A47584:78
The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland
The history of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.The historie of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.
London: printed by John Raworth for George Thomason and Octavian Pullen, 1644
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Last of all, the Romans having by their cunning divided the Brigantes and Picts; and having drawn the Picts on their side against the Brigantes, Albion was taken for that part of Britannia minor, beyond Clyde and Forth, which did not belong to the Picts; that is, the Northwest side of that hilly Continent, with the hilly Islands adjacent, where to this day dwelleth our Highlandmen, or Highlanders, who are the remnant ⟨image 19⟩of the ancient Brigantes. That the ancient name of a whole great Country, as this Island is, should be conserved in one corner, or a little portion thereof, may not seem strange, I have thought fit to tell you, That you have the like in our neighbour Country, of old called Gaul, now France; where the ancient name of Gaul, among the vulgar, is only conserved in a little Country lying about Sens, of old, Senones: this little Country is called Pays Gaulois, and is divided in Haute, & bass Gaule. So it was judiciously said by the Historiographer, The name of the Isle Albion is derived from Albe, and remains in Scotland, as it were in its Native Soil.1
Last of all, the Romans having by their cunning divided the Brigantes and Picts; and having drawn the Picts on their side against the Brigantes, Albion was taken for that part of Britannia minor, beyond Clyde and Forth, which did not belong to the Picts; that is, the Northwest side of that hillie Continent, with the hillie Islands adjacent, where to this day dwelleth our Highlandmen, or Highlanders, who are the remnant ⟨image 19⟩of the ancient Brigantes. That the ancient name of a whole great Countrey, as this Island is, should be conserved in one corner, or a little portion thereof, may not seem strange, I have thought fit to tell you, That you have the like in our neighbour Countrey, of old called Gaule, now France; where the ancient name of Gaule, among the vulgar, is onely conserved in a little Countrey lying about Sens, of old, Senones: this little Countrey is called Pays Gaulois, and is divided in Haute, & basse Gaule. So it was judiciously said by the Historiographer, The name of the Isle Albion is derived from Albe, and remains in Scotland, as it were in its Native Soyl.1