Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this, the warre continued ſtill betwixte them with often incurſions and ſkirmiſhes. At length the Pictes with ſuche other Brytains as were come vnto them out of the Iſle of Man & other parties,The Romains trayned forth into ambuſhes and ſo diſtreſ|ſed. encountred with the Romains in battayle, and vpon the firſte ioyning, of purpoſe gaue backe, trayning ſome of the Romains to purſue them vnto ſuche places, where they had layde theyr ambuſhes, and ſo compaſſing them about, ſlewe a great number of them, and chaſed the reſidue into the ſtraytes of the mountaynes, where they, were alſo ſurpryſed by ſuche of the Pictes as returned from the battayle.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Oſtorius vnderſtanding how the mater wẽt, withdrewe with the reſte of his people vnto his campe: and ſhortly after ſent a Purceuant vnto Rome, to enforme the Emperour in what ſtate things ſtoode in Brytaine, by reaſon of this re|bellion of the Pictes, who neyther by force nor gentle perſwaſions could be pacified.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Emperour determining to prouide re|medie therfore, ſent worde againe that he would not that the Pictes ſhoulde be e [...]tſoones receyued vpon theyr ſubmiſſion, if they were driuen to make [...]yte for pardon, but vtterly to be deſtroyed and exterminated. For the accompliſhment whereof, he appoynted two legions of ſuche men of warre as ſoiourned in Fraunce to paſſe ouer into Brytaine.