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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Voada hearing of hyr brothers approch with the king of Pictes and their armies, met them on the way accompanied with a greate number of the Nobles of Brytaine, and brought them to hyr campe with great ioy and triumphe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After taking aduiſe how to behaue themſelues in theyr enterpriſe, they thought it good to make haſte to fight with the Procuratour Catus, ere any new power of men of warre might come to his ayde foorth of Gallia nowe called Fraunce. Wherevpon marchyng towardes him, they met togither in the fielde,The Romaines are put to flight and o|uerthrowe [...]. where betwixte them wh [...]rs ſtriken a right fierce and cruel battayle: but in the ende the horſemen of the Romains, parte beyng firſt put to flight, the footemẽ were beaten downe on eache ſide:Catus was wounded. Catus himſelfe beyng wounded eſcaped very hardly by flight, and ſhortly after got him ouer into Fraunce.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scottes and Picts with other the Bry|taines hauing atchieued this victory, purſued their enimies frõ place to place, ſo that there died by the ſwoord,70000. Ro|mains ſlaine, and [...] Bryt [...]. what in the batayle and els where in the chaſe a .lxx. M. Romains & other ſtraun|gers which ſerued amongſt them, and of Scots, Pictes, and other Brytaynes, were ſlaine .xxx. thouſande.

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