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Compare 1577 edition: 1 These newes being reported vnto Agricola, he made his prouision with all spéed to go against them, and first entring into the borders of Pictland, he re|duced such as inhabited about the confines of Ber|wike to their former subiection, and after marching towards the citie of Camelon, Karanach king of the Picts incountred him by the waie, but being fierce|lie beaten off by the Romans, he fled backe into the citie, and within three daies after hauing reinforced his power, he eftsoones gaue battell againe to his e|nimies; but then also being vanquished, he lost the most part of all his men, and so immediatlie there|vpon was Camelon woone by force, & a great num|ber of the citizens slaine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Agricola caused it to be newlie fortified, and fur|ther through fame of this victorious beginning, he recouered the most part of all the castels and fortres|ses of Pictland. The forenamed Karanach escaping out of that present danger, got him beyond the wa|ter Karanach [...]eth beyond the Firth. of Firth, for the more suertie of his owne person. Agricola hauing sped thus in Pictland, marched foorth against them of Annandale, who at the first ma|king resistance for a time, at length were constrei|ned to giue backe, and so fled to their houses, where in the night following by their owne wiues they were murthered each mothers sonne: for so the wo|men of that nation vsed to put awaie the shame of The Scots of Annandale slaine by their wiues. their husbands, when they at any time had fled out of the field from their enimies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Agricola vnderstanding that by winning him fame in the beginning, it should be no small furthe|rance vnto him for the atchiuing of other enterpri|ses in time to come, determined to pursue his good fortune, and therevpon prepared to subdue the Ile Here is a ma|nifest error in the Scotish writers, ta|king Man for Anglesey. Agricola as|saileth the Ile of Anglesey and not Man as Hector Boe [...]ius mistaketh it. of Man; but wanting vessels to conuey his armie ouer, he found meanes that such as could swim, and knew the shallow places of that coast, made shift to passe the goolfe, and so got on land, to the great woon|der and amazing of the inhabitants, who watched the sea coasts, to resist such ships as they looked for to haue arriued vpon their shore: but now despairing to resist such kind of warriors as indangered them|selues to passe the seas in that maner of wise, they submitted themselues vnto Agricola.

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