Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 In the meane time the Scotish and Pictish armies were come forward towards Aurelius, according to promise made vnto his ambassadours; but when his death was certeinelie knowen amongest them, the capteins and leaders of both those armies, resolued The Scotish armie returne home againe. to returne home againe, and so they did, for that they doubted in what state and order things should stand amongest the Britains now after the deceasse of their late king. After the death of Aurelius Am|brose, his brother Uter was made king of Britaine, and falling in loue with the wife of Gothlois duke of Cornewall, he did not onelie force hir to lie with him; but also to the end he might inioy hir the more fréelie, he ceassed not to pursue hir husband to rid him out of the waie, whome at length he tooke within a castell into the which he was fled, & foorthwith caused him to be executed, surmising mater against him, for that he had forsaken one of the capteins called Na|thaliod, in battell against the Saxons. By the wife of this Gothlois, Uter had issue the great Arthur, and because he had no legitimat sonne, he appointed that Arthur should succéed him in gouernement of the realme. Herewith Loth the Pictish king was Uter begat Arthur. not a little mooued, disdaining that Arthur being a bastard, and begot of another mans wife in adulte|rie, should be preferred before his sons the rightfull heires of the British kingdome: and therefore by ambassadours he did what he could to dissuade U|ter from making anie such ordinance. But when he saw that he could not remoue him from his opinion, he thought best to content himselfe with silence, till the time serued better for his purpose. At length when the wars were againe renewed betwixt Uter and Occa the Saxon king, Loth in reuenge of the iniurie doone to him and his children, ioined himselfe to the Saxons, and was with them at the battell, in which the Britains got the victorie by the presence of saint Germane that holie bishop of Auxer, as the Scotish writers make mention. Which battell as the same is set foorth by Hector Boetius, because it touched the state of the Picts, we haue thought good here to expresse.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 It was therefore about the feast of Easter, when the armies came into the field, the Saxons with the Picts on the one side, & the Britains on the other, of whom no small number (being either growen to be idolaters through conuersation with the Saxons, either els infected with the heresie of the Pelagians) euen there in campe, by hearing such good sermons as saint Germane preached amongest them, were S. Germane. preacheth vn|to the campe. conuerted to the true beliefe, receiuing at the same time the sacrament of the Lords bodie, togither in companie with other of the faithfull christians. Fi|nallie when both parties were readie to giue battell, EEBO page image 100 saint Germane tooke vpon him to haue the leading S. Germane leadeth the foreward. Their crie was Alleluia. of the foreward, wherein he had all the préests and ecclesiasticall ministers, giuing commandement, that when he should crie Alleluia, they should all an|swere him with one intire voice.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Thus procéed they foorth to the battell, saint Ger|mane S. Germane beareth the kings stan|dard. bearing the kings standard in the fore front, & vpon the approch to the enimies, he with the rest of the préests crieng with a lowd voice thrice togither Alleluia, was answered by all the whole host, vtte|ring and crieng the same crie so wholie togither, that the verie sound thereof caused such an eccho on each side by reason of the hollow mounteines and cliffes hard by them, that the Saxons amazed at this doub|led noise, and doubting not onelie another power of The Saxons miraculouslie discomfited. their enimies to be hidden priuilie among the hilles which they saw on ech side of them, but also least the verie rocks & mounteins would haue fallen downe vpon their heads togither with the frame of the ele|ment, Hyperbole. readie (as it séemed to them) to breake in sun|der, they tooke them to their féet in such dreadfull hast, that their breath was not able to suffice halfe the de|sire they had to continue their course. Manie of them made such hast, that running to the next riuer in hope to passe the same, were drowned therein. To conclude, all of them generallie threw away both weapon and armour, the more lightlie to make away. Thus through the policie of that blessed man saint Germane, the victorie remained with king Uter and his Britains, without anie bloudshed.