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A07619	The abridgement or summarie of the Scots chronicles with a short description of their originall, from the comming of Gathelus their first progenitor out of Græcia into Egypt. And their comming into Portingall and Spaine, and of their kings and gouernours in Spaine, Ireland and Albion, now called Scotland, (howbeit the whole number are not extant) with a true chronologie of all their kings. Their reignes, deaths and burials, from Fergusius the first king of Scotland, vntill his Royall Maiestie, now happily raigning ouer all Great Brittaine and Ireland, and all the isles to them appertaining. With a true description and diuision of the whole realme of Scotland, and of the principall cities, townes, abbies, fortes, castles, towers and riuers, and of the commodities in euery part thereof, and of the isles in generall, with a memoriall of the most rare and wonderfull things in Scotland. By Iohn Monipennie.	Monipennie, John.	1612 (1612)	STC 18014	80,300	130

The abridgement or Summarie of the Scots Chronicles with a short description of their originall from the comming of GATHELVS their first Progenitor out of Graecia into Egypt And their comming into Portingall and Spaine and of their Kings and Gouernours in Spaine Ireland and Albion now called Scotland howbeit the whole number are not extant with a true Chronologie of all their KINGS Their Reignes Deaths and Burials from FERGVSIVS the first King of Scotland vntill his Royall MAIESTIE now happily Raigning ouer all Great Brittaine and Ireland and all the Isles to them appertaining With a true description and diuision of the whole Realme of Scotland and of the principall Cities Townes Abbies Fortes Castles Towers and Riuers and of the commodities in euery part thereof and of the Isles in generall with a memoriall of the most rare and wonderfull things in SCOTLAND By IOHN MONIPENNIE Printed at Brittaines Bursse by Iohn Budge 1614. To the most High and Mightie Monarch IAMES by the grace of God King of Great Britane France and Ireland defender of the faith c. IT May be by many iustly most gracious Soueraigne imputed to me for no small presumption to present to your Royall Maiestie a Prince of so great learning and excellent iudgement these simple fruits of my vnskilfull endeuours taken in this short abridgement In most humble and obedient manner I do preferre vnto your Highnesse these my weake and vnlearned labours according to my ability which how vnworthy they be of so great a princely fauour as wel for the meannesse of me the writer as for the plainnesse and rudenesse of the stile yet if for the worthinesse of the matter and of your Maiesties great accustomed clemency vouchsafe then your Highnesse fauourable regard they shall be as fortunate as if they had beene composed by greater more learned men wherein briefly ●…ay be seene the great and infinite mercy of God towards your royall person that it hath pleased his superexcellent wisedome by his mighty power to preserue your Highnesse ancient Kingdome of Scotland vnconquered vnder the Empire and gouernment of one hundreth and sixe Kings your Maiesties royall progenitors and in speciall when almost the whole world was brought vnder the Romane Empire by the sword Also to reduce in one peaceable Monarch these ancient mighty landes many Ilands which haue bene diuided in many seuerall Kingdomes one of Britons seuen of Saxons one of Scots one of Pictes one of Orkenay and sixe of Ireland also some of the valiant and illustre noble actes of your Highnesse most royall and ancient progenitors and of their raignes liues deathes and burials Accept them most mightie Monarch I most humbly beseech your royall Maiesty in your Highnesse gracious protection and according to my bounden dutie incessantly with all humility I will pray the great God of all might and power to his eternall glory long to preserue your Royall Maiestie and your gracious Queene in blessed health and peace to raigne ouer these your Highnesse great vnited Kingdomes and to enlarge the same and your Maiesties most royall and hopefull posterity to the worlds end Your Maiesties most humble and obedient Subiect IOHN MONIPENNY THE ABRIDGMENT OR SVMMARY OF the Scots CHONICLE WITH A SHORT DESCRIPTION of their originall from the comming of GATHELVS their Progenitour out of Graecia into Egypt and of their Kings and Gouernours in Spaine Ireland and Albion howbeit the whole number are not extant with a true Chronologie of all their Kings lineally descended from FERGVSIVS the first King of Scotland vnto his sacred Maiestie now happily reigning ouer all Great Britaine Ireland and all the Isles to them appertaining GATHELVS son of CECROPS King of ATHENS by his insolence made many inuasions in Macedonia and Achaia in Graecia And because he could not suffer correction he with many valiant Grecians came into Egypt followed Pharao in his warres against the Aethiopians who with great cruelty had wasted the most part of Egypt vnto Memphis the principall citie of that Realme Pharao with support of Gathelus vanquished and ouercame the Aethiopians in a most dangerous battell And Gathelus valiantly vanquished and wanne their principall citie called Meroe After this great victory he being a lusty person strong of body and of a great spirit wan great fauour with the King and his familiars that the Kings daughter SCOTA was giuen in marriage vnto Gathelus with many lands Shortly after Pharao died and another Pharao succeeded who opprest the Israelites with great seruitude and tyranny Gathelus abhorring such cruelty conferring with MOYSES also hauing respons of the Oracles of Egypt was foreseene of the plagues to come vpon Egypt made prouision for all things necessary for sayling and tooke shipping with his wife Scota his valiant Grecians and many Egyptians from the riuer Nilus the yeare of the world 2453. After long sayling and trauell he arriued at the land of Numidia being stopped to land he pulled vp sailes and with dangerous and painfull passage through the Straites he landed in one part of Spaine then called Lusi●…nia by his arriuall called Portgathel now Portingall at his landing the olde inhabitants came against him with arrayed battell whom he vanquished He builded one Citie vpon the riuer Munda then called Brachare now called Barsolona Then after he came into the North part of Spaine now called Gal●…ia where he builded a citie called Brigance now Compostella where he reigned with Princely dignity and instituted lawes and named his people Scottes after his wife Scota for she had born vnto him two sonnes twinnes HIBER and HEMICVS He brought with him from Egypt the marble fatall chaire which was transported to Ireland and to Albion now called Scotland wherein all their Kings were crowned vntil the time of King Edward the first who transported the whole ancient regall monuments of Scotland with the marble fatall chaire to Westminster where it remaineth to this day The Scots shall brooke that Realme as natiue ground If words faile not where euer this chaire is found Gathelus sitting in his marble chaire within this citie of Brigance gouerned his people with Princelydignity peaceably and instituted lawes And seeing his people encrease with such great multitude and not willing to violate the bande made with the old inhabitants being informed by diuers expert explorators that there was an Isle opposite to Spaine on the North with a rude people inhabited hauing no lawes nor manners Therefore he brought all the shippes he could get with expedition to the next Sea port with sufficient prouision with Hiber and Hemicus accompanied with valiant warriours and ordeyned Hiber to be Admirall to passe the said Isle which they obeyed hoisting sayles with fortunate windes arriued the fift day after in the said Island Immediately landing their people then pitched their Tents on the next trenches The rude inhabitants amazed at the arriuing and landing of such a multitude of warriours fledde with their cattell and goods into their Cauernes Hiber commaunding

willing to haue discharged himselfe of the Kingdome in fauour of Ferlegus eldest sonne to his brother Fergusius which his Nobles would not condiscend vnto because of the Statute and acte of Parliament lately made which continued vntill the time of the raigne of King KENETVS the third almost 1205. years he was killed by the aforesaid Ferlegus the fifteenth yeare of his raigne Ferlegus the murtherer and all other participant with him being banished were fugitiues among the Pictes and finding no security of his life he past into Britaine where he spent the rest of his dayes in great miserie 3 MAINVS King Fergusius second sonne succeeded in the yeare of the world 3680. before Christ 291. after the beginning of the raigne 41. He was a noble King a good Iusticiar for he exercised Iustice aires for repressing of trespassors and ratified the old league with Crinus King of Pictes holding good peace with his confederates and Britaines He died peaceably the nine and twentieth yeare of his raigne 4 DORNADILLA succeeded his father Mainus in the yeare of the world 3709. before Christ 262. after the beginning of the raigne 70. Hee was a good King and confirmed peace with the Pictes and Britaines he delighting greatly in hunting races and hounds made certaine lawes profitable for hunting which were obserued many yeares after he died peaceably the eight and twentieth yeare of his raigne 5. NOTHATVS succeeded his brother Dornadilla whose sonne REVVTHER was a childe not able to gouerne by vertue of the aforesaid Statute the yeare of the world 3738. before Christ 233. after the beginning of the raigne 98. He was an auaritious cruell Tyrant hee was killed by Dowall one of his Nobles Captaine of the Brigandes the twentieth yeare of his raigne 6 REVTHERVS Dornadella his sonne succeeded the yeare of the world 3758. before Christ 213. after the raigne 118. He being young assisted by Dowall raysed great contention by the perswasion of Ferquhart Captaine of Kentire and Lorne cousen to Nothatus the tyrant late killed a man of subtill wit and hauing great ambition to the Crowne Betweene the aforesaid parties there was cruell warres Ferquhart being fugitiue in Ireland returned being assisted with many Irish men with the inhabitants of Kyntire Lorne Ardgile Caithnes Murray and with a great armie Dowall res●…ing came with a great power accompanied with the young King and the King of Pictes and many other his friends there was a cruell battell and killing of Chiefetaines and Nobles on both parties The King of Pictes with many of his Nobles pittifully killed Reutherus the young King pursued and taken at the Castle of Calender By this vnhappy battell was such terrible slaughter that neither Scots nor Pictes were left liuing sufficient to inhabite their Realmes nor to withstand their enemies Afterwards the Scots and Pictes were most cruelly inuaded by the Britaines and a great multitude killed the rest exiled King Reutherus and his people past into Ireland and the Pictes past into Orkney King Reutherus returning from Ireland and the Pictes with their King Gethus returning from Orkney they gaue battell to the King of Britaines and obtayning victory by the high and soueraigne manhood and valiantnesse of the foresaid King Reuthorus the Britaines rendred all the forts landes and townes pertayning to the Scots and Pictes with faithfull promise neuer to inuade them in time comming This peace being concluded the Scots Pictes and Britaines continued in great tranquility many yeares after the King enduring the rest of his dayes had good peace and died the sixe and twentieth yeare of his raigne 7 RHEVDA succeeded his brother Reutherus in the yeare of the world 3784. before Christ 187. after the beginning of the raigne 144. He was a good King he caused sepultures to be made for noble valiant men he brought artificers into his Realme and instituted sundry good lawes In his time came certaine Orators Philosophers from King Ptolomeus of Egypt who were pleasantly receiued and well entertained because they were descended of the Egyptians his auncient forefathers These Orators did write and consider the situation of the hilles mountaines vallies riuers lockes frithes Isles townes and forts within the Realme of Scotland and the lands thereto pertayning as also to the Pictes He raigned peaceably sixteene yeares and resigned the crowne to THEREVS sonne to King Reutherus 8 THEREVS Reutherus sonne succeeded in the yeare of the world 3799. before Christ 171. after the raign 158. He appeared in the first sixe monethes to be a vertuous Prince but after he became an vnwise cruell tyrant Therefore being degraded of all honor he was exiled And Conan Captaine of the Brigandes elected to be gouernor who gouerned the Realme peaceably during the exile of Thereus who died in the Citie of Yorke in misery the twelfth yeare of his raigne 9 IOSINA succeeded his brother Thereus the yeare of the world 3810. before Christ 161. after the raigne 170. He was a peaceable and good King ratifying peace with his confederates the Pictes and also with the Britaines he was a good Medecinar and Herbestar In his time were brought to his presence in Berigone Two venerable Philosophers pleasant of visage almost naked being Priests of Spaine passing from Portingall to Athens and by vnmercifull tempest were Ship-broken at Ros their shippe and company with Marriners all perished they onely saued After refreshing and good entertainment the King desired and demaunded of them what they vnderstood by their science of the nature of the ground of Scotland after good and deliberate aduisement so farre as they might coniecture there was more riches and profite to be gotten within the veynes of the earth of Scotland then aboue for it was giuen more to the winning of Mines and mettals then any production of corne They knew this by the influence of the heauens Also they learned the people to worship onely God the Creator prohibiting them to make sacrifice as their custome then was to Isis and Apis the Gods of the Egyptians but only to make their sacrifice prayers and adoration in their Temples without any imagery to the eternall God creator of heauen and earth which the people for the most part obserued long time King Iosina being a vertuous Prince died in peace the foure and twentieth yeare of his raigne and buried at Berigone 10 FINNANVS succeeded his father Iosina the yeare of the world 3834. before Christ 137. after the raigne 194. a wise and vertuous King a good Iusticiar with aduice of his Nobles rewarding them honourably after their deseruings winning the hearts of his people ruled with great felicity encreasing in riches hee did institute Prelates and Clerkes to be in the Isle of man instructing Noble mens children in their youth This vertuous King married his sonne Durstius with Agafia daughter to the King of Britaines he wan great fauour among them he visited the King of Pictes who was vexed with a vehement feuer in Camelon he died there the thirtieth yeare of his raigne and