Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But now to returne where we left. After that Uictorine pre pareth an armie to go against the Scots. Uictorine the Romane legat was aduertised of all the fore-remembred dooings of the Scotishmen and Picts, he caused an armie to be leuied with all spéed, and hasted foorth with the same vnto Yorke, where Uictorine [...] keth to per|suade the Picts from taking part with the Scots. being arriued, he attempted by an herald at armes to persuade the Picts to forsake their confederacie latelie concluded with the Scots: but perceiuing he could not bring it to passe, he determined to pursue both those nations with open warre: and so there|vpon setting forward, he passed foorth till he came néere Camelon, where he incamped with his whole Uictorine in|campeth néere vnto Camelõ with 50000 men. armie, hauing therein (as the report went) about fif|tie thousand persons at the least. Ferguse being ad|uertised hereof, & hauing in like maner alreadie as|sembled a mightie huge host both of Scotishmen and Picts, came therwith ouer the Forth, & marched Ferguse pas|seth the Forth Ferguse pur|poseth to as|saile his eni|mies in the dawning of the day. forth with all speed in the night season, in purpose to haue set on his enimies verie earlie in the dawning of the next morning. But Uictorine hauing know|ledge thereof, commanded his men to be arranged and set in order of battell by the third watch of the same night, so that being redie to receiue the Scots vpon their first approch, there was fought a right sore and cruell battell, with such slaughter on both parts, that the riuer of Carron (néere vnto the EEBO page image 83 which their battels ioined) was well néere filled with The riuer of Carron run|neth with bloud. dead bodies, and the water thereof so changed into a ruddie hue, that it séemed as though it had run al|togither with bloud.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 In the end (whilest as yet it was doubtfull to The battell seuered by reason of a [...], whether side the victorie would incline) there came such a sudden shower of raine, mixed with such great abundance of haslestones, that neither part was a|ble to haue sight of other, so that by reason of the vio|lent rage of that huge storme and tempest, either side was saine to withdraw from the other. There were slaine in this battell such great numbers of men, as well on the one side as the other, that they had small lust to ioine in battell againe for certeine yéeres af|ter. For the Roman lieutenant vnderstanding what The lieute|nant furni|shing diuerse holds, retur|neth into kent. losse of people he had susteined, without attempting anie further exploit, appointed certeine of his com|panies to lie in garrison within sundrie fortresses in Pictland, & with the residue he returned into Kent. In like sort the Scots with their confederates the Picts, perceiuing themselues not able as then to The Scots & Picts break|vp their campe. make anie further attempt against their enimies, brake vp their armie, and deuised onelie how they might defend that which they had alreadie in posses|sion.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 And forsomuch as the Pictish nation was increa|sed vnto a greater multitude of people, than those countries which they then held were able to find with sufficient sustenance (considering what a great portion of their ancient seates the Britains and Ro|mans kept from them) it was agréed by the Scots that they should inioy the countrie of Athole, with other lands bordering néere vnto the same, lieng without the compasse of the mounteine of Granze|ben. Athole assig|ned to the Picts. The Picts then being placed in Athole, increa|sed there woonderfullie, and builded manie faire ca|stels and towers in those parties, to the great beau|tifieng of that countrie. In which meane while, Uic|torine the Romane lieutenant commanded the Bri|tains The Bri|tains by the appointment of Uictorine make a wall. to make hast with the wall (whereof ye haue heard) made of turfe, and susteined with certeine posts of timber passing ouerthwart the borders be|twixt them and their enimies, begining (as ye haue heard) at Abercorne, and so stretching foorth by Glas|co, and Kirkpatrike, euen vnto Aldcluch, now Dun|briton, 80 miles more northward than the other wall, which the emperor Adrian caused (as is said) to be made.