Compare 1577 edition: 1 Not far hense there lieth the great Ile of Bri|taine, The Irish persuadeth the Pi [...]s to place them|selues in Britains. in the north part whereof, being void of inha|bitants, your manhoods and policies may purchase for you roomes to place your selues at ease: we shall appoint you capteins to guide you thither, we shall assist to settle you with our forces in that coun|trie, make readie your ships that yée may passe thi|ther with all conuenient spéed. Incouraged with this persuasion, they tooke their course towards the north parts of Britaine now called Scotland, where contrarie to their expectation Marius king of Bri|taine was readie to await their comming, and with Marius o|therwise c [...]|led [...]ruira|gus king o [...] Briton [...]. sharpe battell vanquishing them in field, slue Rodo|rike with a great number of his retinues. Those that escaped with life, and sought to him for grace, he li|cenced to inhabit the vttermost end of Scotland. This Marius Humfrie Lhuid taketh to be the same, whome the Romane writers name Aruiragus, who reigned about the yere of our Lord seuentie, a prince of a noble courage and of no small estimation in his daies (as should séeme by that which is written of him.) His right name (as the said Humfreie Lhuid anoucheth) was Meurig.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now concerning the Picts whether that those that escaped with life, got seats by king Meu|rigs grant (as aboue is specified) or that getting to their ships, they withdrew into the Iles of Orkeneie, and there remained. Wiues they wanted also to in|crease their issue: and bicause the Britons thought scorne to match their daughters with such an vn|knowne and new come nation, the Pi [...]s continu|ed their first acquaintance with the Irish, and by in|treatie obteined wiues from them, with condition, that if the crowne should hap to fall in contention, Pi [...]s ma [...]|eng with the Irish d [...] co|uenant the succession of their kings. they should yéeld thus much to the prerogatiue of the woman, that the prince should be elected rather of the bloud roiall of the female kind than of the male. Which order (saith Beda) the Pi [...]s were well known to kéepe vnto his time.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But howsoeuer we shall giue credit to this histo|rie of the first comming of Pi [...]s into this land, if we grant that to be true which Geffreie of Monmouth EEBO page image 51 reporteth of this victorie obteined by Marius against the Picts: yet haue I thought good to aduertise the reader, that the Britons of this Ile were disquieted by that nation long before the supposed time of the said king Marius. For Mamertinus in his oration intituled Panegyricus, Max. Dictus hath these words (speaking of the conquest which Iultus Cesar had héere against the Britons.) But in that age (saith he) Britaine was neither furnished with anie ships of warre for battell on the sea, and the Romans after the warres of Affrike and Asia, were well practised with the late warres against pirats, and after that against Mithridates, in which they were exercised as well by sea as land. Moreouer, the British nation was then vnskilfull, and not trained to feats of war, for the Britons then being onelie vsed to the Picts and Irish enimies, people halfe naked through lacke of skill, easilie gaue place to the Romans force, so that Cesar might onelie as it were glorie in this, to haue passed in that iourneie ouer the ocean sea.