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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50493	A defence of the antiquity of the royal line of Scotland with a true account when the Scots were govern'd by kings in the isle of Britain / by Sir George Mackenzie ...	Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.	1685 (1685)	Wing M156; ESTC R228307	87,340	231

Civil Law the best Standard of the Latine Language must acknowled that there is Patria Originis as well as Incolatûs domicilii And it may be justly said of those of Virgina and other English Plantations that Anglia est proprie illorum patria And generally it is observable that the Authors relating both to us and them do first call the People Scoti and then the Country Scotia but still the more ancient Authors call us Scoti before them and our Country Scotia before theirs As to the Citations out of Adamnanus in vita Columbae and Beda It is certain that Adamnanus is lately publish'd by an Irish Hand as appears by the Marginal Notes the Publisher still adding Hibernia in the Magin where Scotia is in the Text. But however it is certain that Adamnanus was Abbot of Hy which is Ikolmkil among the Scotish West Islands so that in dubio he is presum'd to be a Scots-man and not an Irish and Balaeus and others positively assert him to be a Scots-man Nor is there any reason for their calling him an Irish-man but because all Authors who speak of him call him Scotus and to assert a Man to be an Irish-man because he is called Scots-man is rather a Bull than a Reason But because he is mention'd by Beda who liv'd shortly after him and is an Author of far greater Authority What I shall observe from Beda will serve to clear the Citations out of both And first Beda relates That Ecgfrid King of Northumberland having sent an Army into Ireland under Bertus he wasted the Country and the innocent People And the next Year having sent an Army to waste the Province of the Picts contrary to the advice of his Friends and of St. Cuthbert God suffered that Army to be destroy'd because the former Year he had rejected their Advice That he should not invade Scotland which did not wrong him And to clear that the Scotia here express'd was not Ireland he adds The English and Scots who abide in Britain This Passage as well as the others which I have cited and shall cite proves 1. That Scotland then was promiscuously express'd by the names of Hibernia and Scotia For the same thing is said first to have been done in Hibernia and thereafter it is said to have been done in Scotia And this answers the Objection Hiberni revertuntur domum and where could their Home be but in Ireland 2. It proves that this our Country was call'd Scotia in Beda's Time and so long before the Year 1000 which the Bishop denies Nor can it be prov'd that the King of Northumberland went to make War in Ireland nor speaks Beda of any War with Ireland The next Passage from Beda is where he says That Columbanus an Abbot and Presbyter came in the year 565 from Ireland to Britain to preach the Word of God to the Provinces of the North-picts and converted them and got from them possession of the former Island for founding a Monastery where he was buried Out of which Monastery meaning Hy many other Monasteries were propagated in Ireland and Britain in all which the same Island-Monastery was the chief And he takes notice that the Successors of this Abbot differed in the Observation of Easter from the Church of Rome till the Year 716. And thereafter he says That Aidan was sent from this Island for instructing the Province of the English Now he had said before Aidan who was sent from the Isle which is called Hy which is the chief of the Scotish and Pictish Monasteries and belongs to Britain And thereafter he says That Colman seeing his Doctrine slighted and his Adherents despised returned to Scotland So that we see that that which at the first is called Ireland afterward is called the said Island and the Monastery in it the Island-Monastery and thereafter it is called the Isle of Hy and thereafter it is called Scotland I shall cite a third Passage from Beda where speaking of a great Plague in Britain he adds This Plague also wasted Ireland with the same destruction at which time there were there many of the Nobility and Commons of England who in the time of the Bishops Finan and Colman having left their own Native Island for the greater convenience either of Divine Studies or a more strict Life had retired thither All whom the Scots kindly entertain'd and furnished with all things necessary and gave them freely Meat and Books to read and Learning And thereafter speaking of Egbert who was among them he adds That he was a good Example to his own Nation and to the Nations of the Picts and Scots among whom he liv'd retiredly by which passages it is evident that that which is here called Ireland is really our Scotland first because it is said they came from England upon the occasion of Finan and Colman who were our Countrymen and whose chief residence was the Isle of Hy or Icolm-kill from which they came which did then and does still belong to us only and which the Bishop of St. Asaph also confesses and then because in their Monastick Life it is said they resided among the Scots and Picts and it is said before that the Island where the Monastery was belonged to Britain But for further clearing the former Citations from Beda I shall offer these following Considerations 1. That Beda treats only the Actions of these five Nations that did inhabite Britain and if he do speak of France or Ireland it is but upon occasion of them as of the situation of Ireland from whence the Scots came or of some Monasteries depending upon Icolm-kill which perhaps were situated near us in the North of Ireland and therefore unless all these passages were clearly applicable to Ireland they must be understood of Scotland 2. It being certain that Beda in the beginning of his Book treats concerning the Scots in Britain the Roman Wars with them and Palladius's being sent to them it necessarily follows that the rest of the Book mentioning the Scots or that part of the Isle possess'd by them is to be understood of us whether the Country be called Hibernia or Scotia or We Hiberni or Scoti especially since Beda mentions a King call'd Aidan and we had a King of that Name in that time which the Irish cannot pretend Beda treats also concerning the Abbots of Hy which is Icolm-kill as is clear by that passage where he says Columba Founder of the Monastery in the Isle of Hy venerable to the Scots and Picts which by a compounded name from Columba and Cell is called Icolm-kill And that the Monks sent from this Monastery or Island were the Converters of the North-Saxons and the first Bishops of Lindasfern or Holy-Island Predecessors of the Bishop of Durham 3. He makes frequent mention of little Islands which never did belong to Ireland but to Sotland and are still called Hebrides And so