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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Galde promi|ſeth to ioyne in league with the Pictes a|gainſt the Ro|mains. Galde vpon this requeſt and mocions of the Picts gladly conſented to ioyne his power with theirs, in common defence of bothe the realmes (againſt ſuch common eninuies as the Romains were eſteemed) hauing herevnto the aſſent of all his peeres and chiefeſt counſellours.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus whileſt the kings of the Scottes and Pictes were concluding a league togither for de|fence of themſelues and theyr countreys, certaine Scottes entred into the confines of Kyle, Car|rike and Coningham,The Scots ſlea the Romaine ſouldiers, ly|ing in certaine garriſons. & wanne diuers fortreſſes, wherein certain garriſons of Romaine ſouldiers foiourned, whom they ſlewe downe right with|out al mercie, ſpoyling the whole countrey.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Agricola hauing knowledge hereof, wente ſtreight waies thither with a power, and purſu|ing them that had done thoſe iniuries, ſome hee tooke amongſt the hilles and mountaynes, whi|ther they were fledde,

The riuer of Clyde, other|wiſe called Cl [...]de.

Agricola re|pulſing the Scottes, could not yet winne the caſtell of Dunbreton, aunciently called Awld|luch, or Al|cluth.

and the reſidue hee chaſed beyond the riuer of Clyde, but the caſtel of Dun|bryton hee coulde not by any meanes obtaynes though he aſſayed to winne it euen to the vtter|moſt of his power. It was called in thoſe dayes Alcluth that is to meane: all ſtone.

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