Compare 1587 edition: 1 Not farre hence there lyeth the great Ile of Britayne, in the northe parte whereof,The Irish per|ſuadeth the Picts to place themſelues in Britayn. beeing voyde of inhabitantes, your manhode and po|licies maye purchaſe for you roomthes to place yourſelues at eaſe, we ſhall appoynt you cap|taines to guide you thither, we ſhall aſſiſt to ſettle you with oure forces in that countreye, make readie your ſhippes that ye maye paſſe thither with all conuenient ſpeede. Encoura|ged with this perſuaſion they toke their courſe towards the north parts of Britain now cal|led Scotland,Marius other|vviſe called Aruiragus king of Britons. where contrarie to their expec|tation Marius king of Britayne was readye to awayte their comming, and with ſharp ba|tayle vanquiſhing them in fielde, ſlewe Ro|derike with a greate number of his retinues. Thoſe that eſcaped with lyfe, and ſoughte to him for grace, he licenced to inhabite the vt|termoſt end of Scotland. This Marius Hũ|frey Lluyd taketh to bee the ſame whome the Romain writers name Aruiragus, and reig|ned about the yere of our Lord .70. a Prince of a noble courage and of no ſmall eſtimation in his dayes (as ſhould ſeeme by that which is written of him.) His right name (as the ſayde Humfrey Lluyd auoucheth) was Meurig.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But now concerning the Pights, whether that thoſe that eſcaped with lyfe, got ſeates by EEBO page image 7 king Meurigs graunte (as aboue is ſpecified,) or that getting to their ſhippes, they withdrew into the Iles of Orkeney, and there remayned. Wy|ues they wanted alſo to increaſe their iſſue:Picts mariyng vvith the Irish, [...] couenaunte the ſucceſsion of their kings. and bycauſe the Britons thoughte ſkorne to matche their daughters with ſuch an vnknown and new comen nation, the Pictes continued theyr firſte acquaintaunce with the Iriſhe, and by entreatie obteyned wyues from them, with condition, that if the crowne ſhould happe to fall in contention, they ſhoulde yelde thus muche to the prerogatiue of the woman, that the Prince ſhoulde be elected rather of the bloud royall of the female kind than of the male. Which order (ſayth Beda) the Picts were well knowne to keepe vnto his tyme.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But howe ſoeuer wee ſhall giue credit to this hiſtorie of the firſt comming of Pictes into this lande, if we grant that to be true which Ge [...]rey of Monmouth reporteth of this victorie obteyned by Marius agaynſt the Pictes, yet haue I thou|ght good to aduertiſe the Reader, that the Bry|tons of this Ile were diſquieted by y^e nation long before the ſuppoſed tyme of the ſayde king Ma|rius. For Mamertinus in his Oration entitled Panaegiricus, Max. Dictus hathe theſe woordes, (ſpeakyng of the conqueſt whiche Iulius Ceſar had heere agaynſt the Brytons) but in that age (ſayeth he) Brytayn was neyther furniſhed with anye ſhippes of warre for battayle on the Sea, and the Romaynes after the warres of Affrike and Aſia, were well practiſed wyth the late war|res agaynſte Pyrates, and after that agaynſte Mithridates, in whiche they were exerciſed as well by ſea as lande.