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ERGUS II. grandon to Eugene I. acended the throne in the year 404.—Some hitorians will have him to be the firt 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 dipered, greatly haraed the Britons till they called in the Romans to their aitance, in the year 418; his army was then defeated in a pitched battle, and himelf lain in the 16th year of his reign. He left three ons very young, and Graham (from whom the wall of Severus got the name of Graham’s Dyke) their grandfather by the mother’s ide was appointed Guardian over them till they came of age.