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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scottiſh men being thus driuen backe, Agricola repaired ſuche caſtels and fortreſſes as they had ouerthrowen and heaten downe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeare following, being the fifth after the firſt comming of Agricola into Brytaine, he cauſed his ſhippes to be brought about from the Iſle of Wight into the water of Lochfine in Ar|gite,The romayne nauie arriueth in the water of Lochfin. thereby to put his enimies in vtter diſpayre of eſcaping his handes eyther by water or lande: And therevpon paſſing ouer the riuer of Clyde with his armie, and finding his nauie there, hee ſet vpon the countrey of Lennox,Agricola inua|deth Lennox. in purpoſe to ſubdue the ſame. But after he had made ſundrie ſkyrmiſhes with the inhabitauntes, hee was cer|tified by letters from the gouernour of Came|lone, that the Pictes were ready to rebell, by rea|ſon whereof he left off this enterprice againſt the Scottes,Agricola re|turneth into Pict lande, to appeaſe a re|bellion of the people there. and drew hacke into Picte lande, lea|uing a parte of his armie to keepe poſſeſſion of the water of Clyde till his returne againe into thoſe parties.

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