¶Of the boundynge of Irlonde Capitulo xxiii. (Book 23)
IRlonde is the laste of all the weste ylōdos and hyghe Hybernia of one Hyberus of Spayne that was Hermonius broder / for these two brethern gate and wanne that londe by conquest. Or it is called Hybernia of that Ryuer Hyderus that is the weste ende of Spa¦yn / and that londe hyghte Scotlonde also / for Scottes dwelled there somtyme er they came into that other Scotlonde that longed to Bry¦tayne / therfore it is wryten in the Martyloge Suche a daye in Scotlond saynt Bryde was borne / and that was in Irlonde. Thys londe hathe in the southeest syde Spayne thre dayes sayllynge thens asyde halfe / and hathe in the eest syde the more Brytayn thens a dayes sayl¦lynge / in the west syde the endles Occean and in the North syde. yselonde thre dayes sayllyn¦ge thens. ¶Solynus. but the see that is bytwe¦ne and Irlonde is all the yere full of grete wa¦wes and vnesy that men may selde ••ayle seker¦ly bytwene that see is a .C. myle brode.