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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The king beeing thus vertuouſly diſpoſed, cauſed the whole number of his ſubiectes by his enſample to be the better affectioned towards the aduauncement of religion. The report and fame wherof, moued that holy man Saint Colme, or Colombe,Saint Colme commeth o|uer forth of Ireland into Scotlande. to come ouer forth of Irelande (where hee had the gouernaunce of ſundrie houſes of Monks) with twelue other vertuous perſons in|to Albion, and there gathering togither a great number of Monkes, being here and there diſper|ſed abrode in the Countrey, [...]ee placed them or|derly in ſuch houſes, as king Conuall had buyl|ded and founded for that purpoſe, appoynting a|mongſt them rulers and miniſters, ſuche as hee thought moſt conuenient.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But Saint Colme himſelfe, and the other EEBO page image 137 twelue, whiche he brought ouer with him from Ireland, placing themſelues to inhabite in the Iſle of Iona, now called Colmekill, tooke great paynes to inſtruct the Scottes and Pictes in the true articles of the faith.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Amongſt the Pictes the ſame time the hereſie of Pelagius had infected the mindes of many,The hereſie of Pelagius, in [...]ightland. by meane that diuers of that nation hauing dwel|led long time in Brytaine, returning into theyr countrey; brought that peſtilent doctrine home with them, and taught it vnto other. Saint Colme therefore informed hereof, paſſed into Louthian vnto Brudeus as then king of the Pictes, earneſtly traueling to inſtruct bothe him and his people in the right beliefe, and to extyrpe out of theyr heartes al erronious opinions of that damnable ſect of the Pelagians lore.

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