Compare 1587 edition: 1 Claudius hauing receyued his Letters, and vnderſtanding the effect of the ſame, ſente one Oſtorius Scapula,Oſtorius Sca|pula is ſent in|to Brytayne. a man of highe lynage, and of good experience both in peace and warre, to haue the gouernance in Brytayne.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 About the tyme of whoſe arriuall into Bry|tayne,Aulus Planc|tius dyeth. Aulus Planctius departed out of thys worlde at Camelon, where hee then ſoiourned. Hys bodye was burned, and according to the vſage of the Romaines in thoſe dayes, the aſhes were cloſed in a Cheſt,The vſage a|mong Scottes to burne the deade bodie. and buryed within the Church of Claudius and Victoria, which (as is ſayde) Veſpaſian buylded neare vnto Camelon, vpon the Riuer ſide there. Hereof was a cuſtome taken vp amongſt both Scottes and Pictes, as ſome thinke, to burne the bodies of the deade, and to burie the aſhes. Whereof there hath beene founde diuerſe tokens and monuments in thys our age. As in the yeare 1521. at Findour a vil|lage in Merne, fiue miles diſtant from Aberdine there were founde in an olde graue two Cheſtes of a ſtraunge making ful of aſhes, either of them being engrauen with Romaine letters, whiche ſo ſoone as they were brought into the ayre, fell to duſt. Likewiſe in the fieldes of an other town called Kenbacten in Marre a ten myles diſtant from Aberdyne, about the ſame tyme were found by certayne Ploughmen two Sepulchres made of cut and ſquared ſtones, wherein were a foure Cheſtes, of workemanſhippe, bigneſſe and in|ſcription lyke to the other two. Many the ſem|blable monumentes haue beene founde in diuerſe places in Scotlande in tymes paſt: but it is to be thought, that in theſe Sepultures there were Romaynes buryed, and neyther Scottes nor Pictes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But nowe to our purpoſe. Immediately vp|pon the comming of Oſtorius into Brytayne, EEBO page image 39 the people of the weſt Countreys rebelled,The Brytayns yet eftſoones rebell. pro|curing the Northren men with the Scottes of Galloway, and all the Pictes to doe ſhe like.