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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Britains hauing receiued this ouerthrow, saw no helpe which waie to recouer their losses, but onelie to sue for peace at the victorers hands. They sent therefore an orator vnto the Scotish & Pictish kings, beseeching them humblie to grant them a peace, euen with what conditions it should please them to prescribe. The kings not mooued onelie with The Bri|tains make humble sute for peace. the present fortune of the Britains, but also partlie with their owne, hauing lost no small number of right worthie personages in the battell, were con|tented to grant a peace vpon these conditions: That Peace gran|ted by the Scots with the conditions of the same. the Britains should in no wise receiue anie lieute|nant or armie hereafter from Rome, nor suffer anie enimie of the Scotish and Pictish estats, of what na|tion soeuer he were, to passe through their countrie. They should enter into no league with anie citie or nation, nor be about to make anie warres with|out consent of the Scotish and Pictish kings, and fur|ther should be readie to serue them against all ma|ner of enimies whensoeuer they should be sent for. Moreouer, they should remooue with their wiues, children, and whole families out of all those coun|tries, lieng betwixt Tine and Humber, resigning the possession of the same vnto the Scotishmen and Picts.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Also they should giue thréescore thousand peeces 60000 pound saith Balan|tine, after the rate of Sco|tish monie. 20000 pound saith the same Balantine, so that he estee|meth those péeces of gold to be of the va|lue of French crownes. of gold then currant to the Scotish & Pictish kings, towards the dispatch of their souldiors wages, and further should yeeld as a tribute twentie thousand peeces of gold, to be paied yeerelie vnto the seuerall vses of the victorers. They should likewise deliuer one hundred hostages of such as the two kings shuld appoint, betwixt the age of eightéene and thirtie yeers. These conditions of peace though they séemed verie streict & greeuous to the British nobilitie, yet for that they vnderstood not how to make a better bargaine, they persuaded the multitude to accept them, and so a league therevpon was concluded a|mongst those people, and the publike state of the land brought to a more quiet rule than it had béene before. Thus were the Britains made tributarie to the Scotishmen and Picts, about 500 yéeres after The Bri|tains tribu|tarie to the Scots and Picts. 436. H. B. The heresie of the Pela|gians. Paladius sent into Scotland. Iulius Cesar had brought them in subiection to the Romans, being in the yéere after the birth of our Sauiour 446, and of Eugenius his reigne ouer the Scotishmen the seuenth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this season was the Ile of Albion sore infected with the heresie of the Pelagians, and therefore pope Celestine sent one Paladius a learned man vnto the Scots, to preserue them from that infecti|on, and ordeined him bishop, the first in Scotland that had his inuesture from Rome: for all the other before him were ordeined by the voices or suffrages of the people, choosing them foorth among the moonks and priests called Culdeis, as the Scotish chronicles Of this Pa|ladius looke more in Ire|land. doo report. Paladius with right good and wholesome exhortations purged the Scots and Picts of sundrie superstitious rites of their old gentilish idolatrie, till those daies vsed amongst them, wherevpon he is named and reputed for the Scotishmens apostle. Paladius ac|compted the apostle of Scotland. Hée lieth at Fordune, a towne in Mernes, where his relikes remained, and were long after had in great estimation.

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