Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Brytains (who as is ſayd refuſed to fight in the beginning of the battell) yeelded thẽſelues vnto Carantius,The Brytains yeelde them|ſelues vnto Ca|rantius. & ſware to be his true liege mẽ & ſubiects. In like manner Carantius appointed al ſuch of the nobilitie as were betwixt .xx. yeres and .lx. to remaine with him in hoſtage: but the ſpoyle of the field he diuided amongſt his people equally, ſo that aſwel the Scottiſh men & Picts, as alſo his owne ſouldiers held thẽ well content EEBO page image 82 and ſatiſfied therewith. After this victory Ca|rantius cauſed himſelf to be proclaymed king of Brytaine,Carantius or Carautius, as Eutropius na|meth him, v|ſurpeth the kingdome of Brytaine. vſurping the gouernment therof who|ly to himſelf, and retayning .2000. of the Scots and Pictes, to attend vpon the ſauegard of his perſon, ſent the reſidue home laden with riches of the enimies ſpoyle. Hee ſent alſo with them his ambaſſadours, to render thankes vnto bothe the kings for theyr ayd in this ſo proſperous a victo|rie,Carantius ha|uing got the victory, deui|deth the gaine in aſsigning to his cõfederates their due por|cions. aſſigning vnto them as a portion of the con|queſt, the countreys of Weſtmerland and Cum|berland, with all that region whiche lay betwixt Adrians walle, and the citie of Yorke, to enioy as their owne proper patrimonie for euermore. Finally the ſayde Carantius was ſlayne by his companion Alectus, as in the Engliſh hiſtorie ye may finde more at large.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this Crathlynt king of the Scots deli|uered frõ troubles againſt the Romains, deuiſed ſundry good ordinances for the quiet ſtate of the Scottiſh cõmon wealth, cauſing the peace to be diligently obſerued betwixt him and the Pictes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Alſo in his dayes the perſecution of the Chriſtians chaũced,The perſecutiõ of the Chri|ſtians by Dio|cletian. which the Emperour Dio|cletian cõmaũded to be executed in moſt furious wiſe, ſo that there were fewe partes of the world (where any Chriſtians were knowẽ to inhabite) that taſted not of that his cruell ordinaunce and ſcourge in that behalf. In Brytaine alſo, as wel as in other places, there was no ſmall quantitie of innocent bloud ſhed, with moſte vnmercifull murder committed, to the greate triumphe of Chriſtes croſſe, that glorious enſigne of our re|ligion.