Compare 1587 edition: 1 But for the fyrſte comming as well of the Pictes as Scottes, (whome hee maketh inha|bitauntes within thys Iſle ſo long before) ey|ther the name of the one nation or the other is remembred to haue had any gouernement h [...]re, by any auncient or approued writer. I cannot perſwade my ſelfe, that eyther Scottes or Pic|tes hadde any ſettled ſeates within the boundes of this Ile of Britayne, till after the birthe of oure Sauiour: but that rather the Scottes, as yet inhabiting in Irelande, and in the weſterne Iſles called by the Romayne writers Hebrides, and the Pights, in the Iſles of Orkneye called in Latin Orchades, dyd vſe to make often inuaſi|ons vppon the Britons, dwelling vpon the coa|ſtes that flye neere to the ſea ſyde ouer againſte thoſe Iſles.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 From whence they comming ouer in ſuche veſſells or boates, as the Fiſhermenne yet vſe, at length the Pights firſt aboute the yeare of our Lord .290. as Humf. Llhuyd hath noted,See more here|of in England. entred nerally into Cathneſſe, and other the north par|tes of Britaine, where they ſettled them ſelues,The Pictes vvhen they firſt inhabited Britayn. and remoued the Britons that there inhabited before that time: and ſhortely the Scottes like|wiſe came ouer and got ſeates in the weſt partes ouer againſte the Northe of Irelande,The Scottes in Britayne. and in thoſe Weſtern Iles, which Iles they firſt got in|to their poſſeſſion. And in this ſorte thoſe nations Pightes and Scottes came firſt to inhabite here in this our Iſle of Britayn,Hũfrey Llhuyd as the ſayd Humfrey Llhuyd not without aduiſed coniectures groun|ded vpon good reaſon and ſufficient authoritie to leade him ſo to eſteeme, hath written in his ſhort commentaries of the deſcription of Britayn.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 And verily I thinke we maye more ſafely be|leue that whiche he anoucheth in this behalf than that which Hector Boetius ſetteth down, ſith for any thing I can perceiue, his authorities beyng no ſuche warrant with them, but wee may with good reaſon ſuſpecte them. But for the man him|ſelfe, euen as he hath verie orderly, and with no leſſe cunning than eloquence, ſet downe dyuers thinges incredible, and reported ſome other con|trarie to the truth of the hiſtorie, for the glorie of his nation, as we may take it, ſo in his excuſe it may be alledged,Geffrey Mon|mouth the trã|ſlater not the authour of the British hiſtory. that hee was not the Authour of thoſe matters, but wrote what hee founde in Cambell, Veremounde, Cornelius Hiber [...]|ſis, and ſuche other in lyke caſe, as Geffreye of Monmouth wrote what hee founde in olde aunciente Britiſhe monumentes, and was not the deuyſer: him ſelfe (as ſome haue ſuſpected) of ſuche thinges as in hys Booke are by hym ex|preſſed.