In ea prius habitabant quatuor et gentes; Scoti, Picti, atque Saxones, Britones.—Nennius, _Hist. Brit._ 2. Omnes nationes et provincias Britanniæ, quæ in quatuor linguas, id est, Brettonum, Pictorum, Scottorum, et Anglorum divisae sunt, in ditione accepit.—Bede, _Ec. Hist._ iii. c. vi. Gildas terms the latter people simply Saxones. Bede, in narrating their settlement, ‘Gens Anglorum sive Saxonum.’ Footnote 109: Procopius makes the important statement that, after the departure of Constantine, although the Romans were unable to recover the island, the kingly government did not cease and the island fall into anarchy; but ‘that it remained subject to tyrants.’—Procop. _Bel. Van._ i. 2. Footnote 110: St. Patrick tells us in his _Confessio_ that his father lived at Bannavem Taberneæ, and in his epistle to Coroticus that he was a ‘decurio.’ Footnote 111: Interea fames dira ac famosissima vagis ac nutabundis hæret, quæ multos eorum cruentis compellit prædonibus sine delatione victas dare manus, ut pauxillum ad refocillandam animam cibi caperent, alios vero nusquam; quin potius de ipsis montibus, speluncis ac saltibus, dumis consertis continue rebellabant. Et tum primum inimicis per multos annos in terra agentibus, strages dabant.—Gild. _de Excidio Brit._ 17. Footnote 112: Ab aquilone; strictly north-north-east. Footnote 113: Pro indigenis. Footnote 114: See Fordun, _Chron._ vol. ii. p. 380, note. Footnote 115: ‘Post intervallum vero multorum annorum non minus octingentorum Picti venerunt et occupaverunt insulas quae vocantur Orcades, et postea ex insulis vastaverunt regiones multas, et occupaverunt eas in sinistrali plaga Britanniæ, et manent ibi usque in hodiernam diem, tertiam partem Britanniæ tenentes.’ The previous paragraph shows that he counted the 800 years from the traditionary settlement of the Britons, which he places in the time when Eli judged Israel, that is, in the twelfth century before Christ. Footnote 116: Ut perhibent. Footnote 117: Bede, _Hist. Ec._ i. § 7. Footnote 118: Prædicaturus verbum Dei provinciis septentrionalium Pictorum, hoc est, eis quæ arduis atque horrentibus montium jugis, ab australibus eorum sunt regionibus sequestratæ. Namque ipsi australes Picti, qui intra eosdem montes habent sedes, etc.—Bede, _Hist. Ec._ B. iii. c. 4. Footnote 119: These Cruithnigh are repeatedly mentioned by Adamnan in his Life of St. Columba, who wrote between the years 692 and 697. See ed. 1874, pp. 120, 146, 253. In the Life of St. Cadroë we find, ‘Igitur ad terram egressi, ut moris est, situm locorum, mores et habitum hominum explorare, gentem Pictaneorum reperiunt.’—_Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 108. Footnote 120: