Compare 1587 edition: 1 When Adrian vnderſtood theſe newes,Adriã the Em|perour prepa|reth to go in|to Brytayne. he pur|poſed forthwith to goe himſelfe into Brytayne, cauſing therefore an armie to be leuied, he paſſed forth with the ſame into Fraunce, then called Gallia, and comming to Callice, he tranſported ouer into Brytayne,Adrian tranſ|porteth into Brytayne. where hee learned howe the Scottes and Pictes were neuer more buſie than at this preſent, hauing of late waſted and ſpoyled the Countrey euen to the Riuer of Tine.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Herewith Adrian being ſore offended, ioyned the power which he had brought with him from Rome,Adrian com|meth to York. with the other which he had cauſed to be rayſed in Fraunce and Brytayne. This done, he remoued to Yorke, where ſoiourning certaine dayes to refreſh his people, he afterwardes drewe towardes the borders, and comming to the riuer of Tine, he paſſed ouer the ſame.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The fourth day after,He paſſeth o|uer the riuer of Tine. he came into a Coun|trey wherein was left no kinde of earthly thing ſeruing to mans vſe, and ſo paſſing forwarde a day or two, he found neither corn,Adrian findeth nothing a|brode in the countrey of his enimies. nor other pro|uiſion of vittaile, nor any kind of liuing creature, all the people being fled into the mountaines and marriſh groundes, where no man might come vnto them, as cõmonly in caſe of extreme daun|ger they were accuſtomed to lie abroade in the ſame without houſe or any couerture ouer theyr heades.What maner of people he had to doe with. Howbeit for all that he gaue not ouer to purſue them, but finding them out where they lurked in the hilles and woods, he grieuouſly af|flicted them, and that in ſundrie maner. In the ende eſpying the barrenneſſe of the ſoyle, rude|neſſe of the people, and that there was no hope left to come by ſufficient prouiſion for the main|tenance of his armie, be determined not to ſpend any longer time in ſuche a vaine and fruitleſſe trauaile, and therfore returned vnto Tine, where to reſtraine the Scottes and Pictes from inua|ding ſuch of the Brytaynes as were ſubiect to the Romaine Empyre,Adrian begin|neth to make a wall for ſafe|garde of the Britaynes a|gainſt the Picts & Scots. he cauſed a great trench to be caſt ouerthwart the lande, from the mouth of Tine to the ryuer of Eſke, and a wall to bee made on the inner ſyde of the ſame, of turfe and ſoddes.