Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Engliſh mẽ diſcouraged with this miſ|chance, were quickly thervpõ put to flight & cha|ſed, a great nũber of thẽ tooke y^e riuer ſo to eſcape the enimies hands, of whom the more part being preſſed downe by weight of theyr armure, were drowned in the raging waues of the floude, the reſidue by caſting from them theyr armures and clothes, eſcaped by ſwimming ouer to the o|ther ſide, but thoſe that made theyr courſe by lande, being cumbred in myres and moſſes, alſo amongſt ſtraytes, rockes, mountains and cliefes, were ouertaken by the Scottes and ſlayne. Few of that number eſcaped away in ſafetie, ſo that there died in the fight and chaſe at the poynt of twentie thouſand Saxons with theyr king the foreſayd Egfred: of the Scottes were ſlaine,Twẽtie thou|ſande Saxons ſlaine. be|ſide thoſe that were hurt and woũded, not many aboue .vj. M. By this ouerthrowe the force of thoſe Saxons or Engliſh men of Northumber|land was not onely ſore diminiſhed, but alſo of ſuch other Saxons, the which in no ſmall num|bers were come vnto Egfred to ayde him a|gainſt the Scottes in that iourney.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Brudeus the Pictiſhe king hauing know|ledge of this ſlaughter,Brudeus king of the Pictes. whiche had chaunced be|twixt the Engliſh men and Scottes, was no|thing ſorie, as one that was frende to neither parte,Inuaſion into Northumber|land. and now perceyuing that the Northum|berland men were ſo weakened, that they were not able to reſiſt an inuaſion, he entred with his whole power, which he had rayſed, into Nor|thumberland, ſore afflicting the inhabitants, in ſo much that he had vndoubtedly either ſubdued that countrey wholly vnto his dominion, eyther els vtterly deſtroyed it,Cutber [...]e bi|ſhop. had not the deuout pray|ers of Saint Cutbert (who as then held the ſee of Lyndefar) preſerued the people from that pre|ſent deſolation. For at length after the Pictes had raged a while through the countrey, they chaunced to fal at variance amongſt themſelues for parting of the ſpoyle,A ſlaughter a|mongſt the Picts. and buckling togither by the eares, there was an huge ſlaughter made amongſt them. And this was the cauſe, that contenting themſelues with thoſe countreys a|bout Barwike, aunciently called Deera, out of the whiche they expelled the Saxons, they ab|ſteyned from all the reſidue, as not willing to deale withall. Neither were the Saxõs of Nor|thũberland being thus ſcourged, able to recouer theyr former forces again of many yeares after.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Here is to be noted that where as y^e Scottiſh writers aſcribe the victorie of that battel,Egfred ſlaine by Picts and not by Scots. wherin Egfred was ſlaine, vnto their king Eugenius, Beda which then liued, declareth that the Picts were thoſe that fought with him and ſlew him.Eugenius the fifth died. 688. Finally, Eugenius departed this life in the .iiij. yere of his reigne, and after the incarnation. 688.