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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.
Of Alpe, or Albe, signifying hill, or high place, you have the in-dwellers thereof sometimes named Albani, as in Asia, Dalmatia, Italy, and North Britannia; and their Country Albania, sometimes Albici, Albigois in Languedoc, and their Country Albium, or Albi, in vulgar language, sometimes Albini, or Alpini, and Albienses, as the in-dwellers of our Albion, who to this day call themselves as they have done of old, &c. which name is one and the same with Brigantes. Here let us remark, That as the Provincials or In-dwellers of Britannia superior, subject to the Romans, are ordinarily called by the Writers Britons; so the others, benorth the Empire, have been called by the Writers Britanni, peregrini, & transmarini, strangers, and beyond-Sea-men, as if they had been of another Island. And truly, if it were not for the Strait betwixt the Rivers afore-named, which did serve for Border unto them, they were in another Island. Hence England is said to be inter quatuor maria.
Of Alpe, or Albe, signifying hill, or high place, you have the in-dwellers thereof sometimes named Albani, as in Asia, Dalmatia, Italy, and North Britannia; and their Countrey Albania, sometimes Albici, Albigois in Languedock, and their Countrey Albium, or Albi, in vulgar language, sometimes Albini, or Alpini, and Albienses, as the in-dwellers of our Albion, who to this day call themselves as they have done of old, &c. which name is one and the same with Brigantes. Here let us remark, That as the Provincialls or In-dwellers of Britannia superiour, subject to the Romans, are ordinarily called by the Writers Britones; so the others, benorth the Empire, have been called by the Writers Britanni, peregrini, & transmarini, strangers, and beyond-Sea-men, as if they had been of another Island. And truely, if it were not for the Strait betwixt the Rivers afore-named, which did serve for Border unto them, they were in another Island. Hence England is said to be inter quatuor maria.
1Ptolomeis, Tacitus, and Seneca tell us, That the Brigantes inhabited Albion, which when they writ, was that part of the Island beyond the Roman Empire. Therefore the Brigantes were then Albini, or Albani.