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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Now the Scottes and Pictes hauing know|ledge of this miſliking in the Brytayns towards the Romaine Lieutenant,The Scottes and Pictes re|nue the warre againſt the Romaines. thought it a time con|uenient for them alſo to be doing, to the ende they might reuenge their former iniuries: and here|vpon leuying an armie, they came to the oft re|mẽbred wall, & ouerthrowing the ſame in diuerſe places they entred into the Britiſh cõfines with great ſpoyle and crueltie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Trebellius being hereof informed, haſted forth with all the power he coulde make, to reſiſt their inuaſions: but finding the enimies readye in the field, and encountring them ſooner than he looked for,Trebellius fighteth with his enimies, is forſaken of his owne men, and chaſed out of the fielde. he was euen vpon the firſt ioyning abãdoned of the moſt part of his whole armie, whiche con|ſiſted of Britains & Frenchmẽ, thẽ called Gauls, ſo that the reſidue beeing beaten downe, he was glad to ſaue himſelfe as well as he might be ſet|ting the ſpurs to his horſe, and galloping away.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this,Weſtmerland and Kendall ſpoyled by the Scottiſh men and Pictes. gathering togither his people again as they fled from the diſcomfiture he retired back with them vnto Yorke, hauing loſt in his bicke|ring a great number of his beſt ſoldiers, and men of warre: for the Scottes and Pictes miſſing no ſmall number of their friends in that battaile, wer not ſatiſfied with thoſe whom they had likewyſe ſlain in the fight, but alſo fel vpon their priſoners which they had taken, and ſlue them alſo in re|uenge of their fellowes whom they had loſt.

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