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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Vortigerne had gathered as then an huge hoſte of his ſubiectes, and appointed his gene|rall Lieutenant ouer them his ſonne Vorty|mere,Vortymer ge|nerall of the Brytons. a yong man of greate force and valiaun|cie, but ſo that he ſhould be ordered in all things by the aduice and diſcretion of Hengiſt, whoſe auctoritie for the warres he commaunded to bee chiefly followed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 When bothe the armise of Saxons and Brytaines were mette togither,The Saxons & Brytains, a|gainſt the Scots & Picts. Hengiſt ledde them ouer the riuers of Humber & Tyne, mar|ching directly towardes the place, where hee thought the enimies lay. The Scottiſhe and Pictiſh kings, hauing knowledge of ſuch prepa|ration made by the Brytons, they gathered their powers togither, to the number of .lx.M. men, EEBO page image 116 furniſhed with prouiſion of vitayles for a long time.lx. M. of Scots & Picts come to meete their enimies. But before theyr comming to the riuer of Tyne, vpon knowledge had that the Saxons and Brytains were paſſed the ſame, they made ſtreight towardes them, in purpoſe to haue gi|uen bataile without longer protracting of time: howbeit comming to the place where they were lodged, they founde them ſo ſtrongly encamped, that no aduauntage coulde be perceyued whiche way they might be conſtrayned to rayſe & come foorth of theyr ſtrength to receyue battayle vpon ſome euen grounde,Hengiſt pro|longeth time to giue battel. whiche Hengiſt of purpoſe for a time ſeemed to deferre.