Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 At the first there was no great aduantage per|ceiued on either side, the kings, according to the du|ties of valiant capteins, exhorting their people to sticke to it manfullie: but in the meane time, cer|teine bands of Egfreds part getting themselues to the side of an hill, gaue the looking on, without com|ming downe at all to aid their friends: which man|ner the residue of his people perceiuing, doubted of EEBO page image 116 some treason deuised against them, and therevpon began to shrinke backe. Egfred aduised therof, came amongst the foremost ranks of his battell, desiring the Englishmen in no wise to giue place to their e|nimies: and for that daies seruice he promised them high rewards, and all the pleasure that afterward he might be anie waies able to shew or doo them. But whilest he was thus busilie occupied in comforting & exhorting his men to fight stoutlie, he himself chan|ced King Egfred slaine. Sée more héereof in England. to be wounded in the face with an arrow so sore, that immediatlie he fell downe and died in the place. The Englishmen discouraged with this mischance, were quicklie therevpon put to flight and chased, a great number of them tooke the riuer so to escape the enimies hands, of whome the more part being pres|sed downe by weight of their armor, were drowned in the raging waues of the floud, the residue by ca|sting from them their armors and clothes, escaped by swimming ouer to the other side, but those that made their course by land, being cumbred in mires and mosses, also amongst streicts, rocks, mounteins and cliffes, were ouertaken by the Scots and slaine. Few of that number escaped awaie in safetie, so that there died in the fight and chase at the point of twentie thousand Saxons with their king the fore|said Twentie thou sand Saxons slaine. Egfred: of the Scots were slaine, besides those that were hurt and wounded, not manie aboue six thousand. By this ouerthrow the force of those Sax|ons or Englishmen of Northumberland was not onelie sore diminished, but also of such other Saxons, the which in no small number were come vnto Eg|fred, to aid him against the Scots in that iournie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Brudeus the Pictish king hauing knowledge of this slaughter, which had chanced betwixt the En|glishmen Brudens king of the Picts. and Scots, was nothing sorie, as one that was friend to neither part, and now perceiuing that the Northumberland men were so weakened, that Inuasion in|to Northum|berland. they were not able to resist an inuasion, he entred with his whole power which he had raised, into Nor|thumberland, sore afflicting th'inhabitants, insomuch that he had vndoubtedlie either subdued that coun|trie wholie vnto his dominion, either els vtterlie de|stroied it, had not the deuout praiers of S. Cutbert (who then held the sée of Lindesferne) preserued the Cutbert bi|shop. people from that present desolation. For at length af|ter the Picts had raged a while through the countrie, they chanced to fall at variance amongst themselues for parting of the spoile, and buckling togither by the eares, there was an huge slaughter made amongst them. And this was the cause, that contenting them|selues A slaughter amongst the Picts. with those countries about Berwike, anci|entlie called Deira, out of the which they expelled the Saxons, they absteined from all the residue, as not willing to deale withall. Neither were the Saxons of Northumberland, being thus scourged, able to re|couer their former forces againe, of manie yéeres af|ter insuing.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Héere is to be noted, that whereas the Scotish writers ascribe the victorie of that battell, wherein Egfred slaine by Picts and not by Scots. Eugenius the fi [...]t died. 688 Eugenius the sixt succéedeth Eugenius the fift. [...] league be|twéene the Scots and Northumber|land men. Truce taken with the Picts. Egfred was slaine, vnto their king Eugenius, Beda which then liued, declareth that the Picts were those that fought with him and slue him. Finallie, Euge|nius departed this life in the 4 yéere of his reigne, and after the incarnation 688. After Eugenius the fift, succeeded Eugenius the sixt, who was the sonne of Ferquhard, and by persuasion of bishop Adan|nan (with whome he was brought vp) & of S. Cut|bert, he entered into league with the Northumber|land men: but he would at no hand ioine in amitie with the Picts, notwithstanding he was contented to take truce with them. But when he saw the same oftentimes by them violated & broken, to the great perill, damage, and hinderance of his subiects, he caused the warre to be proclamed, and sent them his defiance by an herald. Howbeit, through the earnest praiers (as is supposed) of the two bishops, Cutbert and Adannan (who had laboured earnestlie to haue brought those people to a quietnesse) this warre con|tinued Warre with|out anie no|table incoun|ter. The death of Eugenius the sixt. 697 without anie notable incounter, saue onelie by light incursions (wherein no great bloudshed chanced) euen vnto the death of Eugenius, which fell in the yéere of our Lord 697, and in the tenth yeere of his owne reigne. He was buried togither with the other Eugenius, that lastlie reigned afore him, in the Ile of Colmekill, amongst their predecessors.