Page:Chronicles of the Picts, chronicles of the Scots, and other early memorials of Scottish history.djvu/81

 PREFACE. Ixxiii " pria Sanctorum " in the " Breviary " was compiled by Bishop Elphinstone in the year 1504, that date has been attached to this form of the legend. 60. Chronicle of the Soots. — This chronicle, chronicle of which is written in the Scottish language, is found in the Eoyal ms. (17. d. xx.), at the end of " Wyn- " toun's Chronicle," and appears to have been tran- scribed about the year 1530, as the writer states that the conquest of the Picts was " donne seiuyn " hundir zeire synne, yat is to say, ye zeire of oure " Lord aucht hundir xxx. and od zeiiis ;" but the chronicle itseK is brought down to the year 1482 only, in which year it may have been compiled. At the end is the signature, William le Neue, York. The latter part, from the year 1400, has been printed in Pinkerton's " History of Scotland " (Vol. i. Ap- pendix, No. xxi.), but the former part has not been previously printed. It is here inserted as fitly concluding the series of Chronicles and Memorials contained in this collection. In the Appendix are inserted several pieces either AppENDii-. illustrative of the foregoing documents, or which the Editor has been unable to place in their proper position in the chronological series. No. i. are pas- sages from the " Origines " of Isidore of Seville, to illustrate the introduction to the "Pictish Chronicle." No. II. is an Irish version of the " Pictish Chronicle " contained in the Trinity College ms. (h. 3. 17.) It is obviously transcribed from an older text, and the scribe appears not to have understood the Latin he 9