Compare 1587 edition: 1 This was in the .xlv. yeare after the Scots had beene dryuen forth of Albanie, and after the byrth of our Sauiour 424.

422. H.B

396. Io. Ma.

The 18. yeare of the Emperor Honorius H.B

755. H.B.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 All ſuche Caſtelles alſo and Fortreſſes as the Pictes helde within any of thoſe Countreys, which belonged vnto the Scottes, were ſurren|dred into theyr handes in peaceable wiſe: but the reſidue whiche the Romains kepte were earneſt|ly defended for a whyle, though at lẽgth through want of victuals & other neceſſaries, they lyke|wyſe were deliuered.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 If I ſhould here ſay what I thinke, and that mine opinion might paſſe for currant coyne, I would not ſticke to affyrme that either now firſt (or not long before their late ſuppoſed expulſion from hence) the Scottes ſettled themſelues to in|habite here within this Ile,When the Scottes firſt got certaine ſeates here in this Ile of Brytaine as ſome thinke. and that they had no certain ſeates in the ſame til then. But that com|ming either forth of Irelande, or frõ the weſterne iles wher they before inhabited, they vſed to make often inuaſions into this land, greatly moleſting as well the Brytaynes, the auncient inhabitants thereof, as the Romaines that then helde the Ile vnder their ſubiection. For I can neyther per|ſwade my ſelfe, nor wiſhe other to beleeue, that there was any ſuche continuaunce in ſucceſſion of kings, as their hiſtories doe mention, and as we haue here before ſet downe in following the ſame hiſtories, bycauſe wee will not willingly ſeeme to offer iniurie to their nation, which per|aduenture are otherwiſe perſwaded, & thinke the ſame ſucceſſion to be moſt true, where other per|chance may cõiecture (& not moued therto with|out good reaſon) that ſuche kings as in their hy|ſtories are auouched to raigne one after another here in this Ile, eyther raigned in Irelande, or in the oute Iles, and that verily not ſucceſſiuely, but diuerſe of them at one ſeaſon, and in diuerſe places. Which miſtaking of the courſe of hyſto|ries hath bredde errours, not onely among the Scottiſh wryters, but euen among ſome of the Brytiſhe and Engliſhe writers alſo, as to the learned and well aduiſed readers it may plainly appeare. And as for Galde, and ſome other hap|pely, which they take to be kings of Scottes, al|thoughe they raigned in that parte of this Ile which afterwardes was poſſeſſed by Scots, and after them named Scotland, yet were they mere Brytaynes, and had little to do with Scottes, except perchaunce we may thinke that they helde the out Iles in ſubiection, where the Scots were then inhabiting, farre longer time perhaps (before their ſettling in Brytayne) than theyr hyſtories EEBO page image 97 make mention.