Page:Chronicles of the Picts, chronicles of the Scots, and other early memorials of Scottish history.djvu/75

PREFACE. Ixvii son Kenneth, and he, by Culen the son of Indulf ; and this variation is to be found alone in the " Chronicle of Huntingdon." 39. Chronicles of the Scots. — These chronicles chronicles of are taken from a document in one of the Cot- tonian MSS. (Vitellius, A. xx.) bearing the title of " Historia "AngUae a Bruto ad annum Domini, " 1348," and the MS. appears to be of the fourteenth century. They have not been hitherto printed. The second of the two chronicles is obviously a copy of part of the " Chronicle of St. Andrews," as it closely corresponds with it, and the " summa annorum " is the same, viz., 501 years. The prologue is taken verbatim from Higden's " Polycronicon." 40. Chronicle of the Scots. — This chronicle ciironicie of has been printed from one of the Harleian MSS. (1808). The "summa annorum," from Kenneth Mac - alpiri to William the Lyon, is stated to be 506 years, which is an obvioiis mistake, and the chronicle must have been compiled at a later date, and probably by an Englishman, as it shows great ignorance of the history during the latter part. Thus, Henry, the son of David the First, is made to have reigned after him, and the three sisters, Margareta, Ysabella, and Ada, the daughters of his youngest son David, Earl of Huntingdon, are here made the daughters of King David the First and the sisters of Henry. The date 1465 has been added in a different hand, but the Editor is of opinion that the chronicle cannot have been written after the publication of Fordun's his- tory, and that it belongs to the fourteenth century.