The Holinshed Texts (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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus the Scots a liuely, cruell, vnquiet, an|cient and victorious people, got place within this Iſle of Britayne, mixed firſt with Britons, ſe|condly with Pictes, thirdly and chiefly with the Iriſhe, whiche after this tyme lefte their name of Scots vnto thoſe in Britayne, and choſe rather to be called Iriſhe: and then came vp the diſtin|ction of the name, as Scotia maior for Irelande, Scotia minor, for the countreye inhabited by the Scots within Britayne.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But Cambrenſis ſayth,Giraldus Cam|brenſis. that the Scots chief|ly preuailed vnder the leading of .6. valiant gen|tlemen, ſonnes to Murious king of Vlſter, who in the time of Neale, ſurnamed the greate, that enioyed the Monarchie of Ireland, paſſing ouer into Scotlãd to ſuccour their coũtreymen there, at length tooke vp for themſelues certain parcels of ground, which their poſteritie were owners of in the time that Cambrenſis liued, to wit, about the yeare of our Lord .1200. who treateth here|of more largely in his Booke intitled Topogra|phia Britanniae. Sith which time they haue bene euer taken, reputed and named Scots, the Pic|tiſh nation beeing driuen into corners, albeit the mountaine partes and out Iles euen vnto thys day are inhabited with a wilde kinde of people called Redſhankes, eſteemed by ſome to be min|gled of Scots and Pictes.