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Compare 1587 edition: 1 There died in this mortall battell neare to the point of .xvj. thouſande of the Brytains, and of the Scottes and Pictes aboue .xiiij. thouſand with Dongard the Scottiſh king.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Conſtantine the daye nexte after the battaile, withdrew ſouthwardes. The Scots carryed a|way with them the corps of their dead king, and conueying it into the Ile of Iona, nowe called Colmkill, there buried it in kingly wiſe. Don|garde was thus ſlayne, in the fyfth yeare of hys reigne after the byrth of our Sauior .475. yeares and about the ſeconde yeare of Zeno the Empe|rour.465. H.B. S. of Leo. H. B.

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