Compare 1587 edition: 1 On the other parte the Saxons according to theyr maner in time of any preſent daunger,The Saxons cloſe them|ſelues togi|ther. clo|ſed themſelues togither and drewe neare vnto theyr chiefetayns ſtanderd. Finally the tempeſt no ſooner beganne to ceaſſe, but the Scottes and Pictes leauyng their order of battayle, fell to followe the chaſe of the Brytaines,The Scots & Pictes purſue the Brytains. ſuppoſing the victorie had bin wholly theirs. Which y^e Saxõs (now after that the element began to cleare vp) EEBO page image 115 playnely perceyuing, by commaundement of theyr generall Hengiſt,The Saxons aſſayle the Scots & Pictes diſordered in purſute of the Brytains. aſſayled the Scottes and Pictes here and there diſperſed aboute the ſpoyle and ſlaughter of the Brytains, and made ſuche murder of them on euery ſide where they found them, that pytie it was to beholde. Thoſe that eſcaped by flight, neuer ſtayed till they were gotten into places farre ynough out of daunger.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This was a blacke day with the Scots and Pictes. Neyther was it very ioyfull to the Bry|tains, of whom no ſmal number died in the place by the enimies ſwoorde.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hengiſt hauing thus gotten the victorie, with|drew to Yorke, leauing thoſe countreys be|twixt Tyne and Twede in the enimies handes, of purpoſe ceaſſing from further endomaging them,Hengiſt pur|poſed at the firſt to make a conqueſt of the Brytains. that the Brytains might haue neighbours whome to feare: For that as he thought ſhould make much for his purpoſe, alreadie hauing de|termined to make a conqueſt of this Iſle.