Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Romaine Empyre being brought into irrecouerable ruyne by the Vandalles, Gothes, Hunnes, Frenchmen, and other barbarous na|tions, occupying ſundry partes and porcions thereof, put the Brytains out of all hope to haue any aſſiſtance from the Emperours, which cau|ſed them to remayne in quiet certaine yeares without attempting any exployte agaynſt the Scots or Picts, and ſo duely payde theyr coue|nãted tribute, though ſore againſt theyr willes, if they might otherwiſe haue remedied it.Conanus a Bryton goeth about to per|ſwade his coũ|trey men, to breake the peace conclu|ded with the Scots & Picts.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 At the laſt aboute .x. yeares after the conclu|ſion of this laſt peace, it chaunced that one Co|nanus the ſonne of the aboue mencioned Cona|nus deſcended of the bloud of the Octauij ſome|time kings of the Brytains, ſore maligned to ſee his countrey thus brought into thraldome of the Scottiſh nation, and deuiſing how to find ſome redreſſe, called togither the moſte parte of the Brytiſh nobilitie, by ſecrete meſſages home to a manour place whiche hee had within a thicke woode in the countrey of Kent, and there ope|ning vnto them a great peece of his minde, per|ſwaded them with the weightieſt reaſons hee could imagine, to leuie warre againſt the Scots and Pictes, hauing at that preſent, meane to EEBO page image 109 maintaine it aſwell by reaſon of theyr increaſe now ſithence the laſt warres, bothe of able men, as alſo of ſubſtaunce to furniſh them with.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Here the nobles were of ſundrie opinions: for ſome aweried with the note of bondage,The Brytons hauing re|ſpect to their ſonnes and kinſmen lying in hoſtage would not a|gree to breake the peace. would gladly haue had warres: other hauing regarde to theyr ſonnes lying in hoſtage with the eni|mies, would in no wiſe conſent thereto: by rea|ſon whereof this counſell brake vp without con|cluſion of any effect.