Compare 1587 edition: 1 This ayde being put in a readineſſe, and the ſhippes rigged and decked as was requiſite for ſuch an enterpriſe, they tooke the ſeas, and lan|ding in Cantyre,The Scottes and Iriſhmen lande in Cantyre. chaunced to meete with Heir|dorſtane brother to Heirguſt king of the Pictes, accompanied with a great number of Picts and Brytaynes aſſembled to defende the Countrey,The Pictes en|counter with the Scots and Iriſh men, and are diſcõfited. but being ſharpely aſſayled of the Scottes and Iriſh men they were quickely put to flight, and ſuch as were ouertaken dyed on the ſworde, to the great terrour of all the newe inhabitants that were planted in thoſe parties.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Victorie thus atchieued, there were that gaue counſell not to attempt fortune ouer fame, but to take ſuche booties of goodes and priſoners as they had got in the Countrey, and to returne therewith into Irelande. Other were of a con|trarie opinion, ſuppoſing it beſt to followe the victorie, and eyther to recouer againe theyr aun|cient ſeates, or elſe to die in the valiaunt attempt thereof. Which aduice was followed, as the beſt, though it proued otherwiſe: for before they could come to any concluſion of that enterpriſe, the Romaines, Pictes, and Brytaynes gathered themſelues togither,The Scots and Iriſh men are ouerthrowne. & gaue battail again to that Scottiſhe and Iriſhe companie, wherein they o|uerthrewe them, to theyr vtter ruyne and de|ſtruction.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The newes of this infortunate encounter be|ing brought into Irelande, put the king and his Nobles there in ſuch feare of the Romaines,The king of Irelande ſee|keth for peace. that they thought it beſt w^t al ſpeed to ſend Ambaſſa|dors vnto Maximus to ſew vnto him for peace. They that were ſent at the firſt were ſore blamed and checked by Maximus, for that they had ay|ded the Scottiſhe men in the laſt inuaſion made into Albion: but at length accepting their excuſe,Maximus graf|teth peace to the Iriſh men. hee graunted a peace vpon certaine conditions, wherof the moſt principall article was, that in no wyſe they ſhould receyue, ayd, or ſuccour any enimie to the Romain empire.Maximus ſee|keth by his bounteous li|beralitie to win the peo|ples fauour. This Maximus hauing got a quiet peace on ech ſide, vſed al mea|nes poſſible howe to procure the loue of his ſoul|diers and men of warre, ſhewing hym ſelfe not only gentle, curteous and meeke towardes them, but alſo ſo liberall and free, that his bounteous giftes paſſed all vnderſtanding: in ſo muche that as is reported by writers, he beſtowed in one day neare hande as much in rewardes, as the reuenue of Brytayne yeelded to the Empyre in a whole yeare.