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Compare 1587 edition: 1 To conclude, he was ſo acceptable to thẽ,The names of Irelande, and vvherof the ſame vvere de|riued, as they hold opinion. that to gratifie ſuch a benefactor, they agreed to name the Iland after him Gathelia, and after his wyfe Scotia.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This is one opinion but yet incredible, not onely to Humfrey Lluyd, but alſo to other lear|ned men, and diligent ſearchers of antiquities, by reaſon of the ſundry arguments of improbabili|tie, aſwel in the miſcompt of yeres, as other vn|likelyhoods found therin, when the circumſtances come to be duly examined, throughly weyed and well conſidered.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Yet certaine it is, that Irelande was aunci|entlye named Scotia, and the people Scottes, as by diuers olde writers it may bee ſufficientely proued, albeit by what occaſion it firſt tooke that name, or from whence they came, it is as yet doubted,

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