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The Irish Scots, in the course of two or three centuries, might find time and opportunities sufficient to settle in North Britain, though we can neither assign the period nor causes of that revolution. Their barbarous manner of life rendered them much fitter than the Romans for subduing these mountaineers. And in a word, it is clear, from the language of the two countries, that the Highlanders and the Irish are the same people, and that the one are a colony from the other. We have positive evidence, which, though from neutral persons, is not perhaps the best that may be wished for, that the former, in the third or fourth century, sprang from the latter: We have no evidence at all that the latter sprang from the former. I shall add, that the name of Erse or Irish, given by the low-country Scots to the language of the Scotch Highlanders, is a certain proof of the traditional opinion, delivered from father to son, that the latter people came originally from Ireland.

[p]Gildas, Bede, lib. 1. cap. 12. Paull. Diacon.

[q]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 12.

[r]Ibid.

[s]Gildas, Bede, lib. 1. Ann Beverl. p. 45.

[t]Gildas, Bede, lib. 1. cap. 13. Malmesbury, lib. 1. cap. 1. Ann. Beverl. p. 45.

[u]Chron. Sax. p. 11. Edit. 1692.

[w]Ann. Beverl. p. 45.

[x]Gildas, Bede, lib.1. cap. 14.

[y]Gildas, Usher Ant. Brit. p. 248, 347.

[z]Gildas, Bede, lib. 1. cap. 17. Constant. in vita Germ.

[a]Gildas, Gul. Malm. p. 8.

[b]Caesar, lib. 6. Tacit. de Mor. Germ.

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[c]Caesar, lib. 6. Tacit. ibid.

[d]Amm. Marcell. lib. 28. Orosius.

[e]Amm. Marcell. lib. 27. cap. 7. lib. 28. cap. 7.

[f]Will. Malm. p. 8.

[g]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 15. Saxon Chron. p. 13. Nennius, cap. 28.

[h]Sax[chon Chronicle, p. 12. Gul. Malm. p. 11. Huntington, lib. 2. p. 309. Ethelwerd.

Brompton, p. 728.

[i]Chron. Sax. p. 12. Ann. Beverl. p. 49.

[k]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 15. Nennius, cap. 35. Gildas, § 23.

[l]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 15. Usher, p. 226. Gildas, § 24.

[m]Nennius. Galfr. lib. 6. cap. 12.

[n]Nennius, cap. 47. Galfr.

[o]Stillingfleet’s Orig. Britt. p. 324, 325.

[p]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 15. Ethelwerd, p. 833. edit. Camdeni. Chron. Sax. p. 12. Ann.

Beverl. p. 78. The inhabitants of Kent and the Isle of Wight were Jutes. Essex, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, and all the southern counties to Cornwal, were peopled by Saxons: Mercia and other parts of the kingdom were inhabited by Angles.

[q]Chron. Sax. p. 14. Ann. Beverl. p. 81.

[r]Saxon. Chron. A. D. 485. Flor. Wigorn.

[s]Hen. Huntin. lib. 2.

[t]Will. Malm. lib. 1. cap. 1. p. 12. Chron. Sax. p. 15.

[u]Chron. Sax. p. 17.

[w]H. Hunting. lib. 2. Ethelwerd, lib. 1. Chron. Sax. p. 17.

[x]Hunting. lib. 2.

[y]Gildas, Saxon Chron. H. Hunting. lib. 2.

[z]Math. West. Huntingdon. lib. 2.

[a]Chron. Sax. p. 19.

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[b]Will. Malms p. 19.

[c]Ann. Bever. p. 78.

[d]Gildas. Bede, lib. 1.

[e]Milton in Kennet, p. 50.

[f]Chron. Sax. p. 21.

[g]H. Hunting. lib. 2.

[h]Greg. of Tours, lib. 9. cap. 26. H. Hunting. lib. 2.

[i]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 25. Brompton, p. 729.

[k]Bede, lib. 2. cap. 1. Spell. Conc. p. 91.

[l]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 23.

[m]Greg. Epist. lib. 9 epist. 56. Spell. Conc. p. 82.

[n]Higden, Polychron. lib. 5. Chron. Sax. p. 23.

[o]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 25. H. Hunting. lib. 3. Brompton, p. 719. Parker Antiq. Brit. Eccl.

p. 61.

[p]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 25. Chron. W. Thorn. p. 1759.

[q]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 25. H. Hunting. lib. 3. Brompton, p. 729.

[r]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 26.

[s]Ibid. cap. 26. H. Hunting. lib. 3.

[t]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 32. Brompton, p. 732. Spell. Conc. p. 86.

[u]Bede, lib. 1 cap. 27. Spell. Conc. p. 97, 98, 99, &c.

[w]Augustine asks, “Si mulier menstrua consuetudine tenetur, an ecclesiam intrare ei

licet, aut sacrae communionis sacramenta percipere?” Gregory answers, “Santae communionis mysterium in eisdem diebus percipere non debet prohiberi. Si autem ex veneratione magna percipere non praesumitur, laudanda est.” Augustine asks, “Si post illusionem, quae per somnum solet accidere, vel corpus Domini quilibet accipere valeat; vel, si sacerdos sit, sacra mysteria celebrare?” Gregory answers this learned question by many learned distinctions.

[x]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 30. Spell. Conc. p. 89. Greg. Epist. lib. 9. epist. 71.

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[y]Chron. Sax. p. 23, 24.

[z]H. Hunting. lib. 3. Spell. Conc. p. 83. Bede, lib. 1. Greg. Epist. lib. 9. epist. 6.

[a]Bede, lib. 1. cap. 27.

[b]Will. Malm. p. 10.

[c]Wilkins Leges Sax. p. 13.

[d]Bede, lib. 2. cap. 5.

[e]Ibid. cap. 6. Chron. Sax. p. 26. Higden, lib. 5.

[f]Brompton, p. 739.

[g]Will. Malm. p. 11.

[h]Higden, lib. 5.

[i]Chron. Sax. p. 52.

[k]Will. Malmes. lib. 1. cap. 1. p. 11.

[l]Brompton, p. 779.

[m]Trivet. apud Spell. Conc. p. 111.

[n]Bede, lib. 2. cap. 2. W. Malmes, lib. 1. cap. 3.

[o]W. Malmes. lib. 1. cap. 3. H. Hunting. lib. 3. Bede.

[p]Bede, lib. 2. cap. 12. Brompton, p. 781.

[q]Chron. Sax. p. 27.

[r]Gul. Malmes. lib. 1. cap. 3.

[s]H. Hunting. lib. 3.

[t]Bede, lib. 2. cap. 9.

[u]Bede, lib. 2. cap. 9. Malmes. lib. 1. cap. 3.

[w]Bede, lib. 2. cap. 13. Brompton, Higden, lib. 5.

[x]Matth. West. p. 114. Chron. Sax. p. 29.

[y]W. Malmes. lib. 1. cap. 3.

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[z]Bede, lib. 2. cap. 20.

[a]Bede, lib. 3. cap. 9.

[b]Hugo Candidus, p. 4. says that he was treacherously murdered by his queen, by

whose persuasion he had embraced Christianity; but this account of the matter is found in that historian alone.

[c]Bede, lib. 5.

[d]Chron. Sax. p. 59.

[e]Brompton, p. 750, 751, 752.

[f]Spell. Conc. p. 308. Brompton, p. 776.

[g]Spell. Conc. p. 230, 310, 312.

[h]Higden, lib. 5.

[i]Ingulph. p. 5. W. Malmes. lib. 1. cap. 4.

[k]Lib. 1. cap. 4.

[l]Chron. Sax. p. 65.

[m]Dupin, cent. 8. chap. 4.

[n]Offa, in order to protect his country from Wales, drew a rampart or ditch of a

hundred miles in length from Basinwerke in Flintshire to the South-sea near Bristol.

See
Speed’s Description of Wales.

[o]Ingulph. p. 6.

[p]Ingulph. p. 7. Brompton, p. 776.

[q]Ingulph. p. 7.

[r]Ann. Beverl. p. 87.

[s]Chron. Sax. p. 24.

[t]Lib. 2. cap. 5.

[u]H. Hunting. lib. 3. Brompton, p. 738, 743. Bede.

[w]Malmes, lib. 1. cap. 6.

[x]Brompton, p. 800.

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[y]Chron. Sax. p. 22.

[z]Higden, lib. 5. Chron. Sax. p. 15. Ann. Beverl. p. 94.

[a]Bede, lib. 4. cap. 12. Chron. Sax. p. 41.

[b]Higden, lib. 5. W. Malmes. lib. 1. cap. 2.

[c]W. Malmes. lib. 1. cap. 2.

[d]Chron. Sax. p. 16.

[e]H. Hunting. lib. 4.

[f]Lib. 2. cap. 11.

[g]Higden, lib. 5. M. West. p. 152. Asser. in vita Alfredi, p. 3. ex edit. Camdeni.

[h]Chron. Sax. A. D. 800. Brompton, p. 801.

[i]Chron. Sax. p. 69.

[k]Ethelwerd, lib. 3. cap. 2.

[l]Ibid. lib. 3. cap. 3.

[m]Ingulph. p. 7, 8, 10.

[n]Chron. Sax. p. 71.

[o]Chron. Sax. p. 71.

[p]These abuses were common to all the European churches; but the priests in Italy,

Spain and Gaul, made some atonement for them by other advantages, which they rendered society. For several ages, they were almost all Romans, or, in other words, the ancient natives; and they preserved the Roman language and laws, with some remains of the former civility. But the priests in the Heptarchy, after the first missionaries, were wholly Saxons, and almost as ignorant and barbarous as the laity.

They contributed, therefore, little to the improvement of the society in knowledge or the arts.

[q]Bede, lib. 3. cap. 26.

[r]Ibid. lib. 5. cap. 23. Epistola Bedae ad Egbert.

[s]Bedae Epist. ad Egbert.

[t]Append. to Bede, numb. 10. ex. edit. 1722. Spelm. Conc. p. 108, 109.

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[u]Bede, lib. 5. cap. 7.

[w]See Appendix to Bede, numb. 19. Higden, lib. 5.

[x]Eddius vita Vilfr. § 24, 60.