Blair Collection > Critical dissertations on the origin, antiquities, language, government, manners, and religion, of the antient Caledonians, their posterity the Picts, and the British and Irish Scots

44 Of the Pinijh Monarchy.
Kinoth * : and the fum total of their hiftory, as
far as it has been recorded by thefe writers, is,
that Onnuft died in the year 761, and that Kinoth
gave a kind reception to Alfred of Northumber-
land, who had been expelled his Kingdom about
the year 774. The accounts given by the Scots
hiflorians of feveral other Pidifh Kings cannot
much be depended on. Some of them were mif-
informed or led aflray by inveterate prejudices, or
too ready to believe legendary tales ; while others,
pofTefTed indeed of a great fhare of learning, chofe
to embellifh their hiftories with fidions of their
own, or to make room for the fables which had
been invented by their predeceflbrs. The flories
told by the Britifh hiflorians, Geoffrey of Mon-
mouth, and the author of the Eulogium, con-
cerning Roderic a Pidlifh King, concerning Ful-
genius, another prince of the fame nation, and
concerning the three Piftifh colonies eflablifhed in
North Britain, defer ve not the leaft attention.
The curious in ill-contrived legends of this kind
may be amply fatisfied on that head, in archbifhop
Ufher's antiquities X.
* Their true names feem to be Hungus, Angus or Innis, and
Cineach or Kenneth.
% Chap. XV. p. 300, &c.
D I S S E R.