Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the Scots and Picts had tugged togither a while, at length one Carausius a Briton laboured a Carausius agreeth them. Anno Christi. 288 friendship betwixt them, and bringing his purpose to passe, persuaded them to lend him their helpe to expell the Romans out of Britaine: but his hap was shortlie after to be slaine by the Romane cap|teine Alectus. And so new sturs were in hand be|twixt the Britons and Romans, the Scots & Picts for the most part taking part with the Britons, till at length Maximus the Romane lieutenant found means to set the Scots and Picts at variance, and ioining with the Picts in league, vsed their aid against the Scots, whome he so earnestlie pursued with all the power he might make, that in the end they were vtterlie expelled out of all the coasts of The Scots expelled. See more of this matter in Scotland. 326 Britaine, so that they fled some into one part, some into another, but the most number got them ouer in|to Ireland, and the Iles, where they remained for the space of fourtie thrée yeares, and then at length re|turned thither, vnder the leading of their prince Fer|guse, being the second of that name, as they account him. From thensefoorth the Scots kept such foot in Britaine, that they incroched vpon their neighbors, in such wise as they waxed stronger than the Picts, whome in the end they quite rooted forth, and nestled themselues in their seats, although now at their first The Picts [...] foorth by the Scots. returne they concluded a firme amitie with the same Picts, that ioining their forces togither, they might the better make head against both Romans and Britons, whome they reputed as common eni|mies to them both.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Thus the Scots a liuelie, cruell, vnquiet, ancient and victorious people, got place within this Ile of Britaine, mixed first with Britons, secondlie with Picts, thirdlie and chieflie with the Irish, which after this time left their name of Scots vnto those in Bri|taine, and chose rather to be called Irish: and then came vp the distinction of the name, as Scotia maior for Ireland, Scotia minor for the countrie inhabited by the Scots within Britaine. But Cambrensis saith, that the Scots chieflie preuailed vnder the leading Giraldus Cambrensis. of six valiant gentlemen, sons to Muridus king of Ulster, who in the time of N [...]ale, surnamed the great that inioied the monarchie of Ireland, passing ouer into Scotland to succour their countriemen there, at length tooke vp for themselues certeine 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 hereof more largelie in his booke intituled Topographia Britanniae. Since which time they haue béene euer taken, reputed and named Scots, the Pictish nation being driuen into corners, albeit the mounteine parts and out Iles e|uen vnto this daie are inhabited with a wild kind of people called Red [...]hanks, estéemed by some to be mingled of Scots and Picts.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Scots write, that their king Eregorie the Gregorie king of Scots subdueth I|reland. [...]75 sonne of Dongall, who began his reigne in the yeare of our Lord 875, pretending a title to Ireland, as be|longing to him by right of lawfull succession, made a iourneie thither, and within a small time made a conquest of the countrie. This Gregorie lieth bu|ried in one of the out Iles called Iona, or Colme|kill, where they speake naturallie Irish: and there|fore some of the Scots would séeme to make the con|quest of Henrie the second in Ireland, a reuolting from the right inheritors: although they doo con|fesse they can not tell how they came from the posses|sion of it, otherwise than by forging a tale that they willinglie forewent it, as reaping lesse by reteining it, than they laid foorth, and so not able to discharge that which was to be defraied about the kéeping of it they gaue it ouer, persuading themselues that the kings of England haue gained little or nothing by the hauing of Ireland. And yet in the time whilest sir Henrie Sidneie was gouernour there, when the Sir [...] Sid [...]. countie of Ulster was auouched to belong vnto the crowne: it was prooued in open parlement, that the reuenues of that earldome, in the daies of Edward the third were reckoned, and found to amount vnto the summe of one and thirtie thousand marks yeare|lie, the same being but a fift part of Ireland: so that if things were well looked vnto, and such improue|ment made as might be, Ireland would suffice to beare the necessarie charges, and yéeld no small s [...]|plusage vnto the princes coffers.