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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.
John Fordone, in his Scoti Chronicon, writes, That the Scots came so far South as Humber, and possessed Lands there. Also ⟨image 19⟩the Isle of Man was for a long time under the Crown of Scotland; which Isle is as far South, as the Country about York, although it be Westward, and in the Sea. And these were the Brigantes we now have spoken of.1 The Brigantes, at their first coming into Albion, came, as we have said, without any certain or settled way of Government: but being grown to a considerable number or Body, they sent into Ireland for Fergus the first, to be their King; whose (with a new Colony) coming into Albion, is reckoned to be about Alexander the Great his time; that is, about three hundred years before the Birth of Christ.
Iohn Fordon, in his Scoti Chronicon, writes, That the Scots came so far South as Humber, and possessed Lands there. Also ⟨image 19⟩the Isle of Man was for a long time under the Crown of Scotland; which Isle is as far South, as the Countrey about Yorke, although it be Westward, and in the Sea. And these were the Brigantes we now have spoken of.1 The Brigantes, at their first coming into Albion, came, as we have said, without any certain or setled way of Government: but being grown to a considerable number or Body, they sent into Ireland for Fergus the first, to be their King; whose (with a new Colonie) coming into Albion, is reckoned to be about Alexander the Great his time; that is, about three hundred yeers before the Birth of Christ.
- 1Florente tum Imperio Romano Brigantes in Albium trajecerunt.
The Brigantes, alias, Albini, for a certain time, by some have been called Dalreudini (although this name did not last long) from the King Reuda,