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,

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But to procede with the hiſtorie as we fynde it. The reſidue of Gathelus his people whiche remayned in Spayn, founded the citie of Bayon in the confines of Gaſcoigne, and repleniſhed the ſea coaſtes of Spayn with ſtore of inhabitants, and well neere aboute two hundred yeeres after their firſt arriuall there, when they were eftſoones peſtered with multitude of people they beganne to fanſye a newe voiage, but whether at that tyme they paſſed ouer into Irelande, or ſome EEBO page image 5 whither elſe it is vncertayne.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Notwithſtanding, ſure it is, that in the days of Gurguntius kyng of the Britons the chiefe gouernour of Bayon with .iiij. brethren Spani|ardes of the whiche two are ſayde to be Hyberus and Hermion not the ſonnes (ſome thynke) of Gathelus, (as Hector Boetius affirmeth) but ſome other perhappes that were deſcended from him, who vnderſtanding that diuers of the We|ſterne Iles were emptye of inhabitantes, aſſem|bling a greate number of men, women, and chil|dren, embarqued with the ſame in .60. great veſ|ſels, and directing their courſe Weſtward, houe|red a long time in the ſea aboute the Iles of Or|keney,Gurguntius. vntill by good happe they met with Gur|guntius then returning frõ the conqueſt of Den|marke (as in the Brytiſhe hiſtorie it appeareth) whome they beſoughte in conſideration of theyr wante of victuals and other neceſſaries, being ſuche as they were not able longer to abyde the ſeas, encombred with a ſort of women and chil|dren, to directe and appoynt them to ſome place where to inhabite, promiſing to holde the ſame of hym, and to become liege people to hym and to his heyres for euer.