The Holinshed Project

Holinshed Project Home

The Texts
1577

Previous | Next

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He repayred ſundrie Churches and religious houſes, whiche being defaced with violence of the enimies inuaſions in tyme of warre, had not beene reedified by hys aunceſters. But amongſt other, hee beſtowed muche coſte vppon the Churche where the bodie of Saint Ninian ly|eeth in the Towne aunciently called Candida Caſa, & now Whitterne or Qhuitterne.Candida Caſa, nowe called Whitterne. Saint Bede calleth that place Pictiminia, and the Byſhoppe whiche at the ſame tyme helde the EEBO page image 155 Church there, hee nameth Acta, auouching how he was the firſt that was Biſhop thereof after the dayes of Saint Ninian. Whiche if it bee true, it muſte needes bee that afterwardes ſome vacation happened in that Sea for a time, ſith it is notified in the Scottiſh hiſtories that the weſ|teſterne Iles, Galloway and other regions neare adioyning, were ſubiect vnto the Biſhop of So|dor whoſe Sea is in the Ile of Man vnto the dayes of Malcolme the thirde, who reſtored ra|ther than ordeyned the Biſhops Sea in Candi|da Caſa againe, after ſuche vacation as before is ſpecified.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ethfine [figure appears here on page 155] BVt now to return touching the gouernmẽt of the Scottiſhe kingdome,Ethfine ſuc|ceedeth Mor|dacke. I find that after the deceaſſe of Mordacke laſt remẽbred, his nephewe na|med Ethfine, the ſonne of the ſeuenth Eugenius ſucceeded in the eſtate: a man naturally inclined vnto peace and maintenance of iuſtice.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 A peaceable prince.The league which his predeceſſours Euge|nius and Mordacke had kept with theyr neigh|bours the Brytaynes, Engliſhmen and Pictes, he duely lykewiſe obſerued.

Previous | Next