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.

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Gregorie king of Scots ſub|dueth Ireland.

875.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thys Gregorie lyeth buryed in one of the out Iſles called Iona, or Colmekyll, where they ſpeake naturally Iriſhe: and therefore ſome of the Scottes woulde ſeeme to make the conqueſt of Henry the ſeconde in Irelande, a re [...]leyng from the righte inheritours, although they con|feſſe they can not tell howe they came from the poſſeſſion of it, otherwyſe than by forging a tale that they willingly forewent it, as reaping leſſe by reteyning it, than they layde foorthe, and ſo not able to diſcharge that whiche was to bee de|frayed aboute the keeping of it, they gaue it o|uer, perſwading themſelues, that the Kyngs of Englande haue gayned little or nothyng by the hauyng of Irelande. And yet in the tyme whyleſt ſyr Henry Sydney was gouernor there,Sir Henry Sydney. when the Countie of Vlſter was auouched to belong to the Crowne, it was proued in open Parliament, that there armies of that Erledom, in the dayes of Edwarde the thirde were recke|ned, and founde to amounte vnto the ſumme of xxxj. thouſande markes yearely, the ſame being but a fyfte parte of Irelande: ſo that if thinges were well looked vnto, and ſuche enprouemente made as mighte bee; Irelande woulde ſuffice to beare the neceſſarie charges, and yelde no ſmall ſurpluſage vnto the Princes co [...]fers.