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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this,Iceni. he went agaynſt the people called Iceni, which (as ſome think)Oxfordſhire is aſſayled. Some take the Iceni to be the Norffolk men inhabited the Coun|trey nowe called Oxfordſhire, but others take them to bee Norffolke men, who beeing gathe|red togither, were gotten into a ſtrong place, en|cloſed about with a great ditche, as they vſe to [...] grounds, that no Horſemen ſhould [figure appears here on page 39] breake in vpon them: yet this notwithſtanding, Oſtorius aſſayled them within their ſtrength, and in the ende breaking downe the rampyre, with ſuche ayde as he had, burſt in at length a|mongſt them, ſleaing and taking the moſt part of them: for few or none eſcaped, they were ſo kept in on eche ſide. But of this battaile, and like|wiſe of other enterpriſes which Oſtorius and o|ther of the Romaine Lieutenants atchieued here in Brytayne, ye ſhal find more thereof in the hy|ſtorie of Englande according to the true report of the Romaine wryters, the which verily make no mention either of Scottes or Pictes tyll the yeare of our Lorde 320. at the ſooneſt. And as for the Silures and Brygantes remoued by Hector Boetius ſo farre Northwarde, it is eui|dently proued by Humfrey Lluyd and others, that they inhabited Countreys conteyned nowe within the lymyttes of Englande. The lyke ye haue to vnderſtande of the Ordouici where Ca|ratake gouerned as king, and not in Carri [...]ke, as to the well aduiſed Reader I doubt not but it may ſufficiently appeare, as well in the deſcrip|tion as Hyſtorie of Englande aforeſayde.

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