Compare 1587 edition: 1 Loth king of the Pictes, and Conranus king of the Scottiſhmen,Scottes, Pictes and Brytaines, ioyne togither agaynſt the Saxons. fayled not in this ſo neceſ|ſarie an enterpriſe, but agreeable to Arthures re|queſt, within fewe dayes after they came for|warde, and ioyning with the Brytaynes, forth they went agaynſt the Saxons, whom they vn|derſtoode to be alreadie in campe, vnder the con|duite of their king Occa, in purpoſe to ſtop their paſſage.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 When both the armies were approched neare togither, they prepared to the battaile, and fyrſt Colgerme Duke of Northumberlande mounted vpon a light gelding, rode almoſte euen harde to the faces of the Pictes, where they ſtoode in theyr order of battaile right ſtoutly,Colgerme re|proueth Loth. and there vttering many reprochfull wordes vnto Loth and other of his nobles, for breach of their promiſed friend|ſhip to him and his Saxons, declared that he tru|ſted ſhortly to ſee iuſt puniſhment light vppon them for this falſhood and vntruthes ſake, in thus ioyning with theyr former enimies againſt their moſt truſtie friendes and ſtedfaſt allies.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Pictiſhe king not greatly moued here|with, commaunded his Standards to aduaunce forwarde, and the Saxons likewiſe haſted apace towardes them, ſo that the one being come with|in daunger of ſhot of the other, the Pictes let flie their Arrowes right freſhly. Arthur in the meane time hauing ſet his people in aray, exhorted thẽ to fight manfully: and ſo ſoone as he perceyued that the fray was begon by the Picts, he in ſem|blable wiſe commaundeth the Brytaines to giue the onſet, ſo that immediately there enſued a ſore conflict: the Scottes beeing in the right wing, ſleaing Cheldricke one of the chiefeſt Captaines amongeſt the Saxons, quickly diſcomfited that Wing with the which they were firſt matched.