Siquidem ubi Scottorum in praefata ipsorum patria, quomodo et Brettonum in ipsa Brittania vitam ac professionem minus ecclesiasticam in multis esse cognovit, maxime quod paschae sollemnitatem non suo tempore celebrarent, sed, ut supra docuimus, a decima-quarta luna usque ad vicesimam Dominicae resurrectionis diem observandum esse putarent; scripsit cum coepiscopis suis exhortatoriam ad eos epistolam: obsecrans eos, et contestans unitatem pacis et catholicae observations cum ea quae toto orbe diffusa est Ecclesia Christi, tenere; cuius videlicet epistolae principium hoc est:
For as soon as he knew the life and profession of the Scots in their forenamed country to be scarce ecclesiastical in many points (like as was the Britons at that time in Britain itself), specially because they celebrated not the solemnity of Easter in due time, but (as we have before shewed) thought that they must observe the day of our Lords resurrection from the 14th moon to the 20th; he, I say, with his fellow bishops wrote unto them an exhorting epistle, beseeching and warning them to hold fast the unity of peace and catholic observation with that Church of Christ which was spread over all the whole world; of which epistle namely the beginning is as follows:
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