Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae (England, Scotland, Ireland). The old writers generally agreed to call them BRITTANIC� INSUL�, the British Islands. It was so named not after that treacherous Brutus, the bloody father killer, as the fabulous historian Geoffrey of Monmouth has till now tried to make the world believe, against all reason, authority and historical truth; nor from the Welsh word Prydain as the learned British Humfrey Lhoyd thought, but after Brit, a Celtish word which signifies Painted. For these people, as C�sar and other old writers report, used to paint their bodies, and therefore were called BRITONES by the French, their nearest neighbours.” from text on back of map translated by Marcel van den Broecke”