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You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 385 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 49)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The forenamed Karanath eſcaping out of that preſent daunger,Karanath fle|eth beyõd the Firth. got him beyonde the water of Firth, for the more ſuretie of his owne perſon.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 386 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 49)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Agricola hauing ſped thus in Pict lãd, mar|ched foorth againſt them of Annandall: who at the firſt, making reſiſtaunce for a time, at length were conſtreyned to giue backe, and ſo fledde to their owne houſes, where in the night following by their owne wiues they were murthered eche mothers ſonne: for ſo the women of that nation vſed to put away the ſhame of their huſbandes when they had at any time fled out of the fielde,The Scots of Annandale ſlaine by their wiues. from theyr enimies.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 387 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 49)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Agricola vnderſtanding that by winning him EEBO page image 50 ſame in the beginning, it ſhould be no ſmall fur|therance vnto him for the atchieuing of other en|terpriſes in time to come, determined to purſue his good fortune.

Here is a ma|nifeſt errour in the Scottiſh writers, taking Man for An|gleſey.

Agricola aſ|ſayleth the Iſle of Angleſey, and not Man as Hector Boe|tius miſtaketh it.

And thervpon prepared to ſub|due the Iſle of Man, but wanting veſſels to cõ|uey his armie ouer, he found meanes that ſuch as could ſwimme, and knew the ſhallow places of that coaſt, made ſhifte to paſſe the goulfe, and ſo got a land, to the great wonder and amazing of the inhabitants, who watched the ſea coaſtes, to reſiſt ſuche ſhippes as they looked for, to haue ar|riued vpon theyr ſhore: but nowe diſpayring to reſiſt ſuch kind of warriours as endaugered thẽ|ſelues to paſſe the ſeas in that maner of wiſe, they ſubmitted thẽſelues vnto Agricola.

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