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Compare 1587 edition: 1 At his comming into Picte lande, he appeaſed the rebelles with ſmall a do, puniſhing the chiefe authours according to their demerites. This done,He returneth into Clyde. he returned vnto the water of Clyde, lying at that winter beyond the ſame, taking order for the gouernment of thoſe parties, in due obedience of the Romaine Empyre.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The sommer following he appointed his nauie to search alongst the coast all the hauens and creekes of Argyle, and of the Ilandes neare to the same. Agricola pur|ſueth his en|terpriſe a|gainſt the Scones. Whilest he by land passing ouer the water of Leuine, went about to co(n)quere townes and castels, though halfe discouraged at the first by reason of the rough wayes, strayte passages, high mountaynes, craggy rockes, thicke woodes, deepe marrishes, fennes and mosses, with the great riuers, whiche with his armie hee muste needes passe, if he minded to attayne his purpose: but the olde soldiers beyng enured with paynes and trauayle, ouercame all these difficulties by the wise conduct of theyr woorthie Generall and other the Captaynes, and so inuading the countrey tooke Townes and Castels, of the whiche some they beate downe and rased, and some they fortified, and stuffed with garrisons of men of warre.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 About the ſame time the commaundement of king Galdie and other the [...] as of Scot|land,All the Scottes aſſemble. all the able men of Cantyre, Lorne, Mur|reyland, Lugemarth, alſo thoſe of the weſterne Iſles, and of all other parties bringing to the Scottiſh, dominions, were appointed [...] aſſemble and come togither in Atholl, at a place not paſ|ſing fiue miles diſtant from the caſtell of Cali|done now cleped Dunkeld, there to abide the cõ|ming of Karanath King of the Pictes, to the end that ioyning togither in one armie, they might worke ſome hight exploit. But he hauing aſſem|bled .xv. thouſand of his mẽ of war as he mar|ched alongſt by the mountaine of Gra [...]hene, in times pact cleped Mens Gr [...]mpius, there chaun|ced a mutinie amongſt his people ſo that fal|ling togither by the eares,Karanach king of the Pictes ſlaine by miſ|fortune of one of his owne ſublectes. Karanach himſelfe comming amongſt them vnarmed as hee was, to parte the fray, was ſlayne preſently at in|wares, by one that knewe not what hee was. By reaſon of whiche miſchaunce that iourney was broken, for the Pictes being vtterly ama|zed and diſcomforted her with skaled and depar|ted in ſunder.

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