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 lii PREFACE. The Life of St. Patrick, by Joceline. Genealogy of King William the Lyon. Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia HiberniiB. Chronicle of the Scots and Picts. printed, but this is the only event recorded in them which relates to Scotland. 20. The Life of St. Patrick, by Joceline. — This passage is given from Joceline in illustra- tion of the passage previously extracted from the Irish " Tripartite Life," and as a later form of the same legend. It has been coUated with two MSS. in the Bodleian. Joceline wrote in the year 1185. 21. Genealogy of King William the Lyon. — This little tract has not been before printed. It is taken from one of the Cottonian MSS. (Faustina, A. VIII.), and bears on the margin the date of 1185. 22. Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia Hi- BERNi^. — As one of the most important notices of the Picts is printed in this collection from an unpublished MS. of Giraldus, it has been deemed advisable to insert here, under its proper date, the passages which relate to Scotland in his " Topogra- " phia Hibernise." The mss. of this work are very numerous, but the passages have been collated with two MSS. in the Bodleian. 23. Chronicle of the Scots and Picts. — This chronicle has not hitherto been printed. It is con- tained in a MS. in the Advocates' Library (34. 7. 3.), written by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dun- blane, in the reign of James the Fifth. The chronicle itself, however, is an older com^josition. It contains within it the indication of its own date in the state- ment, " Summa Scotorum post Pictos cccxxxvii. anni " et V. menses." Taking the year 850 as the era from