He will have it, (and merely because he will have it,) that the Cumberland, yielded by King Edmund to Malcolm I., meant not only the county in England of that name, but all the territory northwards to the Clyde.

But the case of Lothian deserves some more consideration.
It is certain that, in very ancient language, Scotland means only the country north of the Friths of Clyde and Forth.

I shall not make a parade of literature to prove it; because I do not find that this point is disputed by the Scots themselves.

The southern country was divided into Galloway and Lothian; and the latter comprehended all the south-east counties.

This territory was certainly a part of the ancient kingdom of Northumberland, and was entirely peopled by Saxons, who afterwards received a great mixture of Danes among them.