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Iberniae, trajicientem inde ad stabiles in Albania sedes figendas (in Al- 

 bania, inquam, ejusve nllis reginnculis ; nam aliter se res babet de ex- 

 ordiis Scotorum Iberniae degentium in parvis insulis Hebridum,)'^' fuisse 

 quam post mortem S. Columbae-Killi nostratis, et aliquot annis post 

 exactmn sseculum Christianorum sextnm,! dnxerat Christianus religione 

 Vir l^obilis Yltoniensis et Regulus Ditionis Dalriada dictse in eadem 

 Yltonia, J yocatusqne Edan sive Aidanus, filius Grabriani sen Gaurani. Et 

 quamvistam ipse Aidanus cnm sua colonia quam eorum posteri incolentes 

 Albanise angulum ilium qui hodie audit Argil, aut Argathelia, per 

 aliquot annos ipsorum babitationis ibidem, vocarentur Scoti-Britannise ; 

 tamen neque tunc, neque multis sseculis post Eegiuncula Argil aut alia 

 ulla Albaniae pars induerat Scotia nomen, aut communitatem nominis 

 ejusdem cum Ibernia nostra : sed, ut dixi, nunquam ab uUis Autboribus 

 antiquis et florentibus ante sseculum decimum vel undecimum. Scotiae 

 appellatio (sive ut propria, sive ut communis) indita Albaniae, audita 

 fuit. 



^' Inter alia in tuis ad me literis, petis a me, 1° ut Selectorum meomm 

 (sic benevole vocas) quae in Germania et alibi coUegeram, saltem Brevi- 

 arium ad te mittam. Eespondeo, me, quantum memini, nihil fere ha- 

 buisse selectorum illorum, quod non dederim describendum duobus 

 nostratibus Vestri Ordinis S. Erancisci, quorum alter E. P. Patricius 

 Fleming (post factus, ut credo, Martyr a Suecis haereticis in Bohemia§) 

 qui cum socio multis diebus et hebdomadibus degebat in eadem Yrbe 

 mecum Metis in Lotharingia anno Cbristi 1627 vel 1628. Acdescrip- 

 ta omnia, redux inde tulit secum Lovanium, ubi R. Y% ut credo, in- 

 veniet, nisi jampridem fortasse invenerit. 2° petis, ut etiam ad te mittam 

 Catalogum Vitarum Sanctorum nostratium, quas vidisse me ais in Bib- 

 liotheca D. Jacobi Ussberi, Arcbiepiscopi Primatis Protestantium Iber- 

 niae. Eespondeo, me vocatum et ter coram convenisse per multas lioras 

 ilium D. Ussherum (qui et humanissime me excepit et sine fuco mecum 

 candideque egit, et abs se officiosissime me dimisit, et saepius coram 

 et per literas praeterea me invitavit in Bomum suam non ad convivium 

 modo (quod renui modeste) sed etiam ad cuncta Domus suae, etiam 



* Gall-Gaeidhel^ or Stranger-Irish, is the term generally used in Irish records to 

 denote the inhabitants of these Isles. Galloway also derives its name from this com- 

 bination. 



t White falls into a serious error here. The year 606 is that which is assigned by 

 the best authorities for the settlement of the Irish colony in South-western Scotland. — See 

 Adamnan's Columba (Irish Archseol. and Celtic Soc), p. 433. 



X Here again is a manifest blunder of White. Aidan was regulus of the British 

 Dalriada, and had no jurisdiction over the Irish territory of that name. He died in 606. 

 See p. 436 of the work last cited. 



§ Fleming was just settled as President of the Irish College at Prague, when Bohe- 

 mia was invaded by the Elector of Saxony, and Fleming was obliged to fly. In his 

 flight, he and his companion, Matthew Hoar, were attacked by seven peasants near the 

 village of Beneschow, and beaten to death. — See the narrative in the Collectanea, p. xii,, 

 and Colgan's Acta SS., Prsefatio ad Lectorem. — See also an abstract in the Ulster 

 Journal of Archaeology, vol. i., p. 255, where there is a notice of this writer and of his 

 work. 



