Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 To conclude, he was so acceptable to them, that The n [...]mes of Ireland, & whereof the same were de|riued, as they hold opinion. to gratifie such a benefactor, they agreed to name the Iland after him Gathelia, and after his wife Scotia. This is one opinion but yet incredible, not onelie to Humfreie Lhuid, but also to other learned men, and diligent searchers of antiquities, by reason of the sundrie arguments of improbabilitie, aswell in the miscount of yeares as other vnlikelihoods found therein, when the circumstances come to be dulie ex|amined, throughlie weied, and well considered. Yet certeine it is, that Ireland was ancientlie named Sc [...]tia, and the people Scots, as by diuerse old wri|ters it may be sufficientlie prooued: albeit by what occasion it first tooke that name, or from whense they came, it is as yet doubted. But to proceed with the historie as we find it. The residue of Gathelus his people, which remained in Spaine, founded the citie of Baion in the con [...]ines of Gascoigne, and repleni|shed the seacoa [...]s of Spaine with store of inhabi|tants, and welnéere about two hundred yeares af|ter their first arriuall there (when they were e [...]tsoones pestered with multitude of people) they began to fansi [...] a new voiage, but whether at that time they passed ouer into Ireland, or some whither else, it is vncerteine.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Notwithstanding sure it is, that in the daies of Gurguntius king of the Britons, the chiefe gouer|nour of Baion with foure brethren Spaniards, of the which two are said to be Hiberus and Hermion, not the sonnes (some thinke) of Gathelus (as Hector Boetius affirmeth) but some other perhaps that were descended from him, who vnderstanding that diuerse of the westerne Iles were emptie of inhabitants, as|sembling a great number of men, women, and chil|dren, imbarked with the same in thrée score great vessels, and directing their course westward, houe|red a long time in the sea about the Iles of Orke|ncie, vntill by good hap they met with Gurguntius Gurguntius. then returning from the conquest of Denmarke (as in the British historie it appéereth) whom they be|sought in consideration of their want of vittels and other necessaries, being such as they were not able longer to abide the seas, incumbred with a sort of women and children, to direct and appoint them to some place where to inhabit; promising to hold the same of him, and to become liege people to him and his heires for euer.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Gurguntius aduising himselfe hereof, remem|bred Gurguntius appointeth the Spani|ards fears in Ireland to liue vnder his subiection. with what trouble he held the Irish in subiecti|on, and conceiuing hope that those strangers should either subdue or wholie destroie that vnrulie genera|tion, tooke the othes of those Spaniards with hosta|ges; and furnishing them and their ships with all things néedfull, set them ouer into Ireland, where as|sisted with such Britons as Gurguntius had appoin|ted The arriuall of the Spa|niards in I|reland, Geffreic Mon. to go with them for their guids, they made a con|quest of the whole conntrie, & setled themselues in the same. Some write, that Ireland was before that pre|sent void of all inhabitants: but yet they agrée that these Spaniards were guided thither by the Bri|tons, & that vnder such conditions as before is reci|ted. So that it appéereth the kings of this our Britain had an elder right to the realme of Ireland, than by the conquest of Henrie the second, which title they e|uer mainteined, and sometimes preuailed in pursu|ing thereof, as in the daies of king Arthur, to whom the Irish (as in some histories is remembred) ac|knowledged The Irish were subiect to K. Arthur. Westchester. their due subiection with paiement of their tribute, and making their appéerance at the ci|tie called in the British toong Caer Lheon. Where|vnto when their [...]rée assent, the submission of their princes with lawfull conquest and prescription are adioined, an inuincible title must néeds be inforced.