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
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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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    iei aia |o Ae AAT ECT AES d m —— & ra ee in his Geographie to Zedezjcus Pius the Emperour rie of Trinitie Colledge:in Oxford. » 50: 20 2000720 Butfeeing that Scotland it felfe hath of her owne people fuch % might verie well: »enfétehrtheiebéginningftomthe inmoft records of Antiquitie, and thereby beft of all advance the glorie of their Countrey, in cafe they would wholly fet their minds, and beftow theincarefull diligence for a time inthis argument; I willpoint only with m fingertothefountaines, from whence haply they may draw the truth; andlaybefore them certaine obfervations, which I woüld wifh them tomarke, and confider more diligently : for, my felfe willin this matter play the Scepticke, and affirmenothing. Andfirft, touching their originall; and then, of the place from whence they remoo- B. Irelandthe Ved, and came over into Ireland. For, certainely knowen itis, that out of Ireland, — maiveCoun. an Ile inhabited in oldtime by Britans, as fhall in due place be prooved, they pafled E hii the — into Britain, and whattime asthey were firft known unto writers by thisname,feated they were inIreland. For, Claudian the Poet hath written of their irruptions into Britaine, inthefe verfes : , whichis tobefcene in the Libra. Aj Totam cum Scotus Hibernem - Movit, e infeffo []umavit remige Thetis: What time the Scots all Ireland ftir d offenfive armes to take, sind with maine ftroke of enemies ores, the fea much fome did make; JioAlo in another placé; med Alarbes, for that they be Arabians: the Infh, who call themfelves Erinach, are E *Welchmen. by out * Britansnamed Gwidhil: confidering alfo, that aswell thofe Iifh, andthefe — *Wechmen, Our * Britans, gave no other name tous Englifh men, than Safjons, becaufe wee are | defcended from the Saxons; I would have the learned Scotifh men firft to confider, whether they might not bee fo called of theirneighbours, as one would fay, Scythe. For, eyen as the Flemings and other Netherlanders, expreffe by this one word, Scut- ten, both the Scythians and Scots; fo it hath been obferved out of our Britifh writers, that they named both Scythians and Scots,?-Scot. Ninnius alfo exprefly calleth the Britans that inhabite Ireland, Scythians : and the narrow fea, thorow which they paf- fcd over out of Ireland into Britaine, Gildasnameth, Yallem Scythicam, that is, The Scythian Vale. Forfo hath the copie printed in Paris, where others without all fenfe E read, StythicamVallem. Moxeover,King Alfred, who feven hundred yeeres paft tran- flated the Hiftorie of Orofius into the Englifh-Saxon tongue, turned [ Scofos] into [ Scyttan| and our Countrey-men, who dwell next to Scotland, ufe to call them,not iMt by thenameof Scots, but Scyttes, and Scettes. For, like as (Walfingham is mine aus ae thor) the fame people be called Gere, Getici, Gothi Gothic ; fo, from one and thefame | ». enginall, Falla Scythica,
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