Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus proceede they forth towardes the bat|taile,Saint Germain beareth the kings ſtãdard. Saint Germain bearing the kings Stan|darde in the forefront, and vpon the approche to the enimies, he with the Prieſtes crying with a lowde voyce thrice togither Alleluya, was an|ſwered by all the whole hoſt, vttering and crying the ſame crie ſo wholly togither, that the verie ſounde thereof cauſed ſuch an eccho on eche ſyde, by reaſon of the hollow mountaynes and cli [...]es hard by them,The Saxons miraculouſly diſco [...]ed. that the Saxons amazed at thys doubled noyſe, and doubting not onely another power of their enimies, to be hiddẽ priuily among the hilles, which they ſawe on eche ſide of them, but alſo leaſt the verie rockes and mountaynes would haue fallen downe vpon theyr heades to|gither with the frame of the Element, readie (as it ſeemed to them) to breake in ſunder, they tooke them to their feete, in ſuche dreadfull haſte, that their breath was not able to ſuffice halfe the deſire they had to continue theyr courſe. Many of them made ſuch haſte, that running to the next ryuer in hope to paſſe the ſame, were drowned therein. To conclude, all of them generally threw awaye both weapon and armure, the more lightly to make away.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus through the pollicie of that bleſſed man Saint Germaine, the victorie remayned wyth King Vter and his Brytaynes, wythout any bloudſhed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Saint Bede making mention of this bat|tayle,Bede diſſen|teth from Hec|tor Boetius & his authour Veremond. aſſigneth the tyme to be at the firſt com|ming of Saint Germain into this lande, where Hector Boetius, following Veremond, ſuppo|ſeth it to be at the ſeconde time of his comming hither, which was in the dayes of king Vter.