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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Moreouer he instituted one Seruan bishop of the Orkenies, that he might instruct the inhabitants Seruan bi|shop of Orke|nie, and Ter|uan archbi|shop of Pict|land. Unketh sights and strange won|ders appered. there in the faith of Christ, which as yet they had not receiued: and one Teruan, whome he himselfe had baptised, he made archbishop of Pictland. In these daies also manie strange sights were séene in sun|drie parts of Britaine before the last mentioned o|uerthrow: the moone being in plaine opposition to the sunne, when it should be most round, appeared in a quadrant figure. At Yorke it rained bloud: and trées in sundrie places being blasted, withered and died. The market place, or rather (if ye will so tearme it) Cheapeside in London opened, so that a great hole appeared, and manie houses were swallowed vp. A|bout the same season also (as is supposed) liued that Finmacoell the great hunter. huge personage Finmacoell, a Scotishman borne of seuen cubites in height. He was a great hunter, and sore feared of all men by reason of his mightie stature, and large lims: manie fables go abroad of him, not so agreeable to the likelihood of truth, as ought to be registred in an historie, and therefore here passed ouer with silence.