Page:Chronicles of the Picts, chronicles of the Scots, and other early memorials of Scottish history.djvu/73

PEEFACE. Ixv " dredi contra regem Anglie in quodam libello scrip to " per Alanum de Monross habetur cum multis literis " ad eandem litem pertinentibus." The Editor has printed his text from the Edinburgh College MS., collated with the Donibristle MS. ; but he has printed Hearne's edition below, to show the variations between the two. The "Processus" by Baldred Bisset does not re- quire to be treated in the same way, as the text is nearly the same in all the mss. 36. Chronicle of the Picts and Scots. — ciironicieof the Picts and This chronicle is contained in a ms. of the four- Scots. teenth century, in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps of Middlehill. It very closely resembles the chronicle which was contained in the register of the priory of St. Andi-ews (No. xxix.), and the same mistake occurs in it of adding a century to the duration of the Scottish monarchy. The "summa " annorum" from Kenneth Macalpinis here stated to be 567 years, and, deducting the added century, and calculating the duration from the year of Kenneth Macalpin, viz., 850, this gives 1317 as the date of the compilation of the chronicle. The date of the MS. corresponds with this period. It may be observed, with regard to this chronicle, that it states the num- ber of Pictish kings prior to Kenneth as sixty-five. This corresponds very closely with the statement in the old Pictish poem, page 44, in which the number of the Pictish kings is stated to be sixty-six ; but on comparing this chronicle with the " Chronicle of