Compare 1587 edition: 1 Whiche newes ſore appalied the heartes of the Brytaynes, but yet beeing encouraged with comfortable wordes of their Captaines to pro|ceede, forwarde they goe togither with the Ro|maines, and withn three dayes after they came within ſight of their enimies, being raunged in battaile readie to receyue them,The armies ioyne in bat|taile. ſo that ſtreight wayes buckling togither, there was a right fierce and cruel battaile fought betwixt them, til finally the multitude of the Scottiſhe archers & Kernes ſo compaſſed in the battailes of the Romains on eche ſide, and ſpecially on the backes, that in the ende, and by reaſon of the loſſe of their generall Caſtius (who was ſlaine there amongſt them,The Romains giue backe.) thoſe of the middle ward being diſcomfited, brake theyr array, and fledde. Wherevpon the reſidue likewiſe followed: the Scots, Picts,The Scottes follow in the chaſe to raſhly and Welch|men purſuing them ſo egerly without all order, that there was no ſmall nũber of them diſtreſſed by the Romains, the which in their giuing back, kept thẽ cloſe togither, readie to defend thẽſelues, & to beat down ſuch of their enimies as followed more raſhly than warily in the chaſe, not once re|garding to keepe any order of battaile: but yet by other companyes that purſued more order|ly togyther for theyr moſt aduantage, there was great ſlaughter made both of the Romains and Brytaynes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 101 Dionethus proclaymed king of Bry|taine.After this victorie thus atchieued, Dione|thus was proclaymed King of Brytaine, and ſore warres continued in the lande by the pur|ſute of the Welchmen, Scottes, and Pictes, to the great hazard of the Prouince, and likely ex|pulſing of al the Romains quite out of the ſame.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Etius Lieute|nant of the Romaines in Fraunce or Gall [...]a.About this time alſo there remayned in France, one Etius Lieutenant to the Emperour Valen|tinianus, who vnderſtanding all theſe things by letters and meſſengers ſent from the captains which yet remayned aliue in Brytaine, appoyn|ted one Maximianus being a kinne to the Em|perour,Maximianus ſent ouer into Brytayne. to paſſe with an armie in all haſte ouer into Britaine, to ayde and ſuccor the Romains and ſuche Brytaynes there, as ſtill continued in theyr allegeance whiche they had promiſed vnto the Romaine Empyre.