Compare 1587 edition: 1 He helde the dominion of the Empyre being thus preferred to the Imperial eſtate,Maximus ru|led the eſtate of Brytaine xvii. yeares. the ſpace of fiue yeares. All the countreyes and people of Al|bion beeing at his cõmaundement without con|tradiction: which had not chanced vnto any one mã before his time, ſith y^e Ile was firſt inhabited.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 At length deſirous of more Empire, he paſſed ouer into France with a mightye armie, in pur|poſe to ſubdue al France and Italie, with ſuch o|ther countries as were obedient vnto Gratian as then Emperor of Rome.The Emperor Gratian is ſlain by Maximus. But how proſperouſly he ſpedde in the beginning, and how at length he was ſlain at Aquileia in Italy, ye ſhal find in y^e hiſtorie of England a great deale more at large.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 By reaſon of ſuch trouble in the eſtate of the Romaine Empyre, Octauius the ſonne of Octauius late king of the Brytaynes, the which (as before is ſayde) fledde into the Iſle of Man, and after departing from thence, got ouer into Fraunce, returned nowe into Brytayne, and did ſo much there, that the Brytains receyued him to theyr king: but ſhortly after he was conſtrayned to agree with the Romaine Emperour Theo|doſius, ſo that the Brytaynes ſhoulde pay theyr woonted tribute, and liue vnder ſuche lawes as by the Emperor ſhould be to them preſcribed. In al other reſpects, Octauius ſhoulde be reputed du|ring his life for king. Immediately herevpon two Lieutenãts were ſent from Theodoſius, of whõ the one named Martius ſoiourned at London, and the other called Victorine, at Yorke. And with al expedition they began to put the Romain lawes in practiſe, aboliſhing the olde Brytiſhe lawes, to the greate offence of many that coulde not well brooke ſtraunge ordinances. Namely the Pictes repyned ſore thereat, and vſed moſt an ende their owne lawes and conſtitutions, great|ly to the contempt of the Romaine eſtate.