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(the Milesian Heremon ?), who succeeded him in Spain, and the other 

 Simon Breco (Simon Breac, King of Ireland, 483 years before Christ, 

 according to O'Plaherty ?), who, after the death of Emeco, passed over 

 into Ireland to succeed the latter; and with an army of his people he 

 colonized and governed Escozia, calling that country thus after the 

 daughter of Pharoah named Scoto;' all which fable we have elsewhere 

 exposed."^* 



The same author observes it was the Brigantines of Gallicia who sent 

 colonies in ancient times into England. But the country referred to was 

 then named Britain; and the probability is that the migrations from Gal- 

 licia into Ireland, though not specified, were intended to be included in 

 this notice. 



That in England (observes Huerta y Vega) Spaniards had esta- 

 blished colonies all writers agree, but from what province of Spain they 

 came there is a variety of opinions. Polydore Yirgil enters largely into 

 this subject (lib. v., Hist. AngL"). He says that in the time that Gur- 

 gundius reigned in England, who Avas the son of King Belinus, there 

 came into that island a certain Spanish captain, a native of Cantabria, 

 a man very learned in. all the sciences, who, being patronized by the 

 king, founded a university, and having given the king a daughter named 

 Chebrigia in marriage, in compliment to her, the name was given 

 to the university of Cantabrigia. And Polydore Yirgil adds, that this 

 Cantabrian captain was called Bartholomeo. (The Partholanus of Irish 

 Annals ?) 



''There is no doubt that Spaniards peopled England and Ireland, 

 as we are assured by Tacitus (in ' Yit. Agric.,' lib. ii., Annales), and 

 Seneca (in 'Lud Claud.'), and Ptolemy (lib. ii., cap. 2). 



But long previously to that period," the author observes else- 

 where, " there was Spanish colonization in Ireland, we know, on the 

 authority of Bionysius Alexandrinus (De Hesper), who affirmed the 

 fact, and that author was anterior to the time of the loss of Spain and 



the invasion of the Moors 



The time of the migration from Spain (following the great 

 drought) it is not easy to assign. We can only say it appears to 

 have been carried into execution by Gallicians. But this we can 

 assert, on the authority of Pomponius Mela, that the people called Ter- 

 ms inhabited the Cape Mungia (in Gallicia) and the adjacent coast, and 

 by those people the cape or promontory was named Yerna. In the most 

 ancient times, moreover, it is certain that the island of Ireland was so 

 called,, as by Orpheus (in 'Argon'), and by Aristotle likewise, ' Lib. de 

 Mun.,' cap. 3 ; and, as Thomas Walsingham also asserts (in Elor.), and 

 as Glaudian states (see 'Paneg. Consul Honorii,' lib. xxxiii.), in the ages 

 less ancient the Eomans gave it this name. Ptolemy mentions a river 

 of Ireland by the name Term. From these circumstances, as it is evi- 

 dent that Ireland had been peopled by Spaniards, we presume that 



* Huerta y Vega, "Annales de Galicia," p. 17. 



