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" cum illis Principes & Reguli. Reliqui, relidis prasdiis, Hofti- 



" bus Servire nolentes, eligerunt potius in terram alienam velut 



" advense degentes, quam propria fubditi fervire continua fer- 



" vitute : Ethac quoque Regis frater cum Filio Suo Erth, aliis 



" que pluribus Hiberniam petiit. Infulas itaque quidam petentes 



" per omne tempus excidii latebant, praster qua* omne regnum 



" circa annum 360 amiferunt." 



Here then we fee the Scottiih Dynafty completely expelled 

 from Britain, and difperfed, fome into Ireland from whence they 

 came, and fome to other nations. Their return into Britain 

 was about forty years after. John Major places it thirty-fix 

 years, though he is too inaccurate to be depended on. " Anno 

 " ab orbe redempto 396 tempore Arcadii et Honorii Impera- 

 " torum Scotos difperfos in Britanniam rediifi"e conftat," &c. 



From a comparifon of all thefe accounts, however they may 

 differ in leffer circumftances, thefe fads are to be colledled : — 

 That a colony of Scots from Ireland had fettled in Caledonia ; 

 that they had given umbrage to the Romans in Britain, by their 

 hoftilities .againft the province in conjundion with the Irifh, the 

 Pids, and other nations. That they were attacked by the Ro- 

 mans, defeated, and forced to abandon Britain. That on Maxi- 

 mus leaving Britain without defence they took advantage of his 

 abfence, and made frefh attempts to reinftate themfelves. That 

 they were again chaftifed by Gratianus Municeps ; but on his 

 being affaffinated, they returned in full force, with the affiftance 

 of the Irifh and Pi£ls, laid wafte and occupied the country from 



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