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Compare 1587 edition: 1 After the returne of theſe laſt meſſengers, Ce|ſar was fully reſolued to enter into their Coun|treys, to force them vnto that by dynt of ſworde, wherevnto by treatie he might not enduce them:The rebellion of the Gaules breaketh Cae|ſar his pur|poſed iourney agaynſt the Scottes. and had ſet forwarde on that iourney ſhortly af|ter in deede, if he had not beene called backe into Fraunce, to pacifie ſundrie commotions there rayſed by the reuolting of the people inhabiting thoſe Countreys, where the Picardes and Nor|mans, with other the inhabitantes neare aboute Chartres, now dwell.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The common Scottiſhe Chronicles record, howe Iulius Ceſar came as farre as Kalendar wood,Kalendar or Caledon wood & there wan by force the citie of Camelon where the Pictiſh kings vſed moſt to ſoiourne.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This cannot be true, for Caeſar came not neare Scot|land, as in the Hiſtorie of Englande it appeareth.Herevnto the ſame Chronicles adde, that Ceſar buylded a great ſtone houſe of .xxiiij. cu|bites in heigth, and of .xij. cubites in breadth, of ſquare hewen ſtones, right workemanly framed, which houſe they ſaye Ceſar cauſed to be vſed in ſteede of a iudgement Hall, and here placed it neare the Ryuer of Caron, ouer agaynſt the forenamed Citie of Camelone, as a witneſſe that the Romaynes armie had beene ſo farre for|warde within that Countrey.

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