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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Whereof the Scots and Picts being informed, they assembled themselues togither, & vnder the lea|ding The Scotish men & Picts interrupt the making of that wall. of a noble man called Graime, they set vpon the Britains, as they were busie in working about the same, and slue not onelie a great number of la|bourers and souldiers, which were set to labour and defend the worke, but also entering into the British borders, fetched from thence a great bootie of cattell and other riches, which they found dispersed abroad in the countrie. This Graime (who as I said was chiefe Graime, other wise called Graham, and his linage. in this enterprise) was brother vnto the Scotish quéene, the wife of king Ferguse. He was borne in Denmarke (as some hold opinion) in the time of the Scotishmens banishment, and had a Scotishman to his father descended of a noble house, and a Da|nish ladie to his mother. He himselfe also maried a noble woman of that nation, and had by hir a daugh|ter, whome Ferguse by the persuasion of the king of Ferguse ma|ried a daugh|ter of Graime Denmarke tooke to wife, and had issue by hir (afore his comming into Scotland) thrée sonnes, Euge|nius, Dongarus, and Constantius, of whome here|after in their place mention shall be made, as occa|sion serueth. Other there be, that affirme how this Diuersitie of opinions tou|ching the ori|ginall begin|ning of the Graimes. Graime was a Britaine borne, & that through hate which he bare towards the Romans for their cruell gouernement, he fled foorth of his natiue countrie, and continued euer after amongst the Scots, as first in Denmarke, and afterwards in Albion, euer rea|die to doo what displeasures he could deuise against the Romans & other their friends or subiects. Of this Graime those Scots, which vnto this day beare that surname, are said to be descended.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to the purpose. Ye shall vnderstand, that after that it was knowne in forrein countries, how the Scots had got foot againe within those regions in Albion, which their elders in ancient time had pos|sessed, The Scotish men returne into their countrie. there came dailie diuerse companies of that nation out of Spaine, France, Germanie, and Ita|lie (where during the time of their banishment they had serued vnder sundrie capteins) vnto Ferguse to Ferguse in|uadeth the confines of the Britains. aid him, in recouerie of their countrie and ancient seats, out of the which they had béene most cruellie expelled. So that Ferguse now séeing his power thus not a little augmented by their comming, ente|reth into the borders of Kile, Carike, and Coning|ham, spoiling and harrieng those countries on eue|rie side: but shortlie therevpon commeth the armie of the Romans, with whome the Scots incounte|ring The Scots put to the woorse. in battell, receiued no lesse damage than they minded to haue doone vnto their aduersaries. Wher|vpon being forced to leaue that countrie, they drew backe into Argile, where Ferguse wintered for that part of the yéere which yet remained.