The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun printed on parallel pages from the Cottonian and Wemyss mss., with the variants of the other texts: Edited with introduction, notes, and glossary by F. J. Amours |
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 | CHAPTER LXXXIII. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun |  |
CHAPTER LXXXIII.
Quhat tyme Brettane tuke Cristindome
Throu Eleutherius, pape of Rome.
Throu Eleutherius, pape of Rome.
A hundreth and four score of ȝere
And fully five, or þarby neire,
Quhen þat Sothir þe paip wes deid
Elutherius tuke his steid,
And sat in till it xv. ȝere
Sex moneth and sevin dais cleire.
And fully five, or þarby neire,
Quhen þat Sothir þe paip wes deid
Elutherius tuke his steid,
And sat in till it xv. ȝere
Sex moneth and sevin dais cleire.
The king of Brettane Lucyus
Wrait till Elutherius,
And maid him instance specially
To send in till Brettane in hy
Off his clerkis for to preche
The Cristin treuth, and for to teche
To tak bapteme, for nane may
But it be sauf on ony way;
And on þis manere and þis caiss
Brettane first conuertit wes,
And all þe barnage of that land
Than baptist wer and weill trowand,
And stedfast stude in to þat fay
Till Dioclesianis day;
And þat is, gif the sovme be sene,
A hundreth winter and sextene,
Or nere tharby, as sum men wrait,
And varyiss as þai set the dait.
Wrait till Elutherius,
And maid him instance specially
To send in till Brettane in hy
Off his clerkis for to preche
The Cristin treuth, and for to teche
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But it be sauf on ony way;
And on þis manere and þis caiss
Brettane first conuertit wes,
And all þe barnage of that land
Than baptist wer and weill trowand,
And stedfast stude in to þat fay
Till Dioclesianis day;
And þat is, gif the sovme be sene,
A hundreth winter and sextene,
Or nere tharby, as sum men wrait,
And varyiss as þai set the dait.
Xxviii. bischopis þan
Were of ydolis in Brettane,
And thre archbischopis als
Were þat tyme of ydolis fals;
The bischopis þai callit Flamynes,
And þe archibischopis callit wes
Archiflamynes, and syne thareft
In to the steid of þaim wes left
Bischopis, quhare that Flamynes,
And archbischopis quhare gretare wes.
Off that papis auctorite
He gert Schir Lucyus hovin be;
This paip als Eleutherius
Brettane to the trewth wan þus.
He ordanit als at nane suld be
But challange put out of his gre,
For Crist, he said, wist weill Iudas
Baith a theif and a tratour was,
Bot, for he wes nocht of sic thing
Accusit of law ȝit of tholing,
He wes nocht put fra his office,
Bott bydand did furþ his seruice
Amangis þe appostles, and quhat at he
Did with þame for þare dignite
Ferme and stable it wes left,
And appruffit weill þareft.
Were of ydolis in Brettane,
And thre archbischopis als
Were þat tyme of ydolis fals;
The bischopis þai callit Flamynes,
And þe archibischopis callit wes
Archiflamynes, and syne thareft
In to the steid of þaim wes left
Bischopis, quhare that Flamynes,
And archbischopis quhare gretare wes.
Off that papis auctorite
He gert Schir Lucyus hovin be;
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Brettane to the trewth wan þus.
He ordanit als at nane suld be
But challange put out of his gre,
For Crist, he said, wist weill Iudas
Baith a theif and a tratour was,
Bot, for he wes nocht of sic thing
Accusit of law ȝit of tholing,
He wes nocht put fra his office,
Bott bydand did furþ his seruice
Amangis þe appostles, and quhat at he
Did with þame for þare dignite
Ferme and stable it wes left,
And appruffit weill þareft.
| CHAPTER LXXXIII. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun | |