A Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain, or Scotland. Containing an Account of the Romans, of the Britains betwixt the Walls, of the Caledonians or Picts, and particularly of the Scots. With an Appendix of ancient MS. Pieces.

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The first edition of this important critical history of Scotland, which, despite the author's own biases, offered a necessary corrective to the myths which had formed the basis of previous histories. 'In this work he used precise historical methods to refute the mythic history of Scottish kings. Yet Innes had his own agenda, to vindicate primogeniture in the interest of the Jacobite cause, and his substitution of the Pictish line of kings is exceedingly suspect' (ODNB).