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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Whyleſt the Pictes through theyr owne fault, are thus brought into moſte miſerable ſub|iection of the Romaines, the Scottiſhe men as is ſayde) beeing baniſhed the lande,The Scottes liue in other Countreys. lyue in o|ther Countreyes by ſhyfting oute the tyme ſo well as they myght, ſome continuing wyth theyr wyues and children, gotte a poore lyuing wyth theyr hande, as exercyſing ſome Sci|ence or occupation. Other there were that followed the warres, and ſerued vnder ſundrye woorthie Captaynes here and there as occaſion ſerued.