Compare 1587 edition: 1 In this meane while a newe ſupplie of fiue thouſande Saxons,A new power of Saxons co|meth ouer in|to Brytaine. with theyr wines and chil|dren, came ouer into this lande, in eyghtene hoyes, and amongſt other came Hengiſts wyfe and his doughter the Ladie Roxena. Shortly after alſo king Vortigerne gaue vnto Hengiſt and his Saxons a great parte of the countrey called Lyndſey, with a caſtell of greate ſtrength called Twhancaſtre. Some haue written that Hengiſt requyred of Vortigerne ſo muche grounde, as hee mighte compaſſe with an Oxe hide, and hauing that graunted, he tooke a migh|tie Oxe hyde, and cut it into ſmall thonges, and to cõpaſſing about a right ſtrong plot of ground with thoſe thonges line wife, beganne there the fundation of a Caſtell, whiche tooke name of thoſe thonges,Twhang ca|ſtel, or Thong caſtel. wherewith the plotte thereof was firſte meaſured, and ſo was it called Twhang caſtell.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But vpon what conſideration ſo euer it tooke that name,The Saxons firſt inhabited in Lyndſey. certaine it is by record of al the Scot|tiſhe hiſtories, that there the Saxons firſt inha|bited after their entring Brytaine.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 When Hengiſt had ſette things in order for the placing of his people there in dwellings, (ap|poynted them by Vortigerne) according as ſee|med beſte vnto his poletike head and craftie fore|caſt, hee tooke foorth the ſouldiers and menne of warre, ordered vnder certayne Captaynes and officers of bands, and led them forward by flow iourneys as it were ſtaying for the comming of the Brytains.