Compare 1587 edition: 1 This was in the yeare after the byrth of our Sauiour .202. from the creation of the worlde 4170. and after the firſte erection of the Scot|tiſhe kingdome .530. as Harriſon in his chrono|logie dothe manifeſtly confirme.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer this Donald was the firſte as the Scottiſhe chronicles alledge, that cauſed ſiluer and golde to be coyned in his realme.Donald firſte cauſed ſiluer and gold to be coyned in Scotland. The ſtamp whiche he deuiſed for the ſame, was a croſſe on the one ſide, and his face on the other. Before that time the Scottes vſed no coyne, but eyther exchãged and bartered ware for ware, either elſe occupied with Bryttiſhe and Romaine money, as diuers marble cheſtes full of the ſame whiche haue bene founde of late yeares in ſundry partes of Scotland, do very well witneſſe.