Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The nation of the Picts at this time is in league The testimo|nie of Beda. with the Englishmen, and gladlie is partaker of the vniuersall peace and veritie with the catholike church. Those Scots which inhabit Britaine, con|tenting themselues with their owne bounds, go a|bout to practise no deceitfull traines, nor fraudulent deuises against the Englishmen. The Britains, though for the most part through a familiar hatred doo impugne the English nation, and the state of the whole catholike church, obseruing not rightlie the feast of Easter, besides other naughtie vsages, yet both the diuine power and humane force vtterlie resisting them, they are not able in neither behalfe to atteine vnto their purposed intentions; as they which though partlie frée, yet in some behalfe are thrall and mancipat to the subiection of the English|men: which Englishmen now in acceptable peace and quietnesse of time, manie amongest them of Northumberland, as well of the nobilitie as other, laieng away armour and weapon, applie themselues to the reading of holie scripture, more desirous to be in houses of vertuous conuersation, than to ex|ercise feats of warre. What will come thereof, the age that followeth shall perceiue and behold. ¶ With these words dooth Beda end his historie, continued till the yeare 734, in the which yeare Mordacke the 734. Mordack en|ded his life the same yeare that saint Be|da made an end of his hi|storie. Scotish king ended his life.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 He repared sundrie churches and religious hou|ses, which being defaced with violence of the eni|mies inuasions in time of warre, had not béene re|edified by his ancestors. But amongest other, he bestowed much cost vpon the church where the bodie of S. Ninian lieth, in the towne ancientlie called Candida Casa, & now Whitterne or [...]huitterne. Candida Ca|sa now called Whitterne. Saint Beda calleth that place Pictiminia, and the bishop which at the same time held the church there, hé nameth Acta, auouching how he was the first that was bishop thereof after the daies of saint Ninian. Which if it be true, it must néeds be that afterwards some vacation happened in that see for a time, sith it is notified in the Scotish histories, that the westerne Iles, Galloway, and other regions néere adioining, were subiect vnto the bishop of Sodor (whose sée is in the Ile of Man) vnto the daies of Malcolme the third, who restored rather than ordeined the bishops sée in Candida Casa againe, after such vacation as before is specified.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 EEBO page image 118 BUt now to returne touching the gouernement of the Scotish kingdome, I find that after the Ethsine. Ethsine suc|caedeth Mor|dake. deceasse of Mordake last remembred, his nephue na|med Ethsine, the sonne of the seuenth Eugenius, succaeded in the state; a man naturallie inclined vn|to peace and maintenance of iustice. The league [...] peaceable prince. which his predecessors Eugenius and Mordake had kept with their neighbors the Britains, English|men and Picts, he duelie likewise obserued. His chiefe studie was to purge his realme of all such as were knowen to be open barrettors and offendors in anie wise, against the peace and common quiet of his subiects; so that causing sundrie notable exam|ples of iustice to be executed vpon such euill dooers, he was had in such reuerend dread amongest his subiects, that none of them durst once whisper anie euill of him. Neither had they verelie anie cause so to doo, while he looked to the administration himselfe.