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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe conditions of peace though they ſee|med very ſtreight and grieuous to the Brytiſhe nobilitie, yet for that they vnderſtoode not how to make a better bargayne, they perſwaded the multitude to accept them, and ſo a league there|vpon EEBO page image 108 was concluded amongſt thoſe people, and the publike ſtate of the lande brought to a more quiet rule than it had bene before. Thus were the Brytains made tributarie to the Scottiſh|men and Pictes,The Brytons tributary to the Scottes & Pictes. about .500. yeares after Iu|lius Ceſar had brought them in ſubiection to the Romains, being in the yere after the birth of our Sauiour .446.436. H. B. and of Eugenius his raygne ouer the Scottiſh men the .vij.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 [figure appears here on page 108] In this ſeaſon was this Iſle of Albion ſore infected with ye hereſie of ye Pe|lagians,The hereſie of the Pelagians. & ther|fore Pope Ce|leſtine ſent one Paladius a ler|ned man vnto the Scottes,Paladius ſente into Scotland. to preſerue thẽ frõ that infection, and ordeyned him Biſhop the firſt in Scotland that had his inueſture from Rome, for all the other before him, were ordeyned by the voyces or ſuffrages of the people, chooſing them foorth amongſt the Monkes and Prieſts called Culdeis, Of this Pala|dius, looke more in Ire|land. as the Scottiſhe Chronicles do reporte. Paladius with right good & wholeſome exhor|tations purged the Scottes and Pictes of ſun|drie ſuperſtitious rites of theyr olde Gentilliſh idolatrie, till thoſe dayes vſed amongſt them, wherevpõ he is named and reputed for the Scot|tiſhmens apoſtle.Paladius ac|compted the apoſtle of Scotlande. Hee lieth at Fordune, a towne in Mernes, where his relikes remained, and were long after had in great eſtimation.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Seruan biſhop of Orkeney, & Teruan arche|biſhop of pictland. [figure appears here on page 108] Moreouer he inſtituted one Seruan Bi|ſhoppe of the Orkeneys, yt hee might in|ſtruct the in|habitãts there in the fayth of Chriſte, which as yet they had not recey|ued, and one Teruan, whõ he himſelf had baptyſed, hee made Archbiſhop of Picte lande.

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