Compare 1577 edition: 1 Other articles there were comprised in this league, according as was thought requisite for the mainte|nance of stable friendship betwixt these kings and their nations. So that Arthur hauing concluded this league, and still being desirous to purge the whole Ile of all miscreants and enimies of the christian faith, he sent vnto the Scotish and Pictish kings, re|quiring Arthur sen|deth ambassa|dors vnto the kings of Scots and Picts. them on the behalfe of that dutie which they owght vnto the aduancement of Christs religion, to assemble their powers, & to méet him at Tinmouth, whither he would repaire to ioine with them, at such day as they would appoint, from thence to march foorth against the Saxons.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Loth king of the Picts, and Conranus king of the Scotishmen, failed not in this so necessarie an enter|prise, Scots, Picts and Britains ioine togither against the Saxons. but agréeable to Arthurs request, within few daies after they came forward, and ioining with the Britains, forth they went against the Saxons, whom they vnderstood to be alreadie in campe, vnder the conduct of their king Occa, in purpose to stop their passage. When both the armies were approched néere togither, they prepared to the battell, and first Col|germe duke of Northumberland mounting vpon a light gelding, rode almost euen hard to the face of the Picts, where they stood in their order of battell right stoutlie, and there vttering manie reprochfull Colgerme re|proueth Loth. words vnto Loth, and other of his nobles, for breach of their promised friendship to him and his Saxons. declared that he trusted shortlie to see iust punish|ment light vpon them for this falshood and vntruths sake, in thus ioining with their former enimies a|gainst their most trustie friends and stedfast alies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Pictish king not greatlie mooued héerewith, commanded his standards to aduance forward, and the Saxons likewise hasted apace towards them, so that the one being come within danger of shot of the other, the Picts let flie their arrowes verie freshlie. Arthur in the meane time hauing set his people in a|raie, exhorted them to fight manfullie: and so soone as he perceiued that the fraie was begun by the Picts, he in semblable wise cõmandeth the Britains to giue the onset, so that immediatlie there insued a sore conflict, the Scots being in the right wing, & slea|ing Cheldrike one of the chiefest capteins amongst the Saxons, quicklie discomfited that wing with the which they were first matched. Colgerme with his Saxons incountring (as is said) with the Picts, pla|ced in the left wing, rushed in amongst his enimies (vpon an earnest desire to be reuenged of his aduer|sarie king Loth) with such violence, that at their first incounter he ouerthrew the same Loth: but imme|diatlie Colgerme is run through by his aduer|saries. therevpon two Pictish horssemen running at Colgerme sidelingwise, bare him quite through.