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Show -of our language had not as then ertended tt felfe.As0m -_beit inrour time the Scottifh language endeuoreth to come nmre,ifnotaltogither to mate) our tong in fine: nelle of phaafe , and copie of words. And this map in -spart apart bpau biffovte of the Apocrpyla tranflateo into Scottith verfebp Hudion, dedteated to the kingof that countriec,and conteining fire boks,ercept iivp mer morte do fatle me, tons cuert to thefe our dates, asthe language it felfe 10 ts bled liketuife in fundgie courts, bakes of recov,and matters of late ; ftbereof here is no place to make anv tbatleffe toler to than the other. Fo2in the north part gg ofthe region Lwhere the tuild Scotsotherinife called the Sus. Redhanks,o3 rough foter Scots (becaute thev go bare : a out Sarum, ohnFox, and fundzie learned gercellent it: 20 fotedand clad in mantels oer thet fattcon (hirts af te D0 tershauefullte accomplithed the oxnature ofthe fame, ter the Arif maner )dm inhabit , thep fpeakke gan Brith rit to their great peaife and inunoztall conmtendation; hijfch thep call Gachtlet,as thep faie of one Gathelus; ‘ although not afew other dm greatlie feeke to faine the fiberebp thep thet their originall tohaue intimes patt fame, by ford affectation of fooren and ftrange ioords, beene fetched ont of Sreland:as ¥ noted alfo in the cha: preluming that to be the bef Cnglithwhic) is mot cozpiter precedent,and faberebrtte Vincentius cepide infulis rupted twith erterriall termes of eloquence, and found Oceans Doth pelo his affent,faieng that Ireland was in of manic fpllables..5ut as thisercellencie of the ngs time patt called Scotia; scorta eadem(faith he) cr Hiber lit tong is foundin one, and the fouthpart of this 3 . mia,proxima Britannia infinla,fpatio tervarumangus thor,fedfi= iand; fo in Wales the greatef number (as 3 fatd)res tn foecundior;Scotia autem a Scotorum gentilus traditur appellaa faine Hill their otone ancient language, that of the 30 ta,er-c. Dut of the 14.bokte of Iidorus intituley origi noath part of the faid countrie being lefle coorupten num, there be alfoandeth thatit ts called Hybern ia,bee than the other, and therefore teputed for the better in caufe tt bendeth totvard Iberia. Wut J find elfethere Sralidmen Hele ofone effimation and iuogement. This alto is that it ts focallenbpcerteine Spantards thich came aeEraine proper to 05 Chglithmen, that ith ours is a meane to fecke and plant their inbabitation in the fame,thers toong, tanguage,and Heither tm rough no2 to fineth in pttes of in mp Chonologic FZ hane {poker move atlarge, tance, We map Sith much facilitie learne anpother Jn the Iles ofthe Orchades, n2 Dakenep,as foe nolo language befine Hebe, Greeke ¢Iatine, andfpeake callthem, ¢fuchcoatts of Writaine as do about bporw itnatutallic,as ifwe were Homte-bowe ir thofe cours the fame, the Coattith v2 Danith {peach is altogither tt tries 5¢ pet on the other ftoeit falleth out,3 time of Queene Elisabeth, theretn Iohn lewell 3B,0f tot not bp bie, andalto in Shetland, that other meanesthat fete foxen nations can tight 40 the princes of Porwate heldbp reafon(as ¥ take tt)that thofe landsfo long. br lie pronounceours, iwitho ut fone and of imperfection,efpeciallte the Ti tec feltome iwrite anpthingthat fauoze th of Custith true lie, Jtis apattime to read hoty Natalis Comes tulike manter {peaking ofour affaires, mth clip thenames of our Cngitth lords. wut this ofall therett doth ben mott admiration {with me, that if anp ffranger do hit pon fome likolie pzonuntiation of our tang, pet in Age be fearueth fo much from the fathe , that be is worltherein than eur he thas, and theretoperadner: 50 tute balteth not atitle alts in bis otone,as ¥haue fere byerperience in Regiial Y ginald Wolf baue iuftlic maruellen, ee betbec Te Conith ano Deuonthi re men,ohofe countrie mek OTH the Writons call Cernivy, ‘ baue a {peachb int i like fo2 their Olore,ANd uch as hath in res the Armortcanetong thanScan tor aMinitie,nae ioellnitentte ofBet in mine opinion, theyare both but a cotupted kind of Wyittth , albett fo far degenerating in thefe dates from theold, that if either of them do mite witha welds Manfbwwke not able at the firt to Ondertta oe bere and ther e ox " on: in fome ob habe,tetoenn Ando maruell(in mine opis onan ware of Comctwall és thus corr on upted tong that is {poken in the to2t h #fouth eeralesPoth bitter fo mucin fete as the S ooeee doth Cn fromthat tihicy ig fpo- Say bane tid alreanie, eee a e conesett erigtith beens much broaver and en Netivbtter ancebath thant ours Hot till of late inoenose , beeaufe that ne d tobzing the fante a t Y Owe, aNd pet it Was fud th ta man a Nglithinen thentcines difpeake for the mote part der their fubiedtion, albett thep tuere othertoife reputed as vather to belong to Zreland, bicanfe that the beri foile of them ts entmie to poifon, as forme tite, av though for mp part 3 hav neuer anp found experience ofthe truth hereof.Ano thns much bane J thought gop to fpeake of out old fpeathesand thote fue langua ges holy diuallie fpoken Within the limits of our Zlanv. Into howmanie kingdoms this Tland hathbeene Sided, Cap.7. & Lis not fo benoubten, but that git! i ay at thefirttthe tole gland twas ‘He tuled by one onelte prince, and pon AEe AM fo continucd from time totime, a fo tutill ciutll difcor, grounded --N) bpo ambitions defire to reigne, 6o E » Boe oa ae fante ta be a B Cbp diuerle, And meane thell of the time before the comming ofthis an. as af tev theertincion of bis tole race €pofteritie, Potwbe tt, as itisoneertetic into Holo mani? regtons it fae feucted, ater the firtt partition; fo tt ts moft ture that this latter pitturbed eftate of regiment, continued tit the famenot onelie ontill the time of Cefar,but alfo itt Manter brite the dates af Lucius, twith thome the thle Fate of the Iattons had an evid, andthe axomans full potletfion of this Zland, tho goncrned it bp Legats atterthemancr of a p2routnce, Ft thoulo teme lwithina Ghite atter the time of Duntvallon alfo that rar pet brought thofe foute prices that wiurped(abo in bis imeto obedience, thanertngnithen their ritles.¢ {uch Partition as they bay mane of the Zlanp amon thet felnes 15 -_rfoneth, andasit ts feucred from Arfon by the Con: twp,fo is it feparated from Legentia ( otherwife calied Stradeluy circuit of the countrie apertinent onto the fame, tberein tuere fundzie othercittesalfo of leflename, Stranclupdand Aqenta the fourth region) by the riner °* "°S""* Cluda, Finallic, the limits ofthislatter aeertended tbich otpaght homage and all {ubieaton bute the grew ter fort, And to fate truth, hereof tt came to patie, that each of thefe regions, thereints this {land was then aiuided , toke his nante of fome one of thefe cities; al- -alfo euen bnto the Deit felfe,andof thefe foure regi: bus confiftetl the kingdome of Venedotia, thergof tt times pat the region of the Canges was notthe fmab though Citas after Calar Doth fometime figntfie an Thus te fee hoty that bnder fhe Dominionofthe king of Cngland, andin the fouth parts of the realme, we hauethree feucrall tong s,that ts to fate, Crglifh ,w:ttifh,am Comifh, and even fomanie are in Scotland, if pou accompt the Cnglith {peach for one: nottoitty Handing that for bredth and quantitie of the regton, J meane onelie of the foile of the maine Jland,it be fome- Thcheivers Particular rebearfall, Afterward alto, by diligenttra: ofa Eng. tell of Geffray Chaucer, and Iohn Gowre, int thetime Ndtoong. ofRichard the fecond, and after them of IohnScogan, and John Lydgate monke of ierrie, our fain tong foas hrought to an ercellent pate, notivithtanding that itieuercamebuto thetypeofperfection, untill the Ls The defcription ofBritaine. felues) cach great citic had hte freedome and feucrall Bind of regiment, pzoper onto bir felfe, befine alarge left po2tion. The kingdome of Pototfy, lafk of all erected, as Dowie. thole continent o2kingdomte, thereby there tere in ro fald,hath on the nosth fine Gwinhedb,onthe calk(from CQhetter to Hereford, 02 rather to Deane forelt) Cngappeate by that of the Trinobantes , thick) was fo land, on the fouth and welt the riner Wp and verie called of Trinobantumthe chiefe citic of that portion, high billes,aberehpit is notablie feucred from Soutly hhofe territories conteined all Eller, Middlefer, and tuales, the chiefe citie thereof being atthe firt Salopt part of Wertfordthire, euen as the turildicion of the burg,in olotine Pengwerne,ann Pnwithig,but now bifhop of London ts now ertended,for the onerfight Shrotwelburie.a citie o2 totone vaifes out of the ruines of {uch things as belong buto the church. Ch of the go of Vricouium, tohich (fanding 4. miles from thence, trerno2sallo of thefe regions called themfelues kings, and by the Sarons called Wirekenceffer and Wtrokeandtherebnto either of them datlie made tvarre bpon cefferbefore they onerthzetnit) is not inbabiten with other.for the inlarging of their limits . but for fomuch 20 meére Cnglith, and twbere in old time the kings of as J antnot ablefo fate how manie did challenge this Powvifp did diwell and hold their palaces, till Gnglitty authoritie at once, and. hotv long thep reigned ouer meideaue themfrom thence to Matrauallin the fame their feuerall portions, 3 will pate oucrthefe ancient prouince, where thepfrom thenceforth abead. Upon fies, and conte nerer bnfo our ofone, J meane the the limits of this kingdome, and notfar from Wolt cas 6oo.pere of Giftwhereof tue haue moze certeine nofell,bpon echfide of the river, as the chanel now run fice, ¢ at {hich feafon there is eutdent pofe, that there nefh, fod fonetinie the famous monafferie of Wane Were tinclue 02 thirtenc kings reigning in this Sand, H02,Ghileff the abated glovic of the Britons pet rentals Bango; GatesniGee find therefore for the firkE,how that Wlales han hed buertinguitged, and herein Were 2190. monkes, Hee king: Dit thee fcucrall kingdomes, thich being accompted of hich, the learnen fort did preach the Gofpell, andthe Somes. . togither conteined (as Giraldus faith ) 49. cantreds 02 30 bnlearned labored with their hands, thereby to maine cantons ( thereof thee iuere tr his fine poffeffen bp feine themfelues,and to futtaine their preachers, This the French and Crglith) although that whole portion tegion iwas inlike foot dinided afterivard in thoaine,of of the Zland erfended in thofe daies 10 farder than as frhich,the one Wwas called Wailoro2 Wailrofle,the other gation. bout 200.miles in length, and one hundzed in beedth, Teteined fill hic olo denontination , and of thefe the and twas cut from Lhoeeres by the riuers Sauerne firf late by fouth, ¢ the latter by no2th of the Sauerne, and Dee, of hich tivo fiveames this doth fall into the As touching Mailrofe, J read mozcoucr in the Frith fea at Welkchetker , the other into the maine Ds geffs of Fowkes de Warren, hotw that one William Fowkes de ceatt, betiwirt Somerfetihire and Sonthiwales, ag fonne fo a certetue ladie fifter to Paine Peuerell, the Waren. their feuerall courfes fhall tvitnefle moze at large. fict le2d of Whittington, after the conquett din nin a Quthe begining tt ivas dintded info tivo kingdoms 40 pare of the fame, and the bundzed of Cllefnisze front Swinger, onelie,that ts fo faie, Venedotiao2 Gwynhedh (others the Welthmen,in which enterprife he twas fo defperat: {wife called Dehenbarth ) and Demetia , fox fbich fue lie oounded,that no man hight himlifespet at the late noty bf{e mot comonlic the names of South ¢ Porth, bp eating of the thicld ofa tile boze,be got an appetite wales.buntina Hort procefie of time a third fpzung bp Md recouered his health, This William hand ifue tivo in the berie middell betiveenc them both, tthich front Daughters, to twit, Helene maried fo the heire of the Helene, thence-fozth was called Powily,as thalbe thetved heres Alans, ad Mellent thich refufed mariage tutth ante Mellene, after. Jfo2 Roderijc the great, the flonrifhed 850. of man,ercepf be tuere firfk tried tobe akniabt of protve Giff, and was bing of all Wales (hich then contets ee. Werebpongir father made proclattiation,that ae ned onlie fir regions)leaning thee fons behind him,by gaint fuc) a date ¢ at fucya place, thatfoener Gentlebis laff twill ¢teffament diuided the countrie into thee 5° man could fheiv binrfelfe mo balfant in the field, portions, according tothe number of bis childz en, of fHould marric Wellent his daughter; ¢ haue with hic hitch he aligned one onto either of them,tberbp Morbis cafteil of (thittingtoniwith fufficient liuclichmn to wing 92 Morwinner hap Gwynhedh 92 o2thwales, mainteine their effates foreuer. Abis report being Cadelh Demetia 02 Southivales,and Anaralt Powify, {p2ed,Fowkes de Warren came thither allin rep, toith as Giraldus and other da remember, Hotvbeit if came a thield of filuer and pecocke for bis creff, ahercof he to pafle that after this diuifion,Cadelhfurufucs all bis has called the reo knight, and there ouercomming the heethzert, ard thereby became tod of both their poatiBings fonne of Scotland,and a Baronof iburgundic, ons,andbis fucceffo2s after himbntill the time of Tcuhe maried the matd, aid by bir hap (ue as in the treas thero2 Theodor (allis one) after tihfch thev were con tifc arpeareth. There is pet great mention of the rep fented to hepe themfelues twithin the compalle of De- 60 knight in the countric there aboutsand much like tuto metia,thith(as J faid) conteined 29. of thofe 49. can this Bellent twas the daughter fometine of tress the treds before mentioned, as Powifydid fir,and Gwinto20 *ofles , called Kudall, tho bare fuch god will fo hedh fonreteenc,ercept mp memozic do faile nie. Fits-Wenrie clarke of hic fathers hither, that the The niatThe firkt of thefe thee,being called as(¥ fatd) North made bimcarie bir atwaic on hortlebacke belinn him, Pets fwales 02 Venedotia(o2 aS Paulus Iouius fatth Malfa-~ onlie for bis manhoo fake, which prefentlic was trien, . brene,for he diuideth (Hales alfo into thee regions, of For being purfued ¢ ouertaken, the made himlight,r thich he calleth the fir Dumbera,the fecond Berfrona, belo bis clobe thilet he killed and ozaue bir fathers and the third Malfabrenc\lieth dfrectlic oucr againtt the nienfo flight : and thert atwate they go, till bit father Zleof Anglefei, the chiefe citie thereof ftwdin the {le conceining a gwd opinionof Fits-Wenrte forthis act, old finite Zot cruttates quot regna,and contrartinife as map Angictet, of Anglefetand was called Aberfraw. Zt conteineth 4 Srfon, tegions.of thithe fain Jlandis the firtk, and hereof in the chapter infuing ¥ twill intreate moze at large. The fecond is calied Arfon, andfituate betwweene tivo Wecionery, Tiers,the Degtopand the Conwy. The thirdis per teceined him to bis fauour, abereby that famitic caine Dp.And thus nich(by the wate) of Mailrofe , thereof this mapfuffice, fith mine intent is not as now ta make anie precife defcription of the particulars of Gales; but ouclic to ety hoto thofe regions laic, Ci, Mhich ~ -bepondfhe Lrent, tbither anp great artendeiont counttrie, Sutin baine,for inthe timeof king Coivara the firff,to wit,tolwardthe latter end of bis reigne,the French it(elfe ceated tobe fpokengeneralticbutmok of alland by latwin the midftof Coardthe thirdjamd thenbeyan the Gnglith to recouer and groty im more effimation than before ; notiwithitanding that among ourartificers,the moft partof their implements,toles arid tuordsofart reteine Mill their Jfrench derominas ledaeee The defcription of Britaine. ih erilethe Englith and Writith {peaches quiteoutof the |