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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hungus the Pictiſhe king to ſhewe himſelfe yet more mindefull of the due honoring of the ho|ly Apoſtle,Hungus repai|reth S. A [...]os Church. by whoſe ayde he acknowledged him|ſelfe to haue got the victorie aforeſayde, not only augmented his Church with new buildings and neceſſarie reparations, but encreaſed the number of prieſts in the ſame for the celebrating of diuine ſeruice: he alſo gaue many riche and coſtly orna|ments vnto the ſame, as Chalices, Cruets, Ba|ſons & ſuch like.Images of golde and ſiluer. Moreouer he cauſed to be made the Images of chriſt and his .xij. Apoſtles of fine gold and ſiluer, which hee beſtowed there, with a caſe alſo of beaten golde,Tenthes to be giuen vnto the Cleargie. therein to incloſe the re|lykes of S. Andrew. And beſides this, he ordey|ned that the Spiritualtie ſhould haue the tenthes of all increaſe of goods: as of corne, cattailes, her|bage, EEBO page image 167 and ſuch like through his realme and fur|ther that ſpirituall perſon [...] ſhould not be [...] to anſwere before any [...]

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