Compare 1587 edition: 1 Victorine pre|pareth an ar|my to goe a|gainſt the Scottes.But nowe to returne where wee left. After that Victorine the Romain legate was aduerti|ſed of all the foreremembred doings of the Scot|tiſhmen and Pictes, he cauſed an armie to be le|uied with all ſpeede, and haſted forth with the ſame vnto Yorke,Victorine ſee|keth to per|ſuade the Picts from taking part with the Scottes. where beeing arriued, hee at|tempted by an Heralde at armes to perſwade the Pictes to forſake their confederacie lately con|cluded with the Scots: but perceyuing he could not bring it to paſſe, he determined to purſue both thoſe nations with open warre: and ſo therevpon ſetting forward, he paſſed forth till he came neare vnto Camelon,Victorine en|campeth neare vnto Camelon with .50000. men. wher he encãped with his whole armie, hauing therein (as the report went) about fiftie thouſand perſons at the leaſt.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 Ferguſe being aduertiſed hereof, hauing in like maner alreadie aſſembled a mightie huge hoſte,Ferguſe paſ|ſeth the Forth. both of Scottiſhmen and Pictes, came therwith ouer the Forth, and marched forth with all ſpeed in the night ſeaſon,Ferguſe pur|poſeth to aſ|ſayle his eni|mies in the dawning of the day. in purpoſe to haue ſet on hys enimies verye early in the dawning of the next morning: but Victorine hauing knowledge ther|of, commaunded his men to be arraunged and ſet in order of battaile by the third watch of the ſame night, ſo that being readie to receyue the Scottes vpon their firſt approch, there was fought a right ſore and cruell battaile, with ſuch ſlaughter on both partes,The riuer of Carron rũneth with bloud. that the ryuer of Carron (neare vnto which their battailes ioyned) was well neare fil|led with dead bodies, and the water thereof ſo chaunged into a ruddie hewe, that it ſeemed as though it had runne altogither with bloud. In the ende (whileſt as yet it was doubtfull to whe|ther ſide the victorie would encline) there came ſuch a ſodaine ſhower of raine,The battaile ſeuered by reaſon of a tempeſt. mixed with ſuche great abundance of hayleſtones, that neyther part was able to haue ſight of other, ſo that by reaſon of the violent rage of that huge ſtorme and tempeſt, eyther ſide was fayne to withdraw from the other.