LORN.
SOmewhat higher toward the North lyeth LORN, bearing the best kinde of barley in great plentie, and divided with Leaue a vast and huge lake:* 1.1 by which standeth Berogomum a castle, in which sometime was kept the Court of Justice, or Session: [ D] and not farre from it Dunstafag, that is, Stephens Mount, the Kings house in times past: above which Logh Aber, a Lake in∣sinuating it selfe from out of the Westerne sea, windeth it selfe so farre within land, that it had conflowed together with Nesse, another Lake run∣ning into the East sea, but that certaine mountaines betweene kept them with a verie little partition asunder. The chiefest place of name in this tract is Tarbar in Logh Kinkeran, where King James the fourth ordained a Justice and Sheriffe, to admini∣ster justice unto the Inhabitants of the out Islands. These countries and those beyond them,* 1.2 in the yeere of our Lords Incarnation 655. the Picts held: whom Bede cal∣leth the Northern Picts, where hee reporteth, that in the said yeere Columbane a [ E] Priest and Abbat, famous for his Monkish profession and life, came out of Ireland into Britaine, to instruct these in Christian religion, that by meanes of the high rough ridges of the mountaines were sequestred from the Southerne countries of the Picts: and that they, in lieu of a reward, allowed unto him the Iland Hii, over against them, now called I-Comb-Kill, of which more in place convenient. The Lords of Lorna in the age aforegoing were the Stewarts: but now, by reason of a female their heire, the Earles of Argile; who use this title in their honourable stile.
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