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Compare 1587 edition: 1 But nowe to our purpoſe. Immediately vp|pon the comming of Oſtorius into Brytayne, EEBO page image 39 the people of the weſt Countreys rebelled,The Brytayns yet eftſoones rebell. pro|curing the Northren men with the Scottes of Galloway, and all the Pictes to doe ſhe like.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Brytayns require ayde of Caratake.They ſent alſo vnto Caratake, requyring him in this common quarell agaynſt the Romaines to put to his helping hande for recouerie of the auncient libertie of the whole lande of Albion, conſidering it was like they ſhoulde matche well ynough with this new Romain captaine Oſto|rius Scapula, that vnderſtoode little of the ma|ners and vſages of the Brytaynes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But this notwithſtanding, Oſtorius beeing enformed of all theſe practiſes, and remembring what furtheraunce it were for a captaine [...] begynning to win a name by ſome prayſe wor|thy enterpriſe,The Brytayns of the weſt part are chaſed. he made firſt towards the weſtern Brytaynes, whome he thought to ſurpriſe ere they ſhoulde aſſemble with the other rebels, and ſo meeting with them, he chaſed and toke a great number of them as they fled here and there, out of all order.

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