Compare 1587 edition: 1 Veſpaſian herevpon departing from Rome,Veſpaſian commeth in|to Brytayne. came into Fraunce, and encreaſing his legions, with a ſupplie of ſuch ſoldiers as he found there, paſſed ouer into this our Brytaine, where con|trarie to the report which he had heard afore hys comming he founde euery fortreſſe ſo wel furni|ſhed after y^e warlik order of the Romaine vſage, and moreouer all ſuche companies of menne EEBO page image 35 of warre as kept the field ſo well appoynted and ordered, that he coulde not but much prayſe the greate diligence and politike gouernment of Planctius.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Nowe when Veſpaſian had a little refreſhed his men, and taken order howe to proceede in the reducing of the Brytaynes to theyr former obe|dience, he ſet forwarde towarde Aruiragus and other the enimies,The Brytayns gather an armie. whome he vnderſtoode as then to be at Yorke making their aſſemble, not gene|rally of all that were able to beare a Clubbe, as they did the yeare before, but out of all parties a choſen number of pyked men were ſent for, as out of Deuonſhire and Cornewal there came ſix thouſande: forth of Wales and the marches xij. thouſande,I [...]ni. and the lyke number forth of Kendal, Weſtmerlande, and Cumberlande. Out of Ox|fordſhire and other the partyes of Brytayne ſub|iect vnto Aruiragus, there came a .xxxv. thouſãd. Al which numbers aſſembled neare vnto Yorke, euery man bringing hys prouiſion with him to ſerue him for two Monethes ſpace.The Scots and Pictes come to ayde the Brytaynes. Illythara or Tharan king of the Pictes. Vnto the ſame place came alſo Caratake with .xxx. thou|ſande Scottiſhe men: and Illythara otherwyſe called Tharan, king of the Pictes, with almoſte as many of his ſubiects.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Veſpaſian being certified ſtill from tyme to tyme of all the doings of hys enimies, haſted with all ſpeede towardes them. And by the lea|ding of truſte guydes comming to the place where they were encamped within a Matriſhe grounde not paſſing .xij. myles from Yorke,Veſpaſian aſ|ſayleth the Brytaynes in their campe. h [...] fiercely vpon a ſodaine ſetteth vpon them wyth|in their campe ere they thought that he had beene neare them. But yet notwythſtanding they manfully ſtoode to their defence: inſomuch, that thoſe in the right wing of the Romaines armie, were lyke to haue beene diſtreſſed, if Veſpaſian perceyuing the daunger, had not ſent a Legion to their ayde in tyme, wherby the battayle was newly in that part reſtored.