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XXX PREFACE.
Pi£is, It is true, were permitted to b? of ^
diiierent extradion : but the Fids, itfeernsy
were vaffals of Ireland, and unworthy of be-
ing defcended from their Heremonian Lords.
Usher, no doubt with fome degree of
pleafure, found that, in the printed copies of
Jerome, the Britiih canibals of the holy Fa-
ther were the Scots-f*. The Primate remarks,
at the fame time, that fome manufcripts cal-
led them Attifcotti, Catitti, Cattacotti, and
Attagotti : but Cambden ccnjedures, with
reafon, that thofe names ought to be read
Attacotti, according to the orthography fol-
lowed by Marcellinus. Should we give the
preference to the reading which Uflier found
in print, there arifes a proof that the Scots,
contrary to his own pofition, were fettled in
Britain in the fourth age. If we adopt the
opinion of Cambden, the Irifh cannot pcf-
fibly have any right to the Attacotti. — That
the Attacotti polielTcd the county of Gallo-
way, is highly probable : from a pafT^ige in
Marcellinus, we may naturally infer, that
they were more conneded with the Scots
than with the Pids ; confequently, that they
poflefled a part of the weftern coaft, rather
than that of the German oceanj.
t Bnt. Icclef. ant. p. 307, 308.
1 Pi<5tj, Saxoncfque, ct Scotti & Attacotti Srltannos acrumnis vexavtre
ccminuis. Ammian. MarceU. 1. 26.
CONTENTS
Pi£is, It is true, were permitted to b? of ^
diiierent extradion : but the Fids, itfeernsy
were vaffals of Ireland, and unworthy of be-
ing defcended from their Heremonian Lords.
Usher, no doubt with fome degree of
pleafure, found that, in the printed copies of
Jerome, the Britiih canibals of the holy Fa-
ther were the Scots-f*. The Primate remarks,
at the fame time, that fome manufcripts cal-
led them Attifcotti, Catitti, Cattacotti, and
Attagotti : but Cambden ccnjedures, with
reafon, that thofe names ought to be read
Attacotti, according to the orthography fol-
lowed by Marcellinus. Should we give the
preference to the reading which Uflier found
in print, there arifes a proof that the Scots,
contrary to his own pofition, were fettled in
Britain in the fourth age. If we adopt the
opinion of Cambden, the Irifh cannot pcf-
fibly have any right to the Attacotti. — That
the Attacotti polielTcd the county of Gallo-
way, is highly probable : from a pafT^ige in
Marcellinus, we may naturally infer, that
they were more conneded with the Scots
than with the Pids ; confequently, that they
poflefled a part of the weftern coaft, rather
than that of the German oceanj.
t Bnt. Icclef. ant. p. 307, 308.
1 Pi<5tj, Saxoncfque, ct Scotti & Attacotti Srltannos acrumnis vexavtre
ccminuis. Ammian. MarceU. 1. 26.
CONTENTS
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Description | A selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray. |
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Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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