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A critical essay on the ancient inhabitants of the northern parts of Britain, or Scotland. Containing an account of the Romans, of the Britains betwixt the walls, of the Caledonians or Picts, and particularly of the Scots. With an appendix of ancient MS. pieces / By Thomas Innes, M.A.

  • Thomas Innes
Date:
1729
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Credit: A critical essay on the ancient inhabitants of the northern parts of Britain, or Scotland. Containing an account of the Romans, of the Britains betwixt the walls, of the Caledonians or Picts, and particularly of the Scots. With an appendix of ancient MS. pieces / By Thomas Innes, M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    own, call’d Regnum Cambrenfe, or Cumbrenfe, ex- tending on the weftern coaft from Dunbritton and the northern wall, to the fouthern wall in Nor- thumberland; and that the chief feat of it was that impregnable rock, or caftle, call’d Alcluyd, Areclud, Petra Cloithe, the fame that is now call’d Dunbritton from them. (a) JOCELINE, who wrote in thé twelfth age the life of St. Kentegern, or St. Mungo, dedix cated to Foceline, bilhop of Gla/go, (who died _Z. D. 1199) calls thefe poffeffions of the Britains in the welt of Scotland, Regnum Cambrenfe, and fays this _ kingdom, in former times, was extended from the Northumbrian wall to the Scotifh fea of Forth, or Clyde; that is, from the fouthern wall to the northern : and what the preface to the ancien¢ (6) chartulary of Gla/go hath of the pane that fee, infinuates the fame. (a) Diocefis vero epifcopatus ejus [S. Kentégerni] fecun- dum limites Cambrenfis regni extendebatur; quod utique regnum ficut vallum quondam a Severo principe a mari, ufs que ad mare .... & ufque ad flumen Fordenfe pertingit, &c. Joc. vita EP §. Kentegerni, MS. Bibl. Cotton. Vitell. D. VIII. (6) In Cumbria itaque regione quadam inter Angliam & Scotiam fita; fide catholica in illis climatibus exuberante & propagante ; domeftici fidei ac proceres regni cum rege pro- ‘tricis, ecclefiam Glafguenfem, fedem fcilicet pontificalem Cumbrenfis regionis, fundaverunt, Przfatio Chartul. Glafg. five inquifitio de poffeffionibus ecclefiz Glafg, Fol, 1°. MS. in collegio Scotor, Parif THAT
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