Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the meane time liued the Scotish and Pictish kings in good quiet and rest, applieng their studies onelie how to instruct their people now after the The Scots applie them|selues to peace. warres were once ended, in laudable exercises and necessarie occupations, conuenient for the time of peace, wherby their realmes might flourish in welth and prosperitie without dread of anie forren power. For they saw such tokens of ruine in the British estate, as small likelihood appeared, that the same should at anie time be able to recouer againe the for|mer force and dignitie. Finallie the Scotish king Eugenius hauing aduanced the estate of his coun|trie vnto more felicitie and wealth than anie of his predecessors had euer doone before him, after he had reigned thirtie yéeres, he ended his life about the The death of Eugenius the Scotish king. fourth yéere of Leo, that vsurped the empire of Con|stantinople.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 BUt forsomuch as Eugenius left no issue behind him, his brother named Dongard succéeded in Dongard. Dongard king of Scots. 461. H. B. The studie of Dongard for preseruation of iustice and good orders. The reparing of castels by K. Dongard. the estate. He began his reigne in the yéere 470, and his chéefest studie was, according to his brothers example, to prouide for the maintenance of good or|ders and iustice, appointing in euerie quarter men of good fame and report to haue the administration vn|der him, with commandement that they should dili|gentlie foresée, that euerie man might inioy his owne. He himselfe tooke vpon him also to see to the reparing of such castels as were decaied, and to the building vp of new in places where he thought most expedient, speciallie néere to the British borders, for he well considered that peace increased riches, riches pride and presumption, with other sinnes, which could not long indure without the plague of wars. Therefore he doubting the changes of scornefull for|tune, thought good in time of peace to prouide for the dangers of warre, when the same should happen vn|to him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 These ciuill policies and princelie prouisions for defense of his countrie and subiects increased the fame of Dongard mightilie, but that which he did to|wards the aduancement of religion did most excée|dinglie set foorth his commendation. First, all such religious men as followed the trade of life taught by Paladius and others, which came with him from Rome, he caused them to be highlie reuerenced: and The bou [...]|ous liberalitie of Dongard towards churchmen. for the maintenance of their liuing, he assigned foorth lands, houses, and other kinds of reuenues in diuers places of his realme, and granted not onelie vnto them, but also vnto all other, being within anie or|ders of clergie, sundrie priuileges, appointing that the churches & abbeies with other holie places should be infranchised and taken for sanctuaries, that all Sanctuaries. such as fled to the same for safegard of their liues, should be suffered to rest in peace, so long as they kept them within the same.