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Compare 1587 edition: 1 At length requyring a ſafecunduyte to re|turne into Denmarke,Ferguſe with leaue returned againe from Italie into Denmarke. he was licenced to depart with highe and right bountifull rewardes, as in part of recompence of his good and faythfull ſer|uice ſhewed, during the tyme of the warres, as wel in the life time of the ſayd Athaulfus, as alſo in the dayes of his predeceſſour the foreſayde Alaryke.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 About the ſame ſeaſon, the Biſhoppes ſea of Candida caſa, otherwyſe called Quhitterne, was fyrſt inſtituted by one Ninian a preacher, that tooke greate paynes,Saint Ninian. (as the report hathe gone) to inſtruct the Pictes and Brytaynes in EEBO page image 95 the Chriſtian fayth. Hee was afterwardes re|puted a Saint, and the place of his buriall had in ſuch veneration, that many vſed to reſort thither for deuotion ſake, as the maner in tymes paſt was when pilgrymage goings were vſed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But nowe to returne where wee left tou|ching the Pictes, and to ſhewe the maner howe the Scottes returned againe into Albanie: Yee ſhall vnderſtande, that the Pictes beeing brought into ſeruile bondage (as before wee haue partlye declared) and doubting dayly of worſe to enſue, they ſent ſecrete meſſengers vnto ſuche Scottes as remayned in exyle in the Weſterne Iles,The Picts ſent into forraine Countreys to call home the Scottes. in Norway, and in other partes of the worlde, promiſing them, if they woulde giue the attempt for recouerie of theyr auncient dwelling pla|ces in Albanie, they ſhoulde bee ſure of all the ayde that in them lay, being readie to ſpende their lyues to reuenge the iniuryes whiche they dayly ſuſteyned at the Romaines handes, whoſe con|tynuall practiſe euer was howe to oppreſſe the auncient libertyes of all ſuch Nations as came vnder theyr ſubiection. The experience where|of they nowe felte, to theyr vnſufferable gree|uaunce, looking for nothing elſe but ſhortlye to bee expulſed oute of theyr Countrey, and dryuen to goe ſeeke them other places to inha|bite in ſtraunge Countreys, after the manner of Outlawes, as it had chaunced alreadie to the Scottes by commaundement of Maximus, as before is expreſſed.

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