Compare 1587 edition: 1 The thirde winter being thus ſpent, and the next ſommer commen vpon, Agricola inuaded ſuche countreys as were yet vndiſcouered by the Romains,Kalẽdar wood Agricola com|meth vnto Sterling. entring by the nether ſide of Cali|done wood, euen vnto the dolorous mountaine, whiche afterwardes by the Scottes was cleped Sterling. It was called the dolorous mountain for that in the night ſeaſon, there was heard right lamentable noyſe and cries as though the ſame had bene of ſome creatures that had bewayled theyr miſerable caſes:Illuſion of ſpi|rites. whiche vndoubtedly was the craftie illuſions of wicked ſprytes, to keepe mens mindes ſtill oppreſſed in blinde errours and ſuperſtitious fantaſies.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Agricola conſidering the naturall ſtrength of this mountaine with the ſite of an olde ruinous caſtel that ſtood thereon,Agrie [...]la buil|ded the caſtel of Sterling with the bridge. he cauſed the ſame with all diligence to be repaired, & a bridge to be made ouer the Forth there, by the which he paſſed with his whole armie ouer into Fyfe, and the day af|ter hearing that the king of the Picts was with|drawen into a caſtell thereby, ſtanding vpon an high mountaine cleeped Beenart,Moũt Bee [...]. he enuironned the ſame with a ſtrong ſiege, how be it his hoped pray was not as then within it, for Karanach king of the Picts, enformed of the Romains ap|proche, gotte him foorth abrode into the fieldes,Karanach a|ſayleth Ster|ling bride, which the Ro|mains defen|ded. and aſſembling his power purpoſed by might, to haue brokẽ the bridge which Agricola had made ouer the Forth at Sterling, but being repulſed by ſuche as were ſet there to defende the ſame, in his returne from thence hee was encountred by Agricola himſelfe, who being certified of this at|tempt of his enimies, had leuied his ſiege & was comming towardes them, ſo that both the hoſtes meeting togither in the fieldes, there was fought a ſore battayle betwixt them, though in the ende the Pictes were diſcomfited,Karanath in eftſoone [...] cha|ſed and their king the foreſayde Karanath chaſed vnto the riuer of Tay, where he got a boate, and eſcaped to the furtherſide of that water.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 By reaſon of this ouerthrowe, Agricola brought in ſubiection thoſe countreys, whiche lie betweene the waters of Forth and Tay,Fyfe with o|ther countreys brought into subiections of the Romi [...]e [...] as Fyfe, Fothryke, and Emedalle, and ſoiourning there all the winter following, he buylte ſundrie fortreſſes in places moſt conuenient for the [...]ee|ping of the inhabitaunts in theyr co [...]enaunted obedience, after his departure from amongeſt them.