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Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Eugenius began his raigne as we find in the yeare of our Lorde .440.430. H. B. after the firſt be|ginning of the Scottiſh kingdome .767.760. H.B. His fathers corps which at the firſt was ſecretely bu|ried as occaſion ſuffered; whiles the Romaines were yet in the Countrey,The bodie of Ferguſe is bu|ried in the Abbay of Iona otherwyſe Colmkill. hee cauſed to be taken vp, and conueyed ouer into the Ile of Iona, o|therwiſe called Colmekil, where with al ſolemne pomp and ceremonies it was intumulate, accor|ding to the ordinance which he himſelfe had de|uiſed in his life time, within the Abbey there.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In like maner Maximianus to the intent to eſtabliſh himſelfe the more quietly in the eſtate of Brytayne, and to deliuer his ſubiects the Bry|taynes, which bordered vpon the Scottiſh domi|nions, from all trouble of warres,Maximianus graunteth peace to the Scottiſh men. was conten|ted to make peace with the Scottes vpon lyght ſute made vnto him for the ſame.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this alſo, he being once fully eſtabliſhed in the eſtate of Britaine, coueted alſo to attaine to the ripe in gouernment of the whole Empyre, & therfore aſſembling al the forces of the Brytiſh youth ſayled into Gallia, cauſing himſelfe to be proclaimed emperor, & ſo vſurped ye title as in the EEBO page image 103 Engliſh and Italian Hyſtorie, you maye finde more largely expreſſed. He left behinde him in Brytayne his father in lawe Dionethus as chief gouernor their, with one legion of Romain ſoul|diours.

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