Compare 1587 edition: 1 In whiche meane tyme Victorine ſent let|ters vnto Rome to the Emperour Marcus An|tonius Aurelius,Victorine ſen|deth leuen to Rome. who as then gouerned the Empyre, ſignifying vnto him in what ſtate things ſtoode in Brytaine: Further declaring that if conuenient ſuccours were not ſente in tyme, it woulde bee harde to reſiſt the [...]ous rage of the enimies, by reaſon of the ſmall truſt hee perceyued was to bee had in the Brytaines, beeing no leſſe readie vppon occaſion to make warres in recouerie of their libertie, than the Scottes or Pictes were too encroche vppon them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Emperour vpon recept of theſe letters, thought in his minde that Victorine was not ſo valiant a Captaine as the caſe requyred, and that therevppon the Scottes and Pictes became the more enboldened to reſiſt,Victorine is ſent for to re|turne vnto Rome, and one Calphurnius ſent into Bry|taine to ſuc|ceede in his roome. therefore hee ſente for him home, appoynting one Agricola Cal|phurnius to ſucceede in hys roome, who was (as ſome haue lefte in wryting) the Nephew of Iulius Agricola, the moſte famous Cap|tayne of the Romaines that euer came into Brytaine.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Calphurnius comming into Brytain with the armie, ioyned to the fame the power which he founde there, as well of the Brytaynes as of other ſeruing vnder the Romaine enſignes. Which done, he repayred to Yorke,Calphurnius entreth into the borders of his enimies. and after towardes the Riuer of Tine, where beeing ary|ued, he marched foorth into the borders of his eni|myes, finding all the Countrey rounde aboute him ſo clearly waſted and burned, that there was not a houſe left ſtanding, nor a graine of corne, or one heade of Cattell to be founde therein. Yet notwithſtanding al this, forth he paſſed through Northumberlande, and entering into Pictlande waſted al that was before him with fire & ſword. And for ſo muche as Winter came vpon, when hee had done his will in that behalfe,Calphurnius returneth to Yorke. hee retur|ned vnto Yorke, where hee ſoiourned vntill the Spring.