Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus it ſeemeth that certaynely the Spany|ardes of the north partes of Spayne, inhabiting the countreys about Biſkeye and Galicia, came and peopled Ireland (as both their owne hiſtories and the Britiſhe do wholly agree) but frõ whence they came firſte to inhabite thoſe countreyes of Spayne, verily I haue not otherwiſe to auouch: For no other writers that I can remember, but (ſuch as haue regiſtred the Scottiſh Chronicles) make mencion of the commyng thither of Ga|thelus with his wyfe Scota and their people, in manner (as by the ſayde Chronicles is pre|tended.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But nowe to oure purpoſe: An hundred and thirtie chief kings are reckned of this nation from Hermion to Laogirius, the ſonne of Nealus Magnus, in whoſe tyme that holye eſteemed man Patrike conuerted them to Chriſtianitie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But nowe in the meane tyme whyleſt the Iriſhmenne lyued in ſome tollerable order and reſte vnder their ſeuerall kings, one Rodorike a Scythian Prince with a ſmall companye of EEBO page image 6 men, being weather driuen rounde about the coaſts of Britayn, was by chaunce caſt vpon [figure appears here on page 6] the ſhore of Irelande.