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(whilest as yet it was doubtfull to The battell seuered by reason of a [...], whether side the victorie would incline) there came such a sudden shower of raine, mixed
with such great abundance of haslestones, that neither part was a|ble to haue sight of other, so that by
reason of the vio|lent rage of that huge storme and tempest, either side
was saine to withdraw from the other. There were slaine in this battell such great numbers of men, as well
on the one side as the other, that they had small lust to ioine in battell againe for certeine yéeres
af|ter. For the Roman lieutenant vnderstanding what The lieute|nant furni|shing diuerse
holds, retur|neth into kent. losse of people he had susteined, without attempting anie further
exploit, appointed certeine of his com|panies to lie in garrison within sundrie fortresses in Pictland,
& with the residue he returned into Kent. In like sort the Scots with their confederates the
Picts, perceiuing themselues not able as then to The
Scots & Picts break|vp their campe. make anie further attempt against their enimies, brake
vp their armie, and deuised onelie how they might defend that which they had alreadie in posses|sion.
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as the Pictish nation was increa|sed vnto a greater multitude of people, than those countries which they
then held were able to find with sufficient sustenance (considering what a great portion of their ancient
seates the Britains and Ro|mans kept from them) it was agréed by the Scots
that they should inioy the countrie of Athole, with other lands bordering néere vnto the same, lieng without
the compasse of the mounteine of Granze|ben. Athole assig|ned to the Picts. The
Picts then being placed in Athole, increa|sed there woonderfullie, and builded manie faire ca|stels and
towers in those parties, to the great beau|tifieng of that countrie. In which meane while, Uic|torine the
Romane lieutenant commanded the Bri|tains The Bri|tains by the appointment of Uictorine
make a wall. to make hast with the wall (whereof ye haue heard)
made of turfe, and susteined with certeine posts of timber passing ouerthwart the borders be|twixt them and
their enimies, begining (as ye haue heard) at Abercorne, and so stretching foorth by Glas|co, and
Kirkpatrike, euen vnto Aldcluch, now Dun|briton, 80 miles more northward than the other wall, which the
emperor Adrian caused (as is said) to be made.
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The Scotish men & Picts interrupt the making of that wall. of a noble man
called Graime, they set vpon the Britains, as they were busie in working about the same, and slue not onelie
a great number of la|bourers and souldiers, which were set to labour and defend the worke, but also entering
into the British borders, fetched from thence a great bootie of cattell and other riches, which they found
dispersed abroad in the countrie. This Graime (who as I said was chiefe Graime, other
wise called Graham, and his linage. in this enterprise) was brother vnto the Scotish quéene, the
wife of king Ferguse. He was borne in Denmarke (as some hold opinion) in
the time of the Scotishmens banishment, and had a Scotishman to his father descended of a noble house, and a
Da|nish ladie to his mother. He himselfe also maried a noble woman of that nation, and had by hir a
daugh|ter, whome Ferguse by the persuasion of the king of Ferguse ma|ried a daugh|ter of
Graime Denmarke tooke to wife, and had issue by hir (afore his comming into Scotland) thrée
sonnes, Euge|nius, Dongarus, and Constantius, of whome here|after in their place mention shall be made, as
occa|sion serueth. Other there be, that affirme how this Diuersitie of opinions tou|ching
the ori|ginall begin|ning of the Graimes. Graime was a Britaine borne, & that through hate
which he bare towards the Romans for their cruell gouernement, he fled foorth of his natiue countrie, and
continued euer after amongst the Scots, as first in Denmarke, and afterwards in Albion, euer rea|die to doo
what displeasures he could deuise against the Romans & other their friends or subiects. Of this
Graime those Scots, which vnto this day beare that surname, are said to be descended.