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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus a generall peace as then raigning tho|rowout the whole worlde, it pleaſed the gyuer and authour of all peace to bee borne at the ſame tyme,The byrth of our Sauiour CHRIST. of that bleſſed virgin Marie, in the Citie of Bethleem in the tribe of Iuda. Which bleſſed and ſalutiferous byrth came to paſſe in the xij.10. H.B. yeare of Metellanus hys raigne, and in the xlij. of Auguſtus hys Empyre: from the fyrſte eſtabliſhing of the Scottiſhe kingdome by Fer|guſius 324. yeares,330. H.B. 5199. H.B. and after the creation of the worlde 3966. as Hariſon in his Chronologie doth manifeſtly conclude.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
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Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this, Metellanus raigned certain yeares in continuall peace and quietneſſe, euer readie to do the thing that might bee to the contentation and weale of his people.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Finally,Metellane de|parteth this worlde. 29. H.B. 14. H.B. hee paſſed oute of this life in the xxxix. yeare of his raigne, which was the .xxviij. after the byrth of our Sauiour, and .xiij. of Ty|berius the Emperour. Howbeit he left no iſſue a|liue behind him to ſucceede in the gouernment of the kingdome:

Caratake is proclaymed king.

This Caratake all the Brytiſh and Engliſhe a writers take to be a Brytaine, and inhabiting within that portion of the Iſle now called Englande.

for thoſe children which hee had begotten, hee buried in his life time, by meanes whereof one Caretake, ſonne to Cadallane, and nephewe to king Metellane by his ſiſter Eu|ropeia, was proclaymed King, as he that excel|led in ryches and puyſſaunt aucthoritie aboue all other the peeres and highe eſtates of the realme, and had not a little to doe in the adminiſtration of publike affayres in the latter dayes of his vncle Metellane.

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