. Certeine daies after Donwald the Scotish king drowned 645. H. B. his bodie being found and taken vp was buried amongst his ancestors in Colmekill, in the yeare of our Lord 647.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time there liued in France thrée brethren of great holinesse of life, being sonnes vnto Philtan king of Ireland, the which he begot of his wife Galghetes, descended of the linage of the kings in Scotland. The names of which thrée bre|thren were as followeth, Furseus, Foilanus, and Ultanus. Furseus professing himselfe a moonke of saint Benets order, passed ouer into France, there to set foorth and inlarge that profession, and being re|ceiued of king Clowis, began the foundation of a monasterie there called Latinie, in the which he pla|ced moonks of that order, and began to sow in those parties the seeds of the gospell, but not without the darnell of mens traditions, as Iohn Bale saith in the 14 centurie of the British writers. His two bre|thren Foilan and Ultan followed him ouer into France, and both by word and example instructed the Frenchmen to imbrace the faith of Christ, and to re|nounce the religion of the gentiles.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 So that it séemeth as yet, such as professed them|selues to be moonks, and men of religion (as they were called) had not left off to labour in the Lords vineyard, spending their time in reading the scrip|tures, to instruct and teach others, and to exercise praier and thanksgiuing: so as no small number by their wholesome doctrine and good example were conuerted to the christian faith. Foilan at length Anno 854. [...]gebertus. Fossense mo|nasterium. Strife about the celebra|ting of the feast of East [...] was martyred in a monasterie which he had founded in France called Fosse. About the same time there was also a contention amongst them in Albion for kéeping of the Easter day, the Scotish bishops and some of the Britains varieng in their account from all other prelats of the west: but at length through persuasion of the pope they confessed their error (if it ought so to be taken) and consented to celebrate that feast according to the account of other nations. These things chanced in the daies of king Don|wald.