Compare 1577 edition: 1 At length when the Scotish and Pictish kings The Scots and Picts ap|proued the wall to assault it. were come to the wall, and had their people readie to giue the approch, they themselues stood apart some|what out of danger of shot: and such bands as were appointed to assaile, aduanced forth of the maine bat|tels vnder the leading of that Graime, the which (as Gra [...] assaul|teth the wall. ye haue heard) was chiefe in expelling the Britains when they had first made the same wall by comman|dement of Uictorine the Romane lieutenant. Nei|ther shewed he lesse proofe of his valiancie at this time than he had don before. For though the Britains made earnest resistance, so far as their power would extend, yet at the length by great force the wall was The wall is ouerthrowen. vndermined and throwen downe in sundrie places, so that the whole number of the Scots and Picts en|tered by the same into Pictland, beating downe the Britains on ech side that went about to make resi|stance, for none escaped their hands, but such as sa|ued themselues by flight.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There came also an other power of Scots and Picts by water out of Fife, and landing in Pictland, pursued the Britains with more crueltie than the kings did themselues. Both houses and people pas|sed by fire and sword, insomuch that all such of the Britains as could get away, withdrew foorth of the countrie, not staieng till they came beyond the ri|uer of Tine; by reason whereof, all the countrie which lieth betwixt Twéed and Tine was deliuered The Bri|tains leaue Pictland and get them|selues ouer the riuer of Tine. by appointment of the kings vnto the souldiers, to spoile and vse at their pleasure, wherevpon followed manie notorious examples of crueltie, enuie, coue|tousnesse, wrath & malice. In the meane time, whilest the Scotish and Pictish men of warre applied their market, the Britains with all diligence repared and newlie fortified the other wall begun (as is said) by the emperour Adrian, shooting ouerthwart the The wall of [...]rian is re|pared by the Britains. countrie from the riuer of Tine, vnto the riuer of Eske.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Howbeit the Scots and Picts, because winter ap|proched, made no further attempt against the Bri|tains at that time, but diuiding those countries The coun|tries lieng [...]th from the wall of A|drian diuided amongest the Scots and Picts. which lie by north from the foresaid wall of Adrian, among themselues, according to the order in that behalfe appointed by their kings, they fortified cer|teine castels and holds for defense of the same coun|tries, as it were to countergarison such Britains as continuallie kept watch and ward vpon the fore|said wall. The Britains therefore mistrusting least so soone as the spring were come, the Scots would inuade their countries which lay on the south part of the same wall, breaking in by force through it, as they had doone the yere before through the other wall of Abircorne, they sent ambassadors vnto Etius the Romane lieutenant, gouerning Gallia now called France, vnder the emperour Ualentinian, requi|ring The Bri|tains require and at the hands of E|tius. to haue some aid and succour at his hands, whereby to resist such fierce and cruell enimies, as sought to destroy and expell out of their lands and houses, all such of the Britains as acknowledged themselues in anie maner of wife subiects vnto the empire.