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286 THE GENUINE HISTORY OF<br />

adopted <strong>the</strong> appellation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir conquerors .<br />

And<br />

all <strong>the</strong> nations <strong>of</strong> Ireland were embodied into<br />

one Empire, under <strong>the</strong> general denomination <strong>of</strong><br />

Scots '.<br />

At <strong>the</strong> commencement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>fe wars, a younger<br />

fon <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> royal family <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Creones in Ca-<br />

ledonia, having been fent over with fuccours to<br />

<strong>the</strong> <strong>Britons</strong>, was ch<strong>of</strong>en <strong>the</strong>ir Pendragon by<br />

<strong>the</strong> kings; and <strong>the</strong> crown was fixed hereditary<br />

in his family. And, foon after <strong>the</strong> conclufion <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>m, <strong>the</strong> royal line <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Creones being ex-<br />

tinguilhed, <strong>the</strong>ir dominions muft neceifarily have<br />

devolved to <strong>the</strong> monarchs <strong>of</strong> Ireland. This<br />

was affuredly <strong>the</strong> great occafion, that firft fettled<br />

a colony <strong>of</strong> Scots in Caledonia. <strong>The</strong> occafion<br />

indeed is merely conjectural : but it has fuch<br />

ftrong coincidences <strong>of</strong> reafon and faft in fup-<br />

port <strong>of</strong> it, as alm<strong>of</strong>t lend it <strong>the</strong> fanftion <strong>of</strong><br />

Hiflory. <strong>The</strong> royal line <strong>of</strong> Ireland appears<br />

decifively from Offian, to have been <strong>the</strong> younger<br />

branch <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> houfe <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Creones. This<br />

houfe appears as decifively to have finally failed<br />

in <strong>the</strong> perfon <strong>of</strong> Offian, about <strong>the</strong> year 320.<br />

And in <strong>the</strong> year 320 we fee a body <strong>of</strong> Scots<br />

detached from Ireland, and fettling in <strong>the</strong> coun-<br />

try <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Creones. <strong>The</strong> monarch <strong>of</strong> Ireland<br />

would take polTcflion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> devolved kingdom,<br />

and naturally give it as an appenage to one<br />

* Hiftorv <strong>of</strong> Mancheller, p. 443— 446.<br />

<strong>of</strong>

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