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Compare 1587 edition: 1 A peace con|cluded.Shortly after a peace was concluded betwixt the parties, with theſe conditions: that the Ro|mains ſhould content thẽſelues with that which they had in poſſeſſiõ before the beginning of theſe laſt warres, and ſuffer Corbreide to enioye all ſuche countreys as his brother Caratake helde. And likewiſe the Picts paying theyr former tri|bute for the finding of ſuche gariſons of Ro|mains as lay at Camelone, they ſhoulde be no further charged with any other exactiõs. More|ouer it was agreed, that neither the Scottes nor Pictes from thence foorth ſhould receyue or ſuc|cour any rebelles of French men or Brytains, nor ſhoulde ayde by any maner of meanes the inhabitantes of the Iſle of Man, who had done many notable diſpleaſures to the Romains du|ring the laſt warres.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Aulus Didius departeth this life at Londõ.This peace continued a .vj. yeares during the life of Aulus Didius, who at the end of thoſe .vj. yeares, departed this life at London, leauing be|hinde him all things in good quiet.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After his deceaſſe the Emperour Ne [...]o who ſucceeded Claudius,Verannius is made Lieute|nant of Bry|taine. appointed one Verannius to be lieutenant of Brytaine, a man very ambi|tious and muche deſirous of honour, by meanes wherof, in hope to aduaunce his name, he ſought occaſiõs to haue warres with the Scottiſh men: And at length hearing that certaine of them be|ing borderers had fetched booties out of Picte land, he ſent a great power of Romains to make a rode into the nexte Marches of the Scottes, from whence they brought a great ſpoyle, bothe of men and goodes.

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