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Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 66The Ilande people beeing thus appeaſed, the king returned into Albion, where as then lying at Enuerlochthee, a towne (as is ſayde) in Louchquhaber,The Romains inuade the Pictiſh & Scot+tiſh borders. worde came vnto him, yt the Ro|maines had broken downe the Wall buylded by the Emperour Adrian, and made a greate rode into the Scottiſhe and Pictiſhe borders, where meeting with the Inhabitantes aſſembled to|gyther in defence of theyr Countrey (after a ſore conflict) the victorie remayned with the Ro|maines: by reaſon wherof they led a great bootie of cattel and other goodes away with them to the places where they ſoiourned.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ethodius re|quyteth reſti|tution of his ſubiects goods taken away by the Romains.Ethodius beeing mooued herewyth, ſente foorthwyth an Heralde vnto Victorine the Romaine Lieutenant, requyring that his ſub|iectes myghte haue reſtitution of theyr goodes wrongfully taken from them, or elſe to looke for warres within .xv. dayes after.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Victorine anſwered herevnto, that the Scottes and Pictes had fyrſt begonne to breake downe the foreſayde Wall,Victorines anſwere to Ethodius re|queſt. and to buylde a Tower vppon the ſame, fortifying it wyth a number of menne of warre, who running day|lye into the Brytiſhe confines, fetched prayes thence from amongeſt the Romaine ſubiects, and thoughe hee had ſent dyuerſe tymes to the Scot|tiſhe and Pictiſhe Wardens for reſtitution, yet coulde hee neuer haue anye towardly anſwere, ſo that hee was conſtrayned to begynne the warre in manner and fourme as hee had done alreadie.

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