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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scottes and Picts hearing of the Bry|tons intents,The Scots and Pictes prepare againſt the Brytons. gathered their people togither with more ſpeede than was thought poſſible for them to haue done, and foorthwith ruſhed into the bor|ders of theyr enimies countreys in right puyſ|ſaunt wiſe and moſt warrelike order.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the forewarde went ſuche as came foorth of Galloway and Annandale with thoſe Pictes whiche inhabited about the coaſtes of Barwike.The order of the Scots and Pictes entring into the landes of the Brytons. Then followed there a mightie battell of thoſe whiche came foorth of Argyle, Athole, and other Pictes inhabiting neare vnto the parties of Ka|lendar and Camelone with them of Fyfe, and Angus. In the middes of this battell bothe the kings kept theyr place with their choyſeſt ſoul|diers, and ſtandards borne afore them. Then came the cariage and truſſe of the armie, nexte wherevnto a great number of noble men of both the nations followed in fayre order of battell, with theyr ſeruaunts and men of warre the beſt they coulde chooſe foorth. And laſt of all (as the maner of thoſe nations hath bene euen from the beginning) there came a great multitude of the commons cloſing vp the backe of the whole a|foreſayd armie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Brytons alſo comming foorth into the field with theyr whole puiſſaunce to encounter theyr enimies,The Brytons doubte to ioyne with the mayne armie of the Scottes and Pictes. when they vnderſtood by eſpials the order and mayne force of the Scottes and Pictes, they were halfe diſcouraged in theyr mindes, and thought good therefore once againe to aſſay if any peace might be purchaſed. But ſending forth theyr Ambaſſadours vnto the con|federate kings to that end, theyr anſweare was, that except the Brytons would yeeld thẽſelues, their wifes and children with all theyr goodes and ſubſtaunce into the handes of their enimies, EEBO page image 107 ſimply without all conditions, there would bee no peace graunted.

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