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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But now as it falleth foorth in the historie. We haue thought good here to shew in what sort Ireland came to receiue the christian faith. We find in deed that immediatlie after Christes time, saint Iames Ireland in|stru [...]ed in the faith by saint Iames t [...] [...]|postle. the apostle, & other trauelling into these west parts, did first instruct the Irish people, and teach them the glad tidings of the gospell, so that diuerse amongst them euen then were christened, and beléeued, but not in such numbers (as may be thought) whereby it should be said, that the countrie was generallie conuerted. Notwithstanding, the Scotish chroni|cles a [...]ouch, that in the daies of their king Finc [...]|marke, who departed this life in the yeare of our re|demption thrée hundred fiftie and eight, Ireland was conuerted to the faith by this meanes.