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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe conditions beeing certyfied to the Romaynes by theyr Oratours, were gladly ac|cepted, ſith they ſawe no better meane, howe to delyuer themſelues out of that preſent daunger. And ſo delyuering ſufficient Hoſtages for per|fourmaunce of all the Articles of agreement,The Romains depart out of Galloway. they departed without protracting time, mar|ching Southwardes to come into Kent, where Marius king of the ſouth Brytaynes ſoiourned as then.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Agricola as the Scottiſhe Chronicles re|port, left at his departure towardes Rome, to the number of .lx. thouſande men in the Romain armie what of one and other, but nowe at theyr departure out of Galloway, there remayned vn|neath .xx. thouſande, the reſidue being diſpatched by one meane or other.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 By this concluſion of peace then,The Romains giue vp all their holdes and fortreſſes which they kept within the Scottiſhe or Pictiſh do|minions. the Scottes and Pictes got againe the whole poſſeſſion of all ſuche Countreyes as the Romaines had before wonne and takẽ away from them, as the Mers, Louthian, the Marches about Barwike, Fyffe, and Angus, wyth Kyle, Cantyr, Coningham, and Galloway: all the Romaine gariſons de|parting oute of the fortreſſes, and leauing the ſame vp vnto the former owners.

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