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ter Stewart, great ftewart of Scotland, and of 



Mary, daughter of king Robert Bruce, fucceeded 



his uncle, and reigned twenty years. He had 



n fucceflbrs of his own family , and thefc 



<j kings of the houfe of Stewart bring the 



Scotch hiftory down to 1603, when James VI. 



(and the Firft of England) fucceeded Elizabeth 



queen of England, and united the two kingdoms 



which compofe Great Britain. 



The Hiftory of Ireland. If we are to believe 

 the Irifh hiftorians, there were kings of this 

 country more than 1500 years before the birth 

 of Chrift, and they mention one of them, 

 named Slanius, who reigned in the year of the 

 world 2448. They fay alfo, that this country 

 was divided into five governments, each of which 

 had a king , and that, over thele five kings, 

 there was one who was luprcme, and bore the 

 title of King of Kings. There is, however, very 

 little appearance of truth in the Irifh hiftory, till 

 about the year of Chrift 420, when a prince 

 named Loegarius reigned in Ireland. Hiftory 

 fays that his wife and children embraced Chrii- 

 tianity, but that he himfelf remained in his infi- 

 delity, and that he was killed by a clap of thun- 

 der, after having reigned 30 years. This king 

 had forty-feven luccefibrs, who, with him, filled 

 the throne of Ireland for 732 years , that is, to 

 1162, when this kingdom pafied under 

 dominion of the Englifli. The forty-eighth 

 and Kill king of Ireland was named i 

 Henry VIII. was the firft Englifh monarch who 



took 



