Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Pertinax comming into Brytain, ac|cording to the Emperours appoyntment, tooke vpon him the office. And firſt ſetting a ſtaye a|mongſt the Brytaines, by right prudent and wel aduiſed gouernmẽt, he afterwards made a iour|ney agaynſt the Scottes and Pictes,Pertinax dri|ueth back both the Scots and Pictes. dryuing them by great ſlaughter beyonde Adrians wall, and ſo conſtreyned them to remaine within their own confines, purſuing them no further, for that hee was ſente for home vnto Rome, where the Emperour Commodus beeing murthered a|mongſt his owne men,Pertinax is choſen Em|perour. he was agaynſt his will preferred to his place.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 About the ſame time the ſtate of the Scottiſh common wealth was brought into great daun|ger through an other incident, as by reaſon of a rebellion ſtirred by them of the weſterne Iſles, who not quieted in their ſtomackes for the death of their friendes executed by Argadus (as before ye haue heard) aſſembled thẽſelues togither, and comming ouer into Argyle,Argyle infe|ſted by the Iland men. ſpoyled and harryed the countrey in piteous wiſe. For redreſſe where|of, Argadus was ſent thither againe with an ar|mie, and in the meane time Ethodius the king with a great hoſt of Scottiſhe men and Pictes lay in campe neare vnto Adrians wall, to reſiſt the inuaſion of the enimies on that ſyde, if happe|ly they ſhould attempt any new exployt againſt him in thoſe partes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 The Ilande men hearing of Argadus hys approche, drewe themſelues togither to receyue him by battaile, if he minded to offer it. In which meane time two thouſand Iriſhe men were lan|ded in that Countrey, in hope of ſpoyle,The Iriſh men lande in Argyle. and hea|ring that Argadus was comming that wayes forth to fight with his enimies, they layde them|ſelues ſecretely in ambuſhe by the way where hee ſhoulde paſſe, and when he was paſſed by them,The Iriſh men lay an ambuſh to entrappe Argadus. they brake forth vppon his rerewarde ſodainly, putting his people in ſuche diſorder by their vio|lent impreſſion at the firſt brunt, that though he did what in him laye to bring them againe into aray of battayle,Argadus is ſlaine. yet in the ende hee was there ſlaine with two thouſande of his armie, the re|ſidue eſcaping by flight out of the handes of their wilde and cruel enimies.