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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this, he went against the people called Ice|ni, Iceni. Oxfordshire is assailed. Some take the Iceni to be the North|folke men. which (as some thinke) inhabited the countrie now called Oxfordshire, but other take them to be North|folke men, who being gathered togither, were gotten into a strong place, inclosed about with a great ditch as they vse to fense pasture grounds, that no horsse|men should breake in vpon them: yet this notwith|standing, Ostorius assailed them within their strength, & in the end breaking downe the rampire, with such aid as he had, burst in at length amongst them, sleaing and taking the most part of them: for few or none escaped, they were so kept in on ech side. But of this battell, and likewise of other enterpri|ses, which Ostorius and other of the Romane lieute|nants atchiued here in Britaine, ye shall find more thereof in the historie of England according to the true report of the Romane writers, the which verelie make no mention either of Scots or Picts till the yéere of our Lord 320, at the soonest. And as for the Silures and Brigants remooued by Hector Boetius so farre northward, it is euidentlie prooued by Hum|frey Llhoid, and others, that they inhabited coun|tries conteined now within the limits of England. The like ye haue to vnderstand of the Ordouices where Caratake gouerned as king, and not in Car|rike, as to the well aduised reader I doubt not but it may sufficientlie appeare, as well in the descrip|tion as in the historie of England aforesaid.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 But now to returne where we left: the brute of this late victorie quieted the busie minds of such o|ther They of Gal|loway are bea ten and paci|fied. of the Britains, as were readie to haue reuol|ted. But they of Galloway would not at the first giue ouer, but in trust of aid at the hands of Cara|take continued in their rebellion, till Ostorius came thither, and beate downe such as made resistance, whereby the other were soone pacified. After this he Kile and Can tire wasted and spoiled. Caratake as|sembleth an armie. entred into the confines of Kile and Cantire, spoi|ling and wasting those countries, and brought from thence a great number of captiues. With which in|iurie Caratake being not a little kindled, he assem|bled a mightie armie, wherein he had at the least 40 thousand men, what of his owne subiects and other such as came to his aid. For after he was entred in|to Pictland, there came vnto him out of all parties no small number, of such as desired either to be re|uenged on the Romans, either else to loose life and libertie both at once, for the tast of bondage was so bitter vnto all the inhabitants of Albion in this sea|son, that they in maner were wholie conspired togi|ther to remooue that yoke of thraldome from their shoulders which so painefullie pinched them.