Compare 1587 edition: 1 From whence they comming ouer in ſuche veſſells or boates, as the Fiſhermenne yet vſe, at length the Pights firſt aboute the yeare of our Lord .290. as Humf. Llhuyd hath noted,See more here|of in England. entred nerally into Cathneſſe, and other the north par|tes of Britaine, where they ſettled them ſelues,The Pictes vvhen they firſt inhabited Britayn. and remoued the Britons that there inhabited before that time: and ſhortely the Scottes like|wiſe came ouer and got ſeates in the weſt partes ouer againſte the Northe of Irelande,The Scottes in Britayne. and in thoſe Weſtern Iles, which Iles they firſt got in|to their poſſeſſion. And in this ſorte thoſe nations Pightes and Scottes came firſt to inhabite here in this our Iſle of Britayn,Hũfrey Llhuyd as the ſayd Humfrey Llhuyd not without aduiſed coniectures groun|ded vpon good reaſon and ſufficient authoritie to leade him ſo to eſteeme, hath written in his ſhort commentaries of the deſcription of Britayn.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 And verily I thinke we maye more ſafely be|leue that whiche he anoucheth in this behalf than that which Hector Boetius ſetteth down, ſith for any thing I can perceiue, his authorities beyng no ſuche warrant with them, but wee may with good reaſon ſuſpecte them. But for the man him|ſelfe, euen as he hath verie orderly, and with no leſſe cunning than eloquence, ſet downe dyuers thinges incredible, and reported ſome other con|trarie to the truth of the hiſtorie, for the glorie of his nation, as we may take it, ſo in his excuſe it may be alledged,Geffrey Mon|mouth the trã|ſlater not the authour of the British hiſtory. that hee was not the Authour of thoſe matters, but wrote what hee founde in Cambell, Veremounde, Cornelius Hiber [...]|ſis, and ſuche other in lyke caſe, as Geffreye of Monmouth wrote what hee founde in olde aunciente Britiſhe monumentes, and was not the deuyſer: him ſelfe (as ſome haue ſuſpected) of ſuche thinges as in hys Booke are by hym ex|preſſed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But now to returne to the Pictes.The doubt of the tyme of the cõming of Picts & Scots into Britayne. It may be that they came at ſeuerall tymes in like manner as the Scottes didde out of Irelande, of whome the fyrſte is remembred to be Ferguſe, the ſonne EEBO page image 8 of Ferquhard,Ferguſe kyng of Scots. a man right ſkilful in blaſon of armorie, hee himſelfe bare a Lion gules in a field of gold.The marble ſtone. The marble ſtone wherof in the Scottiſhe hiſtorie is mencioned, brought into Ireland by Symon Brechus, and kepte tyll thoſe dayes as a precious iewell, this Ferguſe obteyned towardes the proſpering of his iour|ney, for that it was thoughte, who ſo had the ſame in poſſeſſion, coulde not but obteyne ſo|uerayntie and rule ouer others as a king, na|mely thoſe of the Scottiſhe nation.