Compare 1587 edition: 1 The cauſe why hee burdened them in ſuche ſort was (as hee ſayde) to teache them to knowe themſelues. For they were become ſo loftie ſithe the departure of the Scottiſhmen out of the Ile, that if they were not reſtrayned in time by au|thoritie of the Romaine puiſſaunce, the whole EEBO page image 94 Britiſh nation were like to be ſhortly diſquieted, by theyr wilfull meanes and inſolent preſump|tions.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Neither was it thought ſufficient vnto Vic|torine to charge the Pictes in manner as is be|fore ſpecified,The Pictes are commaunded to dwell be|yonde the wa|ter of Forth. but to theyr further greeuaunce hee deuiſed an other way, whereby to bring them in the ende vnto vtter deſtruction, whiche was this: he conſtrayned them togither with theyr wyues, children, and whole familyes, to re|moue beyonde the water of Forth, and to leaue all the Countreys on this ſyde the ſame water as well thoſe whiche they aunciently had in|habited, as the other which of late apperteyned vnto the Scottes, and were aſſigned vnto them by Maximus to poſſeſſe, after that the Scottes were expelled.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 All whiche Countreys thus by the Pictes nowe left voyde, were appoynted by Victorine vnto the Brytaynes, as ſubiectes to the Em|pyre, to be inhabited. And for a perfite diui|ſion betwixte the Pictes,A wall made to diuide the Brytains from the Pictes. and the ſame Bry|taynes, hee commaunded a Wall to bee made, and a trench to be caſt alongſt by the ſame, from Abyrcorne, throughe the territorie of Glaſkow vnto Alcluthe, or Auldcluch, now clalled Dun|breton, ſo running from the Eaſt Sea vnto the Weſt. Hereto proclamation was made, that if any of the Pictiſhe nation did enterpriſe to paſſe this Wall,The Picts for|biddẽ to paſſe ouer beyonde that wall. and to enter into the Brytiſhe con|fines withoute licence of the Magiſtrates, hee ſhould die for it.