Compare 1587 edition: 1 In this meane tyme, Honorius the Empe|rour being dead, and the eſtate of the Romaine Empyre dayly falling into decay,Placidus the Lieutenant of Britaine dieth. it chaunced alſo that Placidus the Lieutenant of Brytaine departed out of this life, by reaſon whereof the Scottiſh men and Pictes tooke occaſion to renue the warres,The Scots and Pictes renue the warre. making as it were a clayme vnto the Countreys of Weſtmerlande, and Cumber|lande, which theyr elders in tymes paſt had held and poſſeſſed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Entering therefore into thoſe Countreys, they take,The crueltie of the Scottes and Pictes. ſpoyle, and deſtroy all ſuch of the Bry|tiſh nation as went about to deſtroy them. Nei|ther ſpared they impotẽt age or other, but ſhewed great crueltie agaynſt all ſuche as came in theyr wayes. Many an honeſt woman they reuiſhed and miſuſed after a moſt villaynous maner.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Romaine ſouldiers after the deceaſſe of Placidus,Caſtius ordey|ned Lieutenãt of Brytayne. ordeyned one Caſtius to ſucceede in his roomth, who beeing aduertiſed of thys en|terpryſe of the Scottiſhe men and Pictes, doub|ted leaſt (as the trouth was) that Dionethus the ſonne of Octauius ſometyme King of the Brytaynes,Dionethus, or Dionotus as ſome bookes haue. in hope to attayne the Crowne of Brytayne, as due to him by inheritance, would nowe ſeeke to ayde the Scottiſhe king Ferguſe, whoſe ſiſter he had in mariage. Caſtius therfore more deſirous of peace than of warres,Caſtius ſen|deth vnto Ferguſe. ſent forth a meſſenger at Armes vnto king Ferguſe, requi|ring him to remember the league made betwixt him and the Romaines, and to withdrawe hys power forth of the prouinces which were ſubiect vnto the ſame Romans, without proceeding any further in that vnlawfull attempt, either elſe hee ſhould be ſure to feele the puiſſant force of thoſe people readie bent agaynſt him, by whom his el|ders had beene dryuen out of theyr Countreys, and baniſhed quite forth of al their dwellings and places of habitation in Albion.