Compare 1587 edition: 1 At length, when the enemies were moſt at quiet, and as was ſuppoſed, nothing in doubt of any attempt to be made by the Scots and Bry|tons,The Scots and Brytons diſ|lodge. in the night ſeaſon, leauing a great num|ber of fyres in their campe, they ſodenly diſlod|ged, and paſſing the water by ſecret fourdes, they entred into Cumberland, and ſo after paſſing in|to Northumberland,The Scots and Brytons enter into Northũ|berland. they waſted and deſtroyed with fyre and ſword all that came within theyr reach: The report of which their doings brought Edelfred and Brudeus backe into that countrey to reſiſt theyr inuaſion, neither reſting day nor night, till they had got ſight of their enimies.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The next day, the ſouldiers on bothe ſides re|quiring battell,The fight be+twixt Scots and Brytons on the one ſide, and Saxõs & Picts on the other. togither they go with great noiſe and dinne bothe of men and inſtrumentes. To much hardineſſe in the Saxons cauſed no ſmall number of them to be ſlayne, rather chooſing to die with reputation of manhoode, than to giue backe neuer ſo little ground to the enimie. Thus the battell continued for a ſpace, right doubtfull whiche way the victory would incline.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 On the Brytons and Scottiſh mens ſide, there were foure chiefe rulers amongſt them, be|ſide Aydan himſelfe, as Conſtantius and Alen|crinus Bretons, Callan and Mordock Scottiſh men. Eche of theſe taking a ſeuerall charge vpon him, did earneſtly apply their vttermoſt ende|uers therein, encouraging their bandes to put a|way all cowardly feare, and manfully to ſticke to their tackle, ſithe by victory there was hope of eternall fame, beſide ſuertie of life, and aduaunce|ment to the common wealth of their countrey, where otherwiſe they might looke for nothing, but the contrary miſhaps, as ſhame, rebuke and importable ſeruitude, ſo that the Scottiſh men and Brytons incouraged herewith, preaſſed vpõ the enimies ſo fiercely,The Saxons & Pictes diſcõfi|ted & chaſed. that at length aſwell the Saxons as Picts were compelled to breake their array, & fall to plaine running away: the Scots following ſo egrely in the chaſe, that more of their enimies were thought to die in the flight, than before there had done in y^e battel. S. Colme as yet being aliue, and within his monaſterie in the Ile of Iona, had knowledge by diuine inſpi|ration (as the Scottiſh chronicles make men|tion of all theſe matters how they went, and at the very time that the battels were in fight togi|ther, he had aſſembled a companie of right ver|tuous and godly diſpoſed perſons, making inter|ceſſion for the proſperous ſpeede of their king the foreſayde Aydan, and at the very inſtant, as it was knowen after,S. Colme en|dewed with the ſprite of ſecrete know|ledge that the Saxons began to flee (as they which had the ouerthrow) that holy old father ſhewed greate token of ioy and glad|neſſe, declaring vnto his bretherne by the ſpryte of ſecrete knowledge or prophecie, how Aydan had the better, and that his enimies were diſcõ|fited, willing them therevpon to giue vnto God thankes for the ſame.