Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this ouerthrow the warre was continued for two yéers space, by rodes and incursions made one vpon another in the confines of Kile and Gal|loway. In which meane while Planctius fell sicke of the [...]ix, which still continuing with him, brought him at length in such case, that he was not able to Planctius fal|leth sicke. trauell at all in the publike affaires of his office. So that he wrote his letters vnto the emperour Clau|dius, signifieng vnto him in what case he stood, and therevpon required that some sufficient personage might be sent to occupie his roome. Claudius hauing receiued his letters, and vnderstanding the effect of the same, sent one Ostorius Scapula, a man of high linage, and of good experience both in peace and war, Ostorius Scapula is sent into Britaine. to haue the gouernance in Britaine.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the time of whose arriuall into Britaine, Aulus Planctius departed out of this world at Ca|melon, where he then soiourned. His bodie was bur|ned, Aulus Plan|ctius dieth. and according to the vsage of the Romans in those daies, the ashes were closed in a chest, and buri|ed within the church of Claudius and Uictoria, which (as is said) Uespasian builded néere vnto Camelon, vpon the riuers side there. Hereof was a custome The vsage a|mongst the Scots to burne the deadbodie. taken vp amongst both Scots and Picts (as some thinke) to burne the bodies of the dead, and to burie the ashes: whereof there haue bene found diuerse to|kens and monuments in this our age. As in the yere 1521 at Fi [...]dor a village in Merne, fiue miles distant from Aberdine, there were found in an old graue two chests of a strange making full of ashes, either of them being ingrauen with Romane letters, which so soone as they were brought into the aire, fell to dust. Likewise in the fields of another towne called Kenbacten in Marre, ten miles distant from Aberdine, about the same time were found by cer|teine plowmen two sepulchres made of cut and squared stones, wherein were foure chests, of worke|manship, bignesse and inscription like to the other two. Manie the semblable monuments haue béene found in diuerse places in Scotland in times past: but it is to be thought, that in these sepulchres there were Romans buried, and neither Scots nor Picts.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 But now to our purpose. Immediatelie vpon the comming of Ostorius into Britaine, the people of the west countries rebelled, procuring the nor|therne The Bri|tains yet eft|soones rebell. The Bri|tains require aid of Cara|take. men with the Scots of Galloway, and all the Picts to doo the like. They sent also vnto Caratake, requiring him in this common quarell against the Romans to put to his helping hand for recouerie of the ancient libertie of the whole land of Albion, considering it was like they should match well i|nough with this new Romane capteine Ostorius Scapula, that vnderstood little of the maners and vsages of the Britains. But this notwithstanding, Ostorius being informed of all these practises, and remembring what furtherance it were for a cap|teine in the begining to win a name by some praise|woorthie The Bri|tains of the west part are chased. enterprise, he made first towards the we|sterne Britains, whome he thought to surprise yer they should assemble with the other rebels, and so méeting with them, he chased and tooke a great num|ber of them, as they fled here and there out of all order.