[1] But firſt there was a league concluded with newe articles of agreement betwixte the En|gliſhmen and Brytons,The Engliſh|men & Brytõs ioyned theyr powers with the Pictes. as yet inhabiting a|longſt the coaſtes of Cumberlande, by meanes [page 183] of whiche league bothe Brytons and Engliſh|men ioyned theyr powers togither, and in moſte ſpeedy and forcible wiſe paſſed the water of Tweede, firſt pitching theyr campe in the coun|trey of Mers. From whence immediatly kyng Oſbert (beyng appoynted as generall in that iourney) ſente an Herault vnto Donalde the Scottiſhe king,An Herault is ſent vnto Do|nald. commaunding him eyther to ſurrender vp vnto the Pictes all ſuche regions as the Scottes had taken from them, eyther els to looke to haue the Engliſhmen and Brytons no leſſe theyr enimies than the Pictes, whoſe cauſe they had taken vpon them to mayntaine and defende.