Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe three mightie armies therefore beeing thus aſſembled, marched forth towardes a place called Maheſbell,Mahesbel. where they vnderſtoode that Hengiſt with his power as then did ſoiourne. Where when both the campes were pitched, and one lying not farre from the other: at the firſt cer|taine light ſkirmiſhes were procured by both partes betwixt the light horſemen, wherewith at length being the more prouoked to diſpleaſure, they come into the fielde with their whole maine battailes, right fiercely encountering eche other,The Albions and Saxons encounter in battaile. ſo that as it appeared, their force was not ſo great but their mortall hate was euen as much, or ra|ther more, if the hyſtories ſay right.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Armorike Brytaynes with a new kinde of order in their fight, ſore troubled the Saxons,The Armorike Brytaynes. in piercing their battailes, with their men arrayed in certaine wardes, brode behinde, and narrowe before wedgewiſe. The Scots alſo and Pictes [figure appears here on page 121] bare downe both the wings of the Saxons, in ſuch maner, that the ſtandardes of all the three Nations, Scottes, Pictes, and Brytaynes, were at poynt almoſt to meete, hauing made way therevnto through the middeſt of their eni|mies.The Saxons diſcomfited. Wherewith the Saxons (beeing ſore diſ|couraged) began to giue backe, and finally, not|withſtanding all that Hengiſt could ſay or do, EEBO page image 122 to haue ſtayed them, they fell to running away, and fled amaine, which when he throughly ſaw, and perceyued that there was no recouerie,See more here of in England. hee himſelfe (in maner the laſt man that abode) fled likewiſe his wayes out of the field, with an am|buſhmẽt of horſmen about him, but being purſu|ed by Aurelius right fiercely, he was run through the bodie by him with a ſpeare, and ſo was there [figure appears here on page 122] ſlain out of hande,Hengiſt is ſlain by Aurelius as the Scottiſhe Chronicles ſay in the 400. of Chriſt, and 40 after his comming into the Iſle. Howbeeit the other of the Saxons cõueyed his ſonne Occa (being alſo ſore wounded) away with them vp into the next mountaynes, whither they fled for their refuge, leauing the dead bodie of his father Hengiſt in the fielde, to their high reproch, there to be ſpoyled and abuſed of his enimies.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Aurelius ha|ſteth forth to London.Aurelius Ambroſe hauing thus got the vp|per hande of his enimies, haſteth forth with all ſpeede vnto London, where hauing both the Ci|tie and tower deliuered into his handes, hee reco|uered the whole Ilande from the poſſeſſion of the Saxons: and ſuch of them as were apt men, able to beare armor, and to ſerue in the warres, he cõ|maunded to depart forth of the land. The other that were minded to tarie behinde their fellowes that were thus forced to depart, became ſubiectes to the Britains, and couenanted to become chri|ſtians. Thus much haue I written touching Aurelius Ambroſe, according to the report of the Scottiſh wryters, but more hereof ye may reade in the hyſtorie of Englande, where ye ſhall finde this matter ſet forth more at large. For yt which wee write here, is but to ſhewe in what ſort the Scottiſhe writers make relation of the warres which their nation had with the Saxons, when they began firſt to ſet foote here in this lande.