[1] [figure appears here on page 1] THis Iaphet third ſon of Noe, who is of ſome called Ia|petus, and of o|ther, Atlas M [...]|rus (bycauſe hee departed this life in Man [...]itania) was the firſte as Bodinus affyr|meth by the authoritie and cõſe [...]t of the Hebrue Greke & latin writers) that peopled the coũtreys. of Europe,Iohannes Bo|dinus ad ſac. [...]iſt. cogn. which afterward he deuided among his ſonnes of the which Tubal (as Tarapha af|firmeth) obteined the kingdom of Spain.Franciſcus Tarapha. Gomer had dominion ouer the Italians, and as Berdſus and diuers other authors agree, Samothes was the founder of the kingdom of Celtica, which cõ|teined in it as [...]ale witneſſeth) a great parte of Europe, but ſpecially thoſe coũtreys, which now are knowne by ye names of Galli [...] & Britannia.
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[page 2] Thus was this Ilande inhabited and people [...] within .200.Britayn inha|bited shortly after the
floud. yeres after the floud by the children of Iaphet the ſonne
of Noe: and this is not on|ly proued by Annius, writing vpõ Beroſus, but
alſo confirmed by Moyſes in the ſcripture, where he writeth, that of the
ofſpring of Iaphet, the yles of the Gentils (wherof Britayn is one) were
ſor|ted into regions in the tyme of Phaleg, the ſon of Hiber,
Theophilus e|piſcop. Antio|chi. ad Antol. lib. 2. The vvordes of Theophilus a doctor of the church [...], vvho liued An. Chri|ſti. 160.
[1] Theſe things conſidered, Gildas the Briton had great reaſon to think that this countrey had bin inhabited from the beginning: and Polydore Vergil was with no leſſe cõſideration hereby in|forced to cõfeſſe that the Ile of Britayne had re|ceiued inhabitauntes forthwith after the floud.