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Compare 1587 edition: 1 For this ſo manifeſt a myracle, after the battaile was once ended, and the victorie obtey|ned, Hungus repayred with his people following him,Saint Reule. vnto the Church of that bleſſed man Saint Regulus, nowe called Saint Andrewes, where they made theyr offrings wyth humble deuotion vnto the Relykes of the Apoſtle, rendring than|kes vnto him for theyr victorie with deuoute prayer after the accuſtomed maner then.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 They vowed there alſo at the ſame tyme (as the fame goeth)Why Scottiſh men vſe S Andros croſſe in warfare. that from thenceforth as well they as theyr poſteritie in tyme of warre ſhoulde weare a Croſſe of Saint Andrews for theyr badge and cogniſance. Which ordenance conti|nually after remayned with the Pictes, and after their deſtruction & exterminion, with the Scots euen vnto our time.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The bodie of Athelſtane was buried in the next Church vnto the place where the fielde was fought, howbeit,Athelſtane his buriall. ſome haue left in wryting that his head was cut off from the bodie and brought to Inchgaruie, where beeing ſet vppon a ſtake, it was ſhewed to the people in reproche of his iniu|rious enterpriſe.

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