Compare 1587 edition: 1 To bee ſhorte, hee purged the whole realme of all ſuche robbers, theeues, and other the lyke offenders agaynſt the quiet peace of his ſubie|ctes, as were hugely increaſed by the licencious rule of his predeceſſour Dardane, and here|vnto hee was mightely ayded by the Mora|uians,The Morauians help to appre|hende theeues and offenders. who purſued ſuche offenders moſte ear|neſtly, and brought in vnto him no ſmall num|ber of them, euer as they caught them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 By this meanes was the ſtate of the com|mon wealth brought into better quiet, and the yeare next enſuing being the thirde of Galde his raygne, hee called a counſell at Dunſtafage, wherein hee labored muche for the abrogating of the wicked lawes inſtituted by king Ewyn,Galde laboreth to abrogate wicked lawes. as before is partely ſpecified: but hee coulde not obtaine more than that poore men from thence foorth ſhould haue their wiues free to themſelues without being abuſed from time to time indif|ferently by their landelordes as heretofore they had bene.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Whileſt he was thus buſied about the eſta|bliſhing of holſome orders and ſtatutes for the wealth of his ſubiectes,Petilius Cer [...]a|lis a Romaine captaine ſente by Veſpaſian into Brytaine. woorde was brought him that Petilius Cerialis a Romaine Cap|taine being ſente from Veſpaſian the Empe|rour to haue the gouernment of Brytaine, was landed with a puiſſant armie in the countrey, and minded ſhortly to inuade the borders of his realme, as Annandale and Galloway.