Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Héereby it should séeme that the Picts and Irish did disquiet the Britons, before the comming of Iu|lius Cesar into this Ile of Britaine. But whether [...]ée Diodorus Siculus lib. 6. cap. 9 who [...] they should inhabit a portion of Britaine. they inhabited at that time in some part of Ireland, or in some of the out Iles by Scotland, either in anie part of Germanie, or Scandinauia; or else whether they were alreadie setteled in the furthest parts of Scotland, as in Cathnesse, towards Dungesbie head: we haue not to affirme, other than that which in Scotland we haue written, in following Hector Bo|etius, whose opinion how farre it is to be suspected in matters of antiquitie, I leaue to the consideration Hect. Boctius. of others. But for the first comming as well of the Picts as Scots (whom he maketh inhabitants with|in this Ile so long before) either the name of the one nation or the other is remembred to haue had anie gouernement heere, by anie ancient or approoued writer. I cannot persuade my selfe, that either Scots or Picts had anie setteled seats within the bounds of this Ile of Britaine, till after the birth of our sauiour: but that rather the Scots, as yet inha|biting in Ireland, and in the westerne Iles called by the Romane writers Hebrides, and the Picts, in the Iles of Orkneie called in Latine Orchades, did vse to make often inuasions vpon the Britons, dwelling vpon the coasts that lie néere to the sea side ouer a|gainst those Iles.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 From whense they comming ouer in such vessels or boats, as the fishermen doo yet vse, at length the Picts first about the yere of our Lord 290, as Hum|freie Lhuid hath noted, entred generallie into Cath|nesse, and other the north parts of Britaine, where See more heerco [...] in England. they setteled themselues, and remooued the Britons that there inhabited before that time: and shortlie the Scots likewise came ouer and got seats in the [...]he Picts when they first inhabited Britaine. west parts ouer against the north of Ireland, and in those westerne Iles, which Iles they first got into their possession. And in this sort those nations Picts and Scots came first to inhabit héere in this our Ile The Scots in Britaine of Britaine, as the said Humfreie Lhuid, not without aduised coniectures grounded vpon good reason and sufficient authoritie to lead him so to estéeme, hath Hum. Lhuid. written in his short commentaries of the descripti|on of Britaine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 And verelie I thinke we may more safelie beléeue that which he auoucheth in this behalfe, than that which Hector Boetius setteth downe, sith for anie thing I can perceiue, his authorities bring no such warrant with them, but we may with good reason suspect them. But for the man himselfe, euen as he hath verie orderlie, and with no lesse cunning than eloquence set downe diuerse things incredible, and reported some other contrarie to the truth of the hi|storie for the glorie of his nation, as we may take it; so in his excuse it may be alledged, that he was not the author of those matters, but wrote what he found in Cambell, Veremound, Cornelius Hibernensis, Gefferie Mon|mouth the translator not the author of the British historie. and such other, in like case as Gefferie of Monmouth wrote what he found in old ancient British monu|ments, & was not the deuiser himselfe (as some haue suspected) of such things as in his booke are by him ex|pressed. But now to returne to the Picts. It may be that they came at seuerall times in like manner as The doubt of the time of the comming of Picts and Scots into Britaine. Ferguse king of Scots. The marble stone. the Scots did out of Ireland, of whome the first is remembred to be Ferguse, the son of Ferqubard, a man right skilfull in blasoning of armorie, himselfe bare a lion gules in a field of gold. The marble stone wherof in the Scotish historie is mentioned, brought into Ireland by Simon Brechus, and kept till those daies as a pretious iewell, this Ferguse obteined towards the prospering of his iourneie: for that it was thought, who so had the same in possession, could not but obteine souereigntie and rule ouer others as a king, namelie those of the Scotish nation. This stone Ferguse bringing into Scotland, left it there. But although that Ferguse be put in ranke among those Scotish kings that should reigne in Britaine, yet he bare small rule there, & was diuers times bea|ten backe into Ireland, where finallie he was drow|ned by misfortune in the créeke of Knockfergus.