Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1928, Page 86

E3HE RomANS cALLED THE INHABITANTS OF NORTHERN BRITAIN "ScoTTi—or ScoTs, - WHICH MEANT "PAINTED PEOPLE’ BECAUSE IT WAS THE CUSTOM OF THESE BARBARIANS To PAINT oR TATTOO THEIR BODIES. © —— —_— it !_ [3com very EARLY TiMES THE NORTHERN PART OF THE ISLAND OF BRITAIN WAS OCCUPIED BY THE SCOTS, AWILD AND WARLIKE PEOPLE RELATED BY RACE AND LANGUAGE Burine e 5™ CENTURY,A.D., BRITAIN WAS INVADED BY HORDES OF ANGLES ,SAXONS AND JUTES FROM EUROPE, MANY OF WHOM SETTLED 1N THE LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND.— ° BN 1290 A .D. SEVERAL MEN CLAIMED THE THRONE OF ScoTLAND, AND KING EPWARD I oF ENGLAND WAS ASKED To SETTLE THE QUESTION. EDWARD DECIDED 1N FAVOR OF JOHN BALIOL, AFTER THE LATTER MAD AGREED 70 BECOME HIS VASSAL, T0 THE WELSH AND IRISH, THE ROMANS, WHO SUBJUGATED ARD HELD A LARGE PART OF BRITAIN (41 70 410,A.D) WERE NEVER ABLE To CONQUER THE ScoTTiSH BARBARIANS, [hiconqUERED, THE ScoTs RETIRED To THE HIGHLANDS, ALTHOUGH MANY MINGLED WiTH THE NEWCOMERS, ENGLISH BECAME THE LANGUAGE OF THE LOWLANDS; GAELIC REMAINED THAT OF THE HIGHLANDS, [} R P EA‘IEQ,'WHEN EDWARD MADE CERTAIN OPPRESSIVE DEMANDS UPON THE SCOTCH, BALIO)L RENOUNCED WIS ALLEGIANCE T0 ENGLAND AN MADE AN ALLIANCE WITH PHILIP THE FAIR OF FRANCE; WHO WAS EPWARDS ENEMY. — © RdHE RELIGION OF THE EARLY SCOTS WAS THAT OF THE DRUIDS. THEY WORSHIPPED OAK TREES, AND> BELIEVED IN SIGNS Baur Cosmea, A MISSIONARY FROM ‘TRELAND; INTROPUCED CHRISTIANITY INTO SCOTLAND IN 563 AD THEY RAISED LARGE HERDS OF CATTLE ON THE GRASSLANDS, FISHED IN THE MOUNTAIN LAKES AND STREAMS AND HUNTED IN THE WOODED HILLS. B3 HcRe WAS CONTINUAL WARFARE BETWEEN THE MIGHLANDERS AND LOWLANDERS. WHEN NOT RAIDING THE LOWLANDERS, THE HIGHLAND CLANS WERE FI GHTING AMONG THEMSELVES - © M\cCl 3 te gaoa.mmue BALIOL A REBEL AND A TRAITOR, THE ERGLISH KING INVADED SCOTLAND WITH A LARGE ARMY, IN THE FIGHTING THAT FOLLOWED, THEE ENGLISH WERE VICTORIOUS, —* AL AL ey WERE PIVIDED NTo CLANS oR TRIBES. EACH CLAN WAS INDEPENDENT, UNDER ITS OWN CHIEFTAIN, AND WORE A SPECIAL PLAID OR TARTAN TO DIS- TINGUISH IT FROM OTHER CLANS. — ¢ [FER MANY YEARS THE HIGHLANDS AND THE LOWLANDS BECAME ONE COUNTRY UNDER THE RULE OF A LINE OF $coTT|$H KINGS WHO MADE EPINBURGH THEIR CAPITAL . Ebwmp TRIED To ADD ScoTLAND To HIS KINGDOM, BUT THE ScoTs REFUSED TO SUBMIT, AND BEGAN A DESPERATE STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE THEIR INDEPENDENCE. ————* If You Save This Page Each Week You Will Have a Complete History' of Man,