Compare 1587 edition: 1 About this ſeaſon ſhould i t be alſo that Arthur did atchieue all thoſe worthie victories which are aſcribed vnto him agaynſt the Scots,The victori|ous conqueſts aſcribed to Arthure. Iriſh men, Danes, Norwegians, & other northren people. Moreouer it is written by ſome authors, that he ſhoulde ſubdue the moſt part of Germanie with the low coũtreys, Brytain, Normandie, France, and the Romaines, with the people of the Eaſt, but the credit hereof reſteth with y^e ſame authors. Only it is certain (as Hector Boetius affirmeth) that Arthur liued in the dayes of Iuſtinianus the Emperour,This cauſeth no ſmal doubt to ariſe of the great victories aſcribed vnto Arthure. aboute whiche time the Gothes, Vandales, Burgonions, and Frenchmen did in|uade ſundrie partes of the Romaine Empyre, pitifully waſting and ſpoyling the ſame, where yet ſuche wryters as haue ſet forth thoſe warres make no mention of Arthur at all. Therfore let|ting all doubtfull things paſſe, I will proceede with my author, and declare what he hath found written in ſuch Scottiſh Chronicles as he follo|weth touching the Britiſh Arthur, which for that it partly varieth from the other our cõmon chro|nicles,Geffray of Monmouth. namely Geffray of Monmouth, I think it worthy to be noted here, to the ende that euery man may iudge therof as to him ſeemeth beſt.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Brytaines repent them|ſelues of the league con|cluded with the Pictes.To the purpoſe then: after the Brytains were deliuered from the terror of the Saxons, and that with quietneſſe they began to waxe welthie, they repented them of the league, which they had con|cluded afore with Loth king of the Pictes, ſpeci|ally for that they could not in any wiſe be cõten|ted to haue any ſtranger to raign amongſt them,The requeſt of the Brytaynes to haue one of their own na|tion appoyn|ted to ſucceed king Arthure. and hereupon comming vnto Arthur, required of him, ſith he himſelf had no iſſue to ſucceed him, y^t it might pleaſe him yet, to name one of his owne nation to gouerne them after his deceaſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Arthure not gainſaying their requeſt, willed them (ſithe their pleaſure was ſuch, in no wiſe to haue a ſtranger to raigne ouer them) to name one themſelues, being diſcẽded of the bloud royal, and ſuch a one as in whom they had perceyued ſome towardly proufe of wiſedome & valiancie: and he for his part promiſed to ratifie their election.