Compare 1587 edition: 1 Finally whan the Romains were at point to haue got the vpper hand, they were ſodenly put in ſuche feare with the ſight of a number of huſ|bande men, who had got togither theyr cattell & were driuing the ſame away, that ſuppoſing they had bene ſome newe ſuccours comming to ayde theyr enimies,The Romains flee. they immediatly fled vpon the ſame, leauing the victorie to their aduerſa|ries: howbeit of the Scottes ſide were ſlayne (as theyr chronicles report .xv.M. men,The numbers ſlayne. and on the Romaine parte about .xvj. thouſand.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Traherus himſelfe eſcaped vnto Yorke, but hearing that Fincomark, and Octauius purſued after him, he forſooke that Citie & got him into places of more ſuretie, ſo that when the enimies came thither, the Citezins yeelded themſelues,Yorke is yeel|ded vnto Octa|uius. & receyued Octauius as their Prince, offering frõ thence foorth to be vnder his rule & gouernment.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 The newes of theſe atchieued victories being bruted throughout the realme, cauſed a greate number of the nobles to come in vnto Octauius,Octauius ob|tayneth the rule of Bry|taine. who receyued them moſte thankfully, and to cõ|clude wrought ſo by theyr ſupport, that he was ſhortly after reſtored to the gouernaunce of the whole realme, & eſtabliſhed therein according to his owne wiſhe. This done, Fincomark retur|ned into his countrey, aſwell himſelfe as other of his nobles & mẽ of warre, being highly rewarded for their paines & trauaile ſuſteyned in that iour|ney. There was alſo promiſe made and confir|med by ſolemne othe,Weſtmerlande aſsigned to the Scottiſh men. that the countrey of weſt|merlãd with ſuch other parties as were aſſigned vnto his predeceſſor king Crathlynt, by order of Carantius at the time of theyr ioyning togither in league againſt the Romains, ſhould for euer remayne vnto Fincomark, and to his ſucceſſors the Scottiſh kings without any clayme or title to be made to the ſame by any of the Brytains: but this promiſe was not long kept, for ſhortly after that Octauius had once chaſed all the Ro|maines foorth of the Brittiſh confines, and that Traherus was fled ouer into Fraũce,A councel kept at Yorke. there was a councell called at Yorke, where it was not on|ly ordeyned, that from thence forth there ſhould neuer any ſtraunger be ſuffred to raigne ouer the Brytaines, but alſo that the boundes of the realme ſhould be extended forth beyond the wall made (as before is recited) by the Emperour A|drian, euen vnto the old auncient bounds, and li|mites, expulſing foorth the inhabitants of for|raine nations.