Compare 1587 edition: 1 Placidus being aduertiſed hereof,Placidus ga|thereth a power. gathered a great power, and commeth forwarde towardes them, with whom encountering in battaile, after [figure appears here on page 99] long fight,He encounte|reth with his enimies. his horſemen chaunced to be put to flight, ſo that the legions of his footemen beeing left naked on the ſides, were ſo ſore beaten with the ſhot of arrowes,Placidus recei|ueth the ouer|throw. and hurling of dartes, that in the ende they were forced to breake their array, and ſo being chaſed, left to the Scottes and Picts a great and ioyfull victorie. Placidus himſelfe eſ|capeth vnto Yorke,He flyeth to Yorke. whither the Scottes were minded to haue purſued him, had not the want of ſuch numbers as they had loſt at the battaile, ſomewhat abated their couragious intents.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the meane time Placidus not onely moo|ned wyth this ouerthrowe, but alſo waying wyth himſelfe after what ſorte the Romaine Empyre was afflicted, with inuaſion of the barbarous Nations in Germanie, Fraunce, Spaine, Italie, and Affrike, thought it good to conclude ſome peace with the Scots and Pictes,Placidus ſee|keth to haue peace. for doubt of further miſhappes that might en|ſue. And ſo by ſuche meanes as he made ſhort|ly after, a league was concluded betwixte the Scottes, Pictes, and Romaines, wyth theſe conditions,A league con|cluded betwixt Scottes, Pictes, and Romains. that the Scottes and Pictes ſhoulde enioy and keepe theyr auncient ſeates and Re|gions, whiche they had nowe recouered, and hereafter not to make anye rodes or forrayes into the Prouince belonging to the Romaines, and that the ſame Romaines contenting them|ſelues with the Brytiſhe confines, ſhoulde not moue any warre or hoſtilitie towards the Scots or Pictes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This league being thus concluded and ra|tefied, the Scottiſhe men and Pictes endeuoured themſelues to reduce the ſtate of theyr common wealth into the auncient fourme and order. Ferguſe made partition of landes and groundes throughout all his kingdome,Ferguſe deui|deth the lande in partes. and aſſigned the ſame forth vnto his ſubiectes the Scottiſhmen, and to ſuch other ſtraungers as were come into Albion to ſerue him in the warres agaynſt hys enimies, and were mynded now to remain there. The other that were deſirous to depart agayne into theyr Countreys, he gaue them honourable rewards, with ſafeconduits to paſſe their wayes at their owne pleaſures.