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PEEFACE. cxxv its statements by the Irish annalists. They know nothing of Garnad, the sou of Ferat ; but, accord- ing to them, Angus, the son of Fergus, made his way to the Pictish throne by defeating the three previous kings, — Drest, Alpin, and Nectan. They record, in 724, the Clericatus of Nectan, king of the Picts, and that Drust succeeded him. Then, in 726, that Drust was driven out, and that Alpin succeeded him. Then two battles between Alpin and Angus, the son of Fergus, at Moncrief and at Caislen Credi, or Scone, in which Alpin was de- feated, and Angus took his territories, while Nec- tan, the son of Derile, resumed the kingdom. Then, in 729, the battle of Monitcarno, be- tween Angus and Nechtan, in which the latter was defeated, and the battle of Drumdearg, between Angus and Drust, king of the Picts, in which the latter was slain. Again, in 775, the "Irish Annals" record the death of Cinadon, regis Pictorum. On examining the differences between these two lists, it wiU be seen that the Latin list mainly inserts kings not to be found in the other, and that these generally belong to the same family. Thus, Garnad is the son of Ferat ; Alpin, who reigns so much longer in the one list than in the other, is also the son of Ferat, and two of the three kings added at the end of the list are likewise sons of Ferat. It is clear, even from the " Pictish Clironicle," that more than one king reigned at the same time in different parts of the country, and it is probable