Britain, or a chorographicall description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Ilands adioyning, out of the depth of antiqvitie : beavtified with mappes of the severall Shires of England / written first in Latine by William Camden ; Translated newly into English by Philémon Holland.

William Camden

Date:: 1610

Credit: Britain, or a chorographicall description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Ilands adioyning, out of the depth of antiqvitie : beavtified with mappes of the severall Shires of England / written first in Latine by William Camden ; Translated newly into English by Philémon Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Allifhi men inBritaine, whereasinthofe daiesthe names of Enegli(h, and;French were not fo much as heard of, either in the one or the other countrey, as who,many ages after, cameinto the fe Regions. (to i iba | That thePi&ones of Gaule;and our Pi&s were both one Nation, I datenot with: piaones; Jeannes Picardus avouch feeingthe name ofthe Pi&ones in Gaule was even in C2: fars time verie rife and much fpoken of, and for that our Piéts were never called Di-! ones: yet am Inotignorantjhowin one onely place of the Panegyrift among all the: reft, throughthe negligence of the copier; there was foiftedin Picfonum, in ttead of Pickorume .:a pay | 11931501 | ; MN AGI ON E d Mong the people of Britaine, after Pi&ts, the S.cot1sx nation by: Zi good right challenge the next place: concerning whom, before T: {peak ought, forfeare left evill willers and frowardly peevifh,(hould | calumnioufly mifconftrue thofe allegations;which IL fimply,ingenu- GS} oufly, and in all honeft meaning, fhall heere cite out-of ancient wri- ters as touching Scots, I muft certifie the Reader before hand, that C tverie particular hath reference to the old; true, and naturall Scots onely : whofe of-{pring are thofe Scots {peaking Irifh;which inhabite all the VVeft partof thekirig- dome of Scotland, now fo called, and theTlands adjoyning thereto, and who now a- daies be termed Hi¢h-land men, For, the reftwhich ate of civill behaviour, and bee {eated in the Eaftpart therof albeit they beare now the name of Scotifh-mensyet are they nothing leffe than Scots, but defcended from the very fame Germane original, that we Englifh men are. And this, neither can they chufe but confeffe; nor we but acknowledge,being as they are,termed by thofe abovefaid;High-land m en, Sa/fones, as well as we ; and ufing as they doe the fame language with us, to wit, the Englifh- . Saxon, different onely in Diale&, a moft aflured argümentof one and the fame ori: D ginall.In which regatrd,fo farre am I from working any difcredit unto them,that] have rather refpedtively loved them alwaies, as of the fame blond and ftocke, yea and ho- noured them too,even when the Kingdomes were divided:but now much more,fince it hath pleafed our almightie, and moftmercifull God, that wee growe united in oné bodie, under one moft Sacred head of the Empire, to the joy, happinefle, welfare; and fafetie, of both Nations, which I heartily with and pray for. The beginning and Etymologie of the Scotifh Nation, like as of other neighbor nationsround about, are fo full of obfcuritie, and lie over-fpred under the mift o£ darkeneffe, in {uch fort, that even Buchanan himfelfe, though otherwife a man of averiedeepe infight, either hath feene little therein, or feene to himfelfe alone : for E in this point he hath come fhort of all mens expectation. Wherupon have forborne alongtime totake this enterprize in hand, left with others in admiring fables, I fhould full fweetly pleafe my felfe, and fall into folly. Forja man m ay with as great probability derive the Scots pedigree from the Gods,as from Scota that füppofed and Sco eee counterfeit daughter of the Egyptian King Pharao, wedded (forfooth) unto Gaithe: Phares © Iis, theforine'‘of Cecrops founder of Athens. But, as this conceit arifing from the daughter. unskilfulneffe of Antiquitie, is of the better fort of ingenuous Scotsrejeéted : fo,that other opinion of later daies, drawen without all fenfe from a Greeke fountaine, that Scots fhould be fo called, as it were, ev», that is, Obfcure, Y vtterly difallow and condemnejas a device of envious perfons, to the flanderous reproch of a famous and p valiant Nation’ Neitherdoe all men like the derivation of our * Florilegus, namely, * ploweraa: that Scots were fo called, becaufe they came of a confufed migle-mangle of divers therer, the take their name in their owne proper tongue of their painted bodies, for that they ave war= Lib.g.cap.r, ked with fharpe yron pricks, and inke, and fo receive the print of fundry fhapes. | NNbich alfo Rabanus Maurus, in the very fame words ( doubtleffe out of him) doth teftifie do es in a te LM cte ctm

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