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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But after he was once fallen into age, he appoin|ted foure péeres in his realme to haue the chiefe go|uernance vnder him; as Donald the treasuror of Foure gouer|nors vnder the king. Argile, Collane of Athole, and Mordake of Gallo|way his lieutenants, and Conrath the thane of Murrey land. These hauing the procuration of all things touching the gouernement of the realme, v|sed not themselues so vprightlie in manie points as Uniust go|uernement. they ought to haue doone; but winked now and then at faults & trespasses committed by their kinsfolks and alies, permitting the nobilitie to liue according to their old accustomed maner of licentious liber|tie, to the small ease or commoditie of the other in|feriour states. Donald of the westerne Iles, a man of goodlie personage, but of disposition inclined to all naughtinesse, mainteined a great number of Donald of the Iles maintei|neth robbers. robbers and spoilers of the countrie, liuing onelie vpon rauine. For looke what they wanted, they would not faile to catch it, if it were in anie place a|broad where they might laie hands on it: so that all the husbandmen and commons of Galloway, in which countrie they most haunted, were brought in|to The oppres|sion of the commons of Galloway. woonderfull thraldome and miserie.