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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Wherevpon Victorine beeing enformed of theyr doings, rayſed a power, and made ſuche ſpeede towardes them, that hee was gotten ſo neare vnto the Citie of Camelon, ere they had a|ny knowledge of his approch,Durſtus is be|ſieged of the Romaines. that Durſtus with other of the Nobles, beeing as then within the ſame, could not haue ſpace to eſcape their wayes, but being forthwith beſieged within it, at length they were taken by force of aſſault, and the citie ſacked, to the great enryching of the Romaine armie, and vtter vndooing of the poore Inhabi|tauntes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Durſtus with other the chiefeſt priſoners were firſte had vnto London,Durſtus is brought pri|ſoner to Lon|don. and from thence conueyed to Rome, there to haue iudgement by decree of the Senate. The reſidue of the nobles that were taken there, ſuffered in the markette place at Camelon.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus was that tumult appeaſed,The Picts be|come tribu|taries. and the Picts commaunded to pay yearly vnto the Em|perours procurator the fourth parte of all theyr reuenues growing of theyr corne and cattell. Beſide this trybute hee charged them alſo wyth diuerſe baſe ſeruices, as to labor in mettal mines,They are put to their baſe ſeruices. to digge ſtones forth of the quarreys, and to make bricke to bee ſent into Brytaine, or into o|ther places whyther it pleaſed hym to com|maunde it.

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