Compare 1587 edition: 1 Conanus is ſlaine amongſt the Brytains.The people hearing him ſpeake ſuch wordes, ſome wilfull wicked perſons fell vpon him, and ſlew him there preſently amongſt them: where|with other being ſore moued to indignation, ſet vpon the murtherers there to haue reuenged his death immediatly. Wherevpon began taking of partes, & togither they went by the eares in ſuch furious wiſe, that ſundry amongſt them being ſlayne, the magiſtrates had much a do to apeace the fray.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In this meane time, whileſt the Brytons were thus buſled in ſending of theyr Ambaſſa|dours to the Romayns, and conſulting togither for defence of theyr countrey,The Scots raſe the wall of A|bicorne. the Scottes firſte razed downe the wall of Abircorne, not leauing one piece thereof whole, ſo that a fewe tokens ex|cepted, nothing remayneth to be ſeene at this day of all that huge and wonderfull worde, it is cal|led now in theſe dayes,Gramyſdike. Gramiſdike, bicauſe there Grayme was not onely (as ye haue heard) chiefe in repulſing the Brytains from the ſame, but al|ſo at this time in the raſing of it to the ground, he was the greateſt doer.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scottiſh and Pictiſhe kings inuade the Bryttiſhe borders.Which being accompliſhed, the Scottiſh and Pictiſh kings aſſembled theyr powers, and ouer|threw al ſuch fortreſſes as had not bene deſtroyed the yeare before, ſtanding on the North ſide of Adrians wall, the whiche wall the Brytons had newly fortified, but yet were not able to de|fend the ſame from the power of the enimie, who now ſet vpon the Brytons with a mayne force, in ſo much that vndermining the fundations of that walle in diuers places:Adrians walle vndermined & ouerthrowen. at length ſundry partes therof were reuerſed into the dieth, ſo that the ſouldiers breaking in by the ſame, cruelty beate downe the Brytons whiche ſtoode at de|fence.