Compare 1587 edition: 1 They confe|derate them|ſelues togitherThey beeing thus agreed to make warres in this quarell, and for the ſame purpoſe to ioyne theyr whole puyſſance togither, there roſe a doubt whome they myght chooſe for theyr generall Captaine, for that it was feared leaſt there might growe ſome ſecrete enuie amongeſt the Nobles being of equal power, if one ſhould be in this caſe preferred before an other.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 For the auoyding of which miſchiefe, by the graue admonition of one Comus, a noble man of the parties of Wales,Caratake cho|ſen to be cap|taine of the Brytaynes. they accorded to ſende Meſſengers vnto Caratake the King of Scot|lande, requyring him to ayde them in their right and iuſt quarel agaynſt Aruiragus and the Ro|maines, whereby hee might reuenge the iniurie done to his ſyſter Queene Voada and hir iſſue,Aruiragus woulde diſen|herite hys owne children which he had by Voada. whome the father throughe counſayle of the Ro|maines purpoſed to diſenherite, to the ende, ſuche chyldren as he had by Geniſſa (for that they were of the Romain bloud) might enioy the kingdome.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 They further declared, that all the Brytiſhe Lordes, whiche were confederate in this entre|priſe, had choſen him by common aſſent to bee their general and chief leader, if it might ſo pleaſe him to take it vpon him, as their [...] was hee would: conſidering the iuſt cauſes of there warre, and the ſuretie whiche by victorie gotten might enſue vnto al the inhabitants of the whole Iſle of Albion.