Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this, giuing his minde to the aduaunce|ment of Religion and polytike gouernment of his ſubiectes, he ordeyned that the Hyſtories of hys aunceſtours ſhoulde be written in bookes and volumes,The king cauſeth his an|ceſtours hy|ſtories to be written. that poſteritie might haue to reade the ſame for enſample ſake. Theſe monumentes he alſo appoynted to bee kept and reſerued in the Abbay of Iona, nowe called Colmekill, for a perpetuall memorie: and ſuche as ſhoulde write the ſame, to remaine and haue liuings there in the Abbey.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer ſuche ſpirituall promotions as he perceyued to bee too meane and ſlender for the maintenance of the miniſter that ſhould ſerue the cure, he cauſed to be augmented in ſuche wiſe as was thought ſufficient. Hee concluded a league with the Saxons and Pictes, and obſerued the ſame during his lyfe,Eugenius the ſeuenth de|parteth out of this life. whiche hee ended at Aber|ne [...]hy, when he had raigned about .xvij. yeares, whereof the laſt fell in the yeare after the incarna|tion of our Sauiour .717.716. H. B. indictione .15.