Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Hungus the Pictish king to shew himselfe yet more mindfull of the due honoring of the holie apo|stle, by whose aid he acknowledged himselfe to haue got the victorie aforesaid, not onelie augmented his Hungus repa|reth saint An|drews church. church with new bildings & néedfull reparations, but increased the number of priests for the celebrating of diuine seruice; he also gaue manie rich and costlie ornaments vnto the same, as chalices, cruets, ba|sons, & such like. Moreouer, he caused to be made the images of Christ and his 12 apostles of fine gold Images of gold and sil|uer. and siluer, which he bestowed there; with a case also of beaten gold, therein to inclose the relickes of saint Andrew. And besides this, he ordeined that the spi|ritualtie should haue the tenths of all increase of Tenths to be giuen to the cleargie. goods: as of corne, cattels, herbage, and such like through his realme: and further that spirituall per|sons should not be compelled to answere before anie temporall iudge. But these beneficiall priuiledges the Pictish clergie did not long inioy. For Feredeth Feredeth ta|keth from the cleargie their priuileges. And why not. that was the fourth, which reigned amongest the Picts after Hungus, tooke from them all such gifts as this Hungus had giuen them, and further ordei|ned to the derogation of their priuileges, that they should answere for secular crimes afore secular ma|gistrats; Priests to be tried afore se|cular iudges. and that liuing vpon their former reue|nues, souldiers & men of war should inioy the other which Hungus, had so fréelie bestowed vpon them.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The nobles of the land mainteined Feredeth in his dooings, reckoning all that spirituall persons had to be but cast away, which was the cause (as some thought) that their kingdome came into such ruine, as shortlie after followed. There be some chronicles that write how these things, which are mentioned of Hungus, and Athelstane, chanced not altogither EEBO page image 125 about this season, but Hector Boetius followeth Ve|remond in most of his accounts, as the author whom he taketh to be most certeine, as well for the account of the time as in the course of the whole historie. And for that we meane not to presume wholie to derogat the same Boetius his credit, we haue not much dis|sented from him, but rather followed him in most places, leauing such doubts as may be woorthilie put foorth of that which he writeth, vnto the conside|ration of the diligent reader, sith it is not our pur|pose to impugne, but rather to report what we find written by others, except now and then by the way to admonish the reader of some vnlikeliehoods (as the same dooth séeme to vs and others) and happilie not without iust occasion.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 But now to our purpose. As well Hungus king of Picts, as Achaius king of Scots, after the ouer|throw and death of Athelstane, liued with their peo|ple in good quiet and rest: for the Englishmen at|tempted nothing against the Scots and Picts after|wards, during the time of their reignes. At length Achaius de|parteth out of [...]his life. 819. Achaius, after he had reigned 32 yeares, departed this life, in the yeare of our Lord 819, which was a|bout the sixt yeare of Hungus his dominion ouer the Picts. His bodie was buried in Colmekill, ac|cording to the maner of kings amongest his prede|cessors. In the dais of this Achaius (beside Clement and others, of whome before ye haue heard) liued bi|shop Geruadius a notable preacher in Murrey land, also bishop Glacian with Modan and Medan two brethren, all doctors and men of singular know|ledge, in respect whereof they were had in great cre|dit and estimation with the people.