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Compare 1587 edition: 1 There were other alſo of right famous me|morie aboute the ſame time, that ceaſſed not in preaching, and inſtructing the people in the right belieue, as Modocus, Priſcus, Calanus, Ferra|nus, Ambianus, and Carnocus, called by an old auncient name in the Scottiſh tongue Culdei, Culdei. that is, to vnderſtande Cultores dei, or as you woulde ſay in Engliſh the worſhippers of God.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 What yeare Fincomark be|gan his raigne.But nowe to the purpoſe touching Finco|mark, ye ſhal vnderſtãd, that he began his raigne in the yere, (as W. Harriſon ſaith) after the birth of our Sauiour .325.

322. H B. 5490. H.B. 655. H.B.

Firſt of Con|ſtantine. H.B.

after the creation of the world .4292. and from the firſt eſtabliſhing of the Scottiſhe kingdome .652. and in the .20. yeare of Conſtantine the Emperour.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 It chaunced that Octauius king of the Bry|tains was vanquiſhed by Traherus a Romaine capitaine,Octauius is vanquiſhed, & fleeth into Scotland. & forced for his refuge to flee vnto this Fincomark then king of Scottes, who receyued him as a friẽd. And furthermore though he were required by Traherus to deliuer him vnto his hands, as a traytour & a rebell vnto the Romain Empyre, yet Fincomark refuſed ſo to do, choo|ſing rather to ſuſtayne all Traherus his malice, and to haue warres with the Romaine Empe|rour thã to betray his friend, who had put his life into his hands vpõ an eſpeciall truſt of ſafegard.

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