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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Vnkyth fights and ſtraunge wounders ap|peared.In theſe dayes alſo many ſtraunge ſightes were ſeene in ſundrie partes of Brytaine before the laſt mentioned ouerthrow: the Moone be|ing in playne oppoſition to the Sunne when it ſhould be moſt round appeared in a quadrant fi|gure.

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