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Show fo re Wii Ateoe ee 4 festa \ ey ten at thefirlt by Hefor Boetivs in Latine, andafterwardtranflatedinto the ScotifhJpeech by Fohn Bellenden archdeacon of Mur- rey, andnowfinallie into Englifh by W.H: The bounds of Albion with thefundrie commodities thereof, The authors out ofwhomethis hiftorie of Scotland hath beenegathered. Heétor Boetius. Johannes Ferrarius Pedemontanus, Tohannes Maior. Iohannes Fourdon. Rogerus Houeden. Richarduis Southwell. WilhelmusParuus, fiueNcoburgeniis. [ Albertus Crantz. 3 Aeneas Syluius. and ofthe great infirmities that fall vnto the people there for their intemperancie, andfiaal- lie ofthe religion vfed there inoldtime. of ourfeas, efpectallie totvards the nozth, that the fame tvould (uffice to feed and fulfeineall the people of the Glanpd,ifthere tere none other commodities to be found within the fame, Fo2 the inhabitantsof all countries that bo2der bpon bs, as France, Flanders, Zealand,Holland, and a great part of Cermante(efpectallie thote tthich To lienere bnito the coalt) do faile hither with great Thefirt Chapter. He Fle of AW ): Edward Hall. Richard Grafton. John Stow:andothers. do minifter, as grate, comeandcattell, fonles of fundiie kinds,there is {uch Moveof fit} in all parties bion conteineth in the trhole cits Wicumference 5° 2 N99, miles, bas uing in length numbers of bellels datlic to fifh Spon ourcoafts,aio bup fuch as tue haue alreadiecaught , not onlic for their otone bfe, but alfo for the Lenton pronifion of fuich nations as lie bpon the Lenant feas,there thep fell the fame at their otune twils, tuith berp {panic biterance. Manie other ridy and pretious conmnodt ties ate to be gotten in the fain Ale, thereof the a forendined nations do make no finall account, be- SDionpfitts Ba five thefe common things. What thall 4 faic of out jegandzinas 700, ¢ in byenth 20 Wolles, tic) ave info high effimation in all lands, faith that the P}] ARN, 300, ag appee bicaute of their neceffarie bies,amd thereof a great Polo a reth inell bp the partis fo fine and oft,that of it are mave the cofflie ieee coatt therof that doth lie ouer a and delicate clothes, of tbich ¥ thought god fo make manner coms gaint France 5 tehere it is bzoadeff, and from fharlets, pliant glones, and manie other grained thatitigin this mention, bicaufe the report thereof is' not pet ahood made commonand generallte knotwne toall men, 5, night. Certes this J dare bolbdlie affirme , thatif the thenceit gathereth narrotwer and narrower,till it kingdoms of %Wzitaine had fuch grace giuen them come to the btter marches ¢ laft bounds of England from abour,as that thep ntight once liue in bnitic, 02 by any meanes be brought bnder the fubieatonot and Scotland. 402 bettwirt the Mule of Gallowaic that is on the tueft five ouer againft the Jrith feas, 3° one prince, thep fhouln per long féele fuch a fauone it ad faint Cbhbes heap, that lieth bpon the Cermane this amific, that they would not onelie ltue franklie Ocean toward the eaft , are fcarfelie 1 zo miles , and of thefr oton, without anpfozren purchale of things, butalfo refift all outward inuafion, with fall tra thencefzth it groivety fmaller and {mailer till it toud) bpon the north feasthere it is not aboue thir tle miles, as % noted befoze in the delcription of Britaine. Chis Fle is replenithed with people, horfles, and all other kind of cattell and come in moff abundant maner, ercept tt be in fuch placés there as Gon of uell and leffe Dammage. For as touching thefr pers fons, and liketwife their notable wits, apt botty for the atteining of learning anv-hnotwledge of banotcrafts, they are infertour tonoother nation. Shere bnto Wwefind them to be couragious and barbie,of+ fering themfelues often vnto the bttermott perils bis Gngular gwdnefle hath othertwife induedthe folle 4° with great affurance, fo that a man may prationnce nothing to be onerhardo2 pal thety potver to pers With rich mines of golo, filuer, tin, b:afle , copper, @D quickMlucr, which for the moff part are fo plentt- full, that thep fuffice not onlie for the neceffaries of the tebole land,but alfo of fundzie regions that are Gtnatcd round about itif the inhabitants terefhils full anv painefull to peale withall accozdinglie. wut teabundance of all other thins tequifite for the bfe of man, that is found gencrallie tn our Zland, maketh the people teffc carefull of thefe commodtfies, smd moze ginen to tdleneffe. Fo? befine the Sat plentie of thole things ubich beauen and earth forme, tf thep would giue themfelues to liue temperatelic, anb follow their preveceffo2s in moderation of diet. Dhereforett is (as J thinke) that almightic Gov in bis proutventoffpofition of allthinigs, hath o20etned their grounds (othertwife plentifullie inoucd withall kinds of commodtties) to be deftitute and boty of fine ; as forefeing that the falv liquoz, hich byingeth greateft benefit unto other countries, twoulp grow in the end to be mof pernicious a to them. J ‘ |