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Compare 1587 edition: 1 In this meane time alſo,The Pictes came into Scotland, one of Germanie. the Pictes whiche were [...] people of Germanie, as moſt wri|ters do agree, came [...] alſo in [...] EEBO page image 6 part of Brytayne, which nowe is comprehended likewiſe within Scotlande.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Some ſay that they came forth of the hyther part of Scithia, and other there be whiche holde opinion, that they diſcended of the people named in olde time Agathirſi, whiche inhabited in a part of Sarmatia, & were called Pictes, bycauſe they vſed to paynt and colour theyr faces, or as ſome ſuppoſe, for that they vſed gay apparell of dyuerſe and ſundrie colours: but the ſame wry|ters generally confeſſe, that they firſt came into Germanie or hyther Scithia (that is to meane Denmarke) many yeares before they entred into Brytaine.Pictes came out of Den|marke.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Pictes came firſt into Orkney, chaunging their ſeates came into the maine lande of Scotlande, Pictlande, Firth.Truth it is that they firſt came out of Germa|nie, into the Iſles of Orkeney, and there inhabi|ting for a ſeaſon, feryed ouer into Catheneſe, whereof it came to paſſe, that the ſtreyte there at this preſent is called Pictland firth: and ſo in cõ|tinuance of time encreaſing in number, they paſ|ſed further into the lande, and got poſſeſſion of Roſſe, Murray land, Merne, and Anguſe, and after that, entring into Fiffe, and Lowthian, they droue ſuch Brytaynes from thence as inhabited there before, whiche were but a ſimple kinde of people, as thoſe that applyed nothing but onely nouriſhing and breeding of cattaile.

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