An introduction to Mr. James Anderson's Diplomata Scotiæ. To which is [sic] added notes, taken from various authors, and original manuscripts / By Thomas Ruddiman.

  • Thomas Ruddiman
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1773
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Credit: An introduction to Mr. James Anderson's Diplomata Scotiæ. To which is [sic] added notes, taken from various authors, and original manuscripts / By Thomas Ruddiman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sip bikin, eo] ed among our neighbouring nations fo many cen- turies back ; it is not eafily to be imagined, that the knowledge, and confequently the ufe of them fhould come to us fo late as the eleventh century. VI. But if any one fhould complain, that barbarifm Surely, Bede, the ancienteft of their writers, anity long before the Saxons; who fays, that to the Scots believing in Chrift, in the year =) not till 160 years ‘thereafter i. ¢. 590, that the Englifh nation embraced the Chriftian faith, by the pofe tothem. Every body allows, that with the purity of religion, ‘the ufe of learning or letters was introduced; which were very rare, or not at. allin this ifland before; and, together with it, a more polifhed manner of life. “I will not deny, that. this ferocity of manners, which was very great, and univerfally among almoft all the inhabitants of this ifland, could not be foftened in the courfe of many years, even centuries, after the light of the gofpel {prung up or was acknowledged. And it might happen, that the grievous diffention which fo long continued between the Scotch and En- glih about the obfervation of Eafter, and the tonfure of the clergy, and fome other rites, might make |