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You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 670 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 83)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Suche an immoderate luſte of inlarging his dominion enflamed the harte of Octauius,Octauius co|ueteth to en|large his do|minion. that neither regard of his othe, nor remẽbrance of be|nefites receyued, might ſtay him from ſeeking to wrong them, whoſe ayde had reſtored him vnto his former eſtate and dignitie, as before we haue reherſed. For herevpon there were .x.M. men of EEBO page image 84 warre ſent into Weſtmerlande,The Brytains inuade Weſt|merland. to the intent to conquere the ſame out of the Scottiſhe mens handes: but beyng encountred with a power of Scottiſh men & Pictes, they were ſharply repul|ſed and quickly put to flight. About the ſame time alſo,

Traherus re|turneth into Brytaine.

Octauius is vanquiſhed by Traherus.

Traherus returned out of Fraunce with .ij. legiõs of Romains, and .xx.M. of other aydes. And giuing battel vnto Octauius, he vã|quiſhed his armie, & conſtrayned him for his re|fuge to flee vnto the mouth of Humber, where he got certaine veſſels & ſayled into Norway, there to ſaue his life, bicauſe that Scotland was now no ſure refuge for him: And thus was Traherus againe in poſſeſſion of Brytaine, as lieutenant to Conſtantine the Emperour: but ſhortly after he was by certaine conſpiratours in fauour of Octauius murthered,Traherus by a conſpiracie is murthered. and then Octauius retur|ned againe: as in the Engliſh chronicle is men|cioned more at large.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Octauius is re|conciled with Fincomark.Immediatly vpon his returne, he reconciled himſelf with Fincomark the Scottiſh king, and was contented that he ſhould quietly enioy the coũtreys of Weſtmerland & Cumberland, with ſuch other territories as Carantius had graũted in former time vnto Crathlynt.Octauius en|treth into a|mitie with the Pictiſh king. He likewiſe ſent vnto the king of the Pictes, & concluded a friend|ſhip with him, to the intent he might haue ayde frõ him alſo, if it chaũced the Romains eftſoones to inuade his countrey, as ſhortly after they did, not [...]eaſing til they had ſo aweried him with cõ|tinual warres, that in the end to be at reſt (as his age & other neceſſities then required) he deliuered into theyr handes,Octauius be|commeth tri|butarie vnto the Romaine Emperour. certaine caſtels & fortreſſes, & alſo became tributarie to the Emperour on con|dition he might vſe the office and name of a king all the reſidue of his dayes. Theſe things being thus quieted in Albion, ye Romains, Brytains, Scottiſh men and Pictes,17. of Conſtans & Conſtantius Emperours. H. B. continued in friendly peace without any notable trouble, till the .ix. yeare of the raigne of Valentinian Emperour of Rome: & firſt of Damaſus the Pope. In ye which yeare Fincomark king of Scottes departed this life,

Fincomark de|ceaſſed.

358. H. B.

after he had gouerned the eſtate aboue .xlvij. yeares. This was in ye yeare of our redẽptiõ. [...]72.

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Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Fincomark, left behind him .ij. ſonnes, the one named Eugenius,Eugenius & E|thodius ſonnes to Fincomark. being as then aboute xviij. yeares of age, the other hight Ethodius, & was yonger thã his brother by one yeare, ſo that neyther of them might ſucceede theyr father by reaſon they were not of yeares ſufficient to rule, according to the auncient ordinance.

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