title: The Peoples of the British Isles: A New History : From Prehistoric Times to 1688
author: Stanford E. Lehmberg
description: Stanford E. Lehmberg (PhD, Cambridge University; MA, University of Kansas) is professor emeritus of history at the University of Minnesota and has written numerous articles and eight books including, The Reformation of Cathedrals: Cathedrals in English Society, 1485 1603. A former Fulbright Scholar and recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, he has also received a Distinguished Teacher Award from the University of Minnesota.<br><br>Samantha A. Meigs (B.A., M.A., University of Colorado; Ph.D. Northwestern University) is associate professor of History at the University of Indianapolis. Recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Ireland and an N.E.H. Summer Grant for her current research on Highland Scotland, she is author of The Reformations in Ireland: Tradition and Confessionalism, 1400 1690.
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  Notes from James history of England
  
  
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  The history of all ancient nations is much involved in obscurity, uncertainty,
  and contradiction. But as these adventures of barbarous nations even if they
  were correctly recorded could afford no entertainment to men born in a more
  cultivated age this uncertainty is not to be regretted. All Ancient writers
  agreed in representing the first inhabitants of Britain as a tribe of Gauls or
  Belta who setteled that island from the neighboring continent. The south-east
  parts of Britain had allready, before the age of Reason made the requisite
  step towards a civil settlement by the introduction of tillage & agriculture.
  The other inhab