Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This priest (all other being afraid) and some of them running their waies, began to recite the begin|ning of Saint Iohns gospell, and comming to these woords, Verbum caro factum est, suddenlie the wic|ked spirit making a verie [...]ore and terrible roaring noise, fiue his waies, taking the roofe of the chamber awaie with him, the hangings and couerings of the bed being also burnt therewith. The gentlewoman was yet preserued, and within thrée or foure daies af|ter was deliuered of such a mishapen thing, as the like before had not béene seene, which the midwiues and women, such as were present at hir labor, to a|uoid the dishonor of hir house, immediatlie burnt in a great fire, made in the chamber for the same in|tent. ¶ Thus much out of Hector Boetius, which, with more, he hath written to prooue that all is not feined which is written of the illusions of diuels and euill spirits, the credit whereof I leaue with the author.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now to returne where I left touching Aurelius Ambrose. Ye shall vnderstand, that he hauing once subdued and dispatched his aduersarie Uortigerne, determined to make warres against Hengist and Aurelius Ambrose pur|poseth to make warres a|gainst the Saxons. his Saxons, to prooue if his chance might be to reco|uer the realme out of their hands, and so to restore a|gaine the christian religion. But first yer he attemp|ted anie exploit against the enimies, he sent ambas|sadors both vnto Congall the Scotish king, and also vnto one Loth a towardlie yoong gentleman, and of Ambassadors sent vnto the Scots and Picts to re|quire their [...] against the Saxons. verie comelie personage, as then reigning among the Picts, requiring them both to aid him in so ne|cessarie an enterprise as he had in hand against the enimies of Christ and his religion. Wherevpon both these kings, weieng with themselues the dutie of all christian princes, in respect of the aduancement of EEBO page image 98 the cause of faith, and suppressing of ethnike idolatrie, promised their helpe to the vttermost of their pow|ers The Scots and Picts promise to aid the Britains against the Saxons. The league renewed be|twixt Bri|tains, [...]ts, and Scots. against the Saxons, who had in such tyranlike sort subuerted and abolished the christian profession within the British confines. And therefore the old league, according to the articles and couenants a|fore time concluded betwixt the thrée nations, was once againe renewed, and an armie prepared by e|uerie of them, to meet at a place and day appointed, for the better expedition of this their attempted voi|age.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 First Aurelius Ambrose, with such power as he brought with him foorth of France, & ioining there|vnto a great multitude of those Britains which had escaped the Saxons hands, either by withdrawing themselues into Wales, or else by conueieng them|selues into the countries of the Scots and Picts, set|teth forward toward the Scotish armie. But first cal|ling together those Britains that he had about him, and going vp to a little hill, where he might be heard Aurelius Ambrose ma|keth an orati|on. of them all, he made a long oration by waie of com|plaint, of the great iniuries and cruell practises vsed by Hengist, against the linage of king Constantine, and the whole estate of the British common-wealth: also of the horrible persecution made by him and his people the Saxons, against the professors of the chri|stian religion. All which matter he handled in woords so pithilie, his talke yet sauoring of the Romane elo|quence, that the minds of the souldiers being kindled therewith, required nothing but battell, as men not doubting but by his wise and politike conduct to at|chiue some glorious victorie. And to the end all thing might be doone in better order, according to his ap|pointment, immediatlie they proclamed him king. Aurelius Ambrose pro|clamed king of Britaine. Which was by account of the Scotish chronicles, in the yéere 498, after that Uortigerne with his sonne Uortimer had reigned 17 yéeres in the whole.