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You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 54 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 8)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This hounde being ſtollen by a Picte, was cauſe of the breache of peace,Stryfe about a dogge. ſo that cruell warres therof enſued (as in the Scottiſh hiſto|rie more at large appeareth. But where ſome write, that Eugenius ſhoulde reigne ouer the Scottes when this quarell fell out for ſtea|ling of this hound, Hector Boetius ſayeth, it was in king Crathlinths dayes.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 55 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 8)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer it ſhould ſeme by that which the ſame Boetius writeth, that the hound or grei|hound for the which this trouble roſe, was not fetched ſo far as out of Grecia, but rather bred in Scotland: notwithſtãding bicauſe the La|tiniſts call ſuch kinde of dogs Moloſsi, for that the firſt generation of them, or the like, came from a citie of Gretia called Moloſſe, it may be, that ſome haue thoughte, that this grey|hounde came from thence, for that he was ſo called after the name of that place frõ whence the breed of him firſt came. But to returne to the hiſtorie.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 56 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 8)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After the Scottes and Pictes had tugged togither a whyle,Carauſius a|greeth them. Anno Chriſt [...] 288. at lengthe one Carauſius a Bryton, labored a frendſhip betwixt them, and bringing his purpoſe to paſſe, perſwaded them to lend him their help to expulſe the Ro|maines out of Britayne: but his happe was ſhortly after to be ſlayne by the Romaine ca|pitayne Alectus. And ſo newe ſturres were in hand betwixt the Britons and Romaines, the Scottes and Pictes for the moſt parte taking parte with the Britons, till at length. Maxi|mus the Romayne lieutenant founde meanes to ſet the Scots and Picts at variance, & ioy|ning with the Picts in league, vſed their ayde EEBO page image 6 againſt the Scots, whome he ſo earneſlly purſu|ed with all the power he might make, that in the end they were vtterly expulſed out of all the coa|ſtes of Britayne,

The Scots ex|pulſed. See more of this matter in Scotlande.

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ſo that they fledde ſome into one parte, ſomme into an other, but the moſte number gotte them ouer into Irelande, and the Iles, wher they remained for the ſpace of .43. yeares, and then at length returned thither, vn|der the leading of their prince Ferguſe, being the ſecond of that name,The Picts roo|ted foorth by the ſcots. as they accompt him. From thencefoorth the Scots kepte ſuche foote in Bri|tayn, that they encroched vpon their neighbors, in ſuche wyſe as they waxed ſtronger than the Pictes, whom in the end they quite rooted foorth, and neſtled themſelues in their ſeates, althoughe nowe at their firſte retourne, they concluded a firme amitie with the ſame Pictes, that ioyg|ning theyr forces together, they might the better make head agaynſt bothe Romayns and Bry|tayns, whome they reputed as common enimies to them bothe.

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