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Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Rothſay had not beene long in thoſe Iſles, but that hearing of his fathers deceaſſe, he returned into Irelande to ſuccede in his place. Where the Scottiſh men p [...]eyuing the fertilitie of the Iſles, and how the ſame ſerued wel for the breeding of cattel, became ſo deſirous to inhabite the ſame, that they went ouer thither dayly in|greate numbers, with their wiues, children, and whole families, ſo that within a [...]horte time, they multiplied in ſuch wiſe, that the Iſles were not large ynough to finde them ſuſtenauce,The Scottes inhabite the maine lande of Scotlande. by reaſon wherof diuerſe companies of them got them ouer into the maine lande of the North part of this our Bry [...]taine, called as then Al|bion, where they firſt inhabited a waſte and de|ſert portion thereof, lying to waſte [...] weſt ne|uer againſt the foreremembred Iſles, by [...]he [...] al|readie inhabited. Anno mundi. 338 [...]. 4617. H.B. They inhabite the countrey called Arguile.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 That part where they firſt beganne to [...] themſelues, they named Arguel [...]lia, after the name of their firſt Captain and guide Gathelus, but the Inhabitantes at this day call it Arguyle.They make lawes and or|dinances.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 At their first comming bycause they perceyued they coulde not liue without lawes and ciuil gouernement they seuered themselues into tribes, or as it were into hundreds, or weapentakes, euery of the same hauing a speciall gouernour to see their lawes ministred, Gouernours had in reue|rence. and iustice mainteyned: whiche gouernours were had in suche reuerence, that they were as much afrayde to sweare by the name of any one of them, as they were by the Goddes.

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