Compare 1587 edition: 1 When Sommer was come, he was coun|ſayled to haue eftſoones offered battayle vnto Victorine,Victorine in|uadeth Gal|loway. who as then was entered Galloway, & rather to trie the vttermoſt poynt of Fortunes chaunce agaynſt him, than to ſuſtaine ſuch diſ|pleaſures and iniuries at the Romaines handes, as by them were dayly done vnto him and hys people, but there were other that gaue other ad|uice, alledging how the daunger was great to ieopard againe in battaile with the Romaines,Ferguſe is diſ|ſwaded to fight with the Romanes. being mẽ of ſuch ſkill and practiſe in the feates of warres, conſidering what loſſe had chaunced in the two former battayles. Againe, there was great likelyhoode, that if he coulde be contented to forbeare for a tyme, and ſeeke to defende the bor|ders of his Countrey, ſo well as he might with|out giuing battayle,The Romaine Empyre inua|ded by barba|rous nations. it muſt needes come to paſſe that ſhortly the Romaine Empyre ſhoulde bee brought vnto ſuch ruynous decay, by reaſon of the multitude of enimies, whiche as then inua|ded the ſame on eche ſide, that in the ende Vic|torine doubting his owne ſuretie, woulde con|uey himſelfe wyth his men of warre out of the Countrey, and then ſhoulde it bee an eaſie mat|ter for the Scottes and Pictes, to recouer again all ſuche Countreys, as aunciently belonged to theyr elders, and whollye to reſtore the eſtates of theyr common wealthes vnto theyr former dignities.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This aduiſe was followed as the beſt and moſt likely, ſo that making ſundry rodes into the borders of their enimies Countreys ſo to keepe them ſtill occupied. Ferguſe and the Scottes re|fuſed vtterly to come to any foughten field with them.Victorine ac|cuſed vnto Honorius. Shortly after alſo it chaunced that Victo|rine was accuſed vnto the Emperour Honorius of ſome ſecrete practiſe agaynſt his Maieſtie, as to bee about to vſurpe the crowne of Brytayne, wherevnto hee was compelled in deede, by the ſouldiers whoſe heartes hee had wonne through his bounteous liberalitie ſundrie wayes declared towardes them and vnderſtanding at this pre|ſent, that he was mynded to haue fled his wayes for doubt of the ſayde information made againſt him, they moued him with ſuch earneſt perſwa|ſions to take vppon him the Imperiall dignitie, promiſing euen to liue and die with him in de|fence thereof, aſwell agaynſt Honorius,Victorine ta|keth vpon him the name and authoritie of Emperour in Brytayne. as all o|ther, that in the ende he conſented vnto their de|ſires, and ſo was proclaymed Emperor, and clo|thed in purpure, vſing thereto all the other Im|perial ornaments, as if he had bene Emperour in deede. But afterwardes when one Heraclianus was ſent with an army by Honorius into Bry|tayne agaynſt this Victorine,Heraclianus is ſent agaynſt Victorine. the moſt part of the ſouldiers, with thoſe Brytaynes which had acknowledged him for their ſupreme gouernour, beganne to feare the ſequele of the matter, and af|terward requiring pardon for their offences, they tooke Victorine,Victorine is deliuered in|to the hande of Heraclianus. and deliuered him priſoner vnto the ſame Heraclianus, with dyuerſe other of hys confederates, and ſo by this meanes was the e|ſtate of Brytayne recouered vnto the behoofe of Honorius,Heraclianus is ſent into Af|fricke. who ſhortly after ſent for Heraclia|nus, mynding to ſende him into Affrike againſt one Athalus, who vſurped there againſt the Ro|maine Empyre.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 [figure appears here on page 98] At his de|parture foorth of Brytayne,Placidus lieu|tenant of Bry|taine. he left one Pla+cidus as Lieu|tenant and ge|nerall of the Romaine ar|mye in thoſe parties: a man of no greate courage, and leſſe ſkill,The warre re|nued by the Scottes. which being peceyued of the Scottes, gaue occaſion vnto Ferguſe theyr king to renue the warre. And firſt hee procured Durſtus king of the Picts, being the third of that name to ioyne with him in that enterpriſe, accor|ding to the articles of the league. Who cõſenting therevnto, whẽ their powers were once aſſẽbled,The Scots and Pictes inuade the borders of their enimies. they entred into y^e marches of their enimies ouer|rũning the moſt of part Kile, Carrik, & Cõning|ham, and after they had taken their pleaſure there EEBO page image 99 they entered into Gallowaye, deſtroying all before them, which way ſoeuer they paſſed. Then turning into Pictland, they ſubdue the whole re|gion, and expulſe all ſuch Romaines and Bry|taines as inhabite in the ſame.