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IV. ucceeded Kenneth I. and was the on of Aidan, who being nominated king by Kinnatel, and confirmed by the people, was, in the year 570, intalled by Columba, a man of great authority. He cleared the province of Galloway of many bands of robbers that infeted it: afterwards, he invaded the territory of Ethelfred king of the Northumbrians, and gained ome coniderable advantages over him; but, at lat, received uch a mortifying defeat, that, on his return home, he died of grief. The city of Edinburgh is aid to be indebted to this Monarch for her origin and name. Eugene enjoyed the throne peaceably ixteen years.

, on of Eudenius VII. began to reign in the year 731, and governed the