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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But hereunto was anſwere made with great indignation, that as for the league thus alledged,The anſwere of king Ferguſe. ceaſſed by the death of Placidus, & as for peare, there was no cauſe why he ſhould looke for any, till the whole prouinces both of Weſtmerlande and Cumberland were reſtored againe vnto the hands of the Scottiſh men and Picts, according as of reaſon they ought to be. The like anſwere alſo was made by Durſtus king of the Pictes vnto whom Caſtius had ſent a like meſſage.