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He was taken back to London, and placed on a government pension.
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James Henrisoun
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Henrisoun used the term "Great Britain", which may have been a neologism for the Scots language. His Godly and Golden Booke (1548) argued strongly that England and Scotland should become a single Protestant nation. He wished to abandon the terms "Scots" and "Englishmen", appealing to an underlying ethnicity of blood that was largely British.
In dealing with the myth of origins of the Scots, Henrisoun attacked Hector Boece, and his credulity in the matter of the Gathelus myth.
He managed the dating of the arrival of Gaels in what is now Scotland with fair accuracy. At this period the mythological setting was significant.
