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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scottiſh Chronicles make mention that it was begonne by Adrian,The romaine wryters doe confirme the ſame. but not finiſhed tyll the dayes of the Emperour Seuerus, who made an ende of it, and therefore the ſame Chronicles name it the wall of Septimius Seuerus.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 62Adrianus hauing thus diſpatched in the North partes of Brytayne, in hys returne vi|ſited Wales with the Marches of the ſame, ſet|ting an order amongeſt ſuch as had mooued a commotion agaynſt the Magiſtrates in thoſe partyes, the Authours whereof hee puniſhed ac|cording to their offences, and ſo then he came to London, whither at the ſame tyme a great num|ber of the Brytayne Nobilitie reſorted to doe hym honour,Adrian com|meth to Lon|don. according to theyr duties. And hee for hys parte ſhewed them ſuche friendlye entertaynment, that they coulde not wiſhe any better.