Compare 1577 edition: 1 At length Feredeth perceiuing the middle ward of his battell a litle to shrinke, speedilie preassed forth to succor the same with a chosen companie of such as he had appointed to attend him: but entring thus with great violence amongst the thickest prease of his enimies, he was closed in on each side, and exclu|ded so from the residue of his owne people, that hée could neither returne the same way he entered, nei|ther yet by anie other, so that he with those that were with him, perceiuing their liues to be in present danger, did cast themselues into a ring, deter|mining yet to reuenge their owne deaths, whervpon rather wearied with continuall fight, than vanqui|shed, or with any feare oppressed, they were slaine all the whole number of them, togither with Feredeth Feredeth is slaine. their king. Yet herewith did not the other Picts giue ouer the battell, so long as anie daie light was on the skie. So that the night in the end parted them in The night parted the armies. sunder, both the armies withdrawing to their camps with small ioy or triumph, by reason of the great slaughter which had béene made on both sides.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The capteins of the Picts weieng with them|selues The Picts fled by night. the losse of their king, and great multitude of their men, thought it not best to abide any longer in the field: wherefore leauing their wounded people behind them, with all their baggage in the campe, they fled incontinentlie the same night, some into one place, & some into another, where they thought best for their owne wealth and safetie. The Scots had fled immediatlie likewise, but that word was brought them as they were about to depart, how the Picts were gone alreadie, and had left their campe void of men of warre to defend the same. Where|vpon the Scots taried till it was day, not farre from the place of the battell. In the morning there were certeine horssemen appointed to ride abroad, and to view the field, thereby to vnderstand whether the Picts ment anie deceit by their departure, as by lai|eng of some ambushments, or otherwise: but vpon the returne of those horssemen, when it was once knowne how there was no such matter, but that they were fled in deed, the Scots reioising there at, The Scots diuide the spoile. fell to and gathered the spoile of the field, diuiding the same amongst themselues according to their ac|customed order.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 EEBO page image 127 Alpine himselfe commanded the bodie of his eni|mie Feredeth to be laid in christian buriall not farre Feredeth is [...]. from Forfair. After this causing the musters of his people to be taken, he found that he had lost the third part of his armie in that mortall and cruell battell, and therevpon brake vp his campe for that time, li|cencing those that were left aliue to returne vnto their homes. This battell being fought in the first The Scots [...] to warre onlie with incur|sions. yéere of the reignes of the two foresaid kings, weak|ned the forces of both nations, so farre forth that the Scots doubting to bring the realme into danger of vtter ruine (if they should commit their whole puis|sance estsoones to the hazard of another foughten field) determined to pursue the warre by making of incursions and inrodes onelie vpon their enimies, so to vex the Picts, and to bring them vnto reason, if it were possible. And so much verely the Scotishmen did by such their continuall rodes & incursions which they made into Angus, that the countrie was left void and desolate of all the inhabitants.