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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Romane empire being brought into irreco|uerable ruine by the Uandals, Gothes, Hunnes, Frenchmen, and other barbarous nations, occupi|eng sundrie parts and portions thereof, put the Britains out of all hope to haue anie assistance from the emperors, which caused them to remaine in Conanus [...] Britaine go|eth about to persuade his countriemen to breake the peace conclu|ded with the Scots and Picts. quiet certein yéers without attempting any exploit against the Scots or Picts, and so duelie paid their couenanted tribute, though sore against their wils, if they might otherwise haue remedied it. At the last about ten yéers after the cõclusion of this last peace, it chanced that one Conanus the sonne of the aboue EEBO page image 90 mentioned Conanus, descended of the bloud of the Octauij, sometimes kings of the Britains, sore ma|ligned to sée his countrie thus brought into thral|dome of the Scotish nation, and deuising how to find some redres, called togither the most part of the Bri|tish nobilitie, by secret message home to a manour place which he had within a thicke wood in the coun|trie of Kent, and there opening vnto them a great péece of his mind, persuaded them with the weighti|est reasons he could imagine, to leuie warre against the Scots and Picts, hauing at that present, meanes now since the last warres to mainteine it, as well by reason of their increase both of able men, as al|so of substance to furnish them withall.