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" aliquot aetates in Hibcrniam rediiffe, atque " denuo duce 



" Rheutharo in Britanniam reverfos. Poft, etiam, regnante 



" Fergufio Secundo, magna auxilia Scotoruni Hibernicoruni 



" miffa quibus fedes in Gallovidia funt datae." Buck. Lib. 2. 



John Major, a more antient writer than Buchanan, admits 

 the firfl; fettlement of the Scots in Britain to have been under 

 Rheuda, but is guilty of fo many anachronifms in his account as 

 not to deferve a quotation from him 'till he comes to their 

 difperfion by Maximus, which he thus relates : " Anno ab Orbe 

 " redempto 396, tempore Honorii & Arcadii Imperatorum, in 

 " Britanniam Scoti difperfi redierunt, poftquam quadraginta 

 " tribus Annis exularant : & hoc partim Pidorum invocatione, 

 " qui Britonum tributis attaediati fuas terras pro magna parte 

 " Pidorum opere receperunt & faedus novum omni odio depofito 

 " Scoti cum Pidis renovarunt ; verbi Salluftiani memores, con- 

 " cordia parvas res crefcunt, difcordia maximse dilabuntur." 



Geoffry of Monmouth, a writer of the eleventh century, 

 thus fpeaks of the return of the Scots after Maximus left Britain 

 (whom he calls Maximianus) : " nefandi Pidorum & Hunno- 

 " rum duces Guanius et Melga qui partibus Gratiani & Valentl- 

 " niani favebant, cum didiciffent Infulam Britanniae ab omni 

 " armato milite vacuatam, iter feftinatum verfus Illam duxe- 

 " runt, affociatifque fibi coUateralibus Jfifiilis, in Albaniam appli- 

 " cuerunt: agmine igitur fado invaferunt regnum quod rec- 

 " tore et defenfore carebat, vulgus irrationabile casdentes; ad- 

 " duxerat enim fecum Maximianus omnes bellicofos juvenes 



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