LIVES
OF THE
MOST CELEBRATED ANCIENT
KINGS OF SCOTLAND.
FERGUS II. grandſon to Eugene I. aſcended the throne in the year 404.—Some hiſtorians will have him to be the firſt monarch of Scotland. However, it is pretty plain that he was a native, and that, after returning into Scotland from exile, he, with the help of the Danes, Goths, and his own countrymen, who were gathered unto him out of all countries where they had been diſperſed, greatly haraſſed the Britons till they called in the Romans to their aſſiſtance, in the year 418; his army was then defeated in a pitched battle, and himſelf ſlain in the 16th year of his reign. He left three ſons very young, and Graham (from whom the wall of Severus got the name of Graham’s Dyke) their grandfather by the mother’s ſide was appointed Guardian over them till they came of age.
