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Compare 1587 edition: 1 But now to returne to the other doings of A|chaius, ye ſhall vnderſtande,Adelſtane en|treth into Deira. that about the ſame time or not muche differing from the ſame, EEBO page image 165 Adelſtane the ſonne of Ethelwoolfe king of weſt Saxons, taking vpõ him the dominion of Kent, Eaſt Saxon, Mertia, and Northumberlande, whome Egbert his grandfather had receyued in|to his gouernment) deſirous nowe to enlarge his kingdome, entred into that part of the Pic|tiſh dominion, whiche aunciently hight Deira, and conteined the Marches about Barwike, al|ledging how the ſame apperteyned to his king|dome of Northumberlande, and had bene fraudu|lently taken from his aunceſters by the Picts: but forſomuch as there was a commotion reyſed the ſame time in Mertia, he was called backe to ap|peaſe it,Deira waſted by ſire and ſworde. and herevpon putting all to the fire and ſworde in Deira, ſauing ſuche priſoners as hee brought away with him, he returned.

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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hungus the Pictiſh king ſore ſtomaking this iniurious enterpriſe of the Engliſhmen, determi|ned to reuenge the ſame in all poſſible haſt, & ther|fore made inſtant ſute vnto Achaius (who had maried his ſiſter) to haue his ayde againſt them.

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