Britain, or a chorographicall description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Ilands adioyning, out of the depth of antiqvitie : beavtified with mappes of the severall Shires of England / written first in Latine by William Camden ; Translated newly into English by Philémon Holland.

William Camden

Date:: 1610

Credit: Britain, or a chorographicall description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Ilands adioyning, out of the depth of antiqvitie : beavtified with mappes of the severall Shires of England / written first in Latine by William Camden ; Translated newly into English by Philémon Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$be CX ‘tes upon the Comes. CONIECTVRES AS TO V- | ching the Briti/h (omnes. 7 aec ‘Othe Britans Coines, the portraiéts wheréof I have here [5/7 {hewed, you looke; haply, that T'{hould-adjoyne fome 25 briefenotesalfo. But what to adjoyne of fuch things as sv cherevolution of fomany ages pait,hath altogether over- | M— 8€ eatt with darknefle, to protefle plainély,Lfee not: and ^ $3 | B your felfe,when you fhall read thefe (lender chefles of mine, willàvouch i with me, that I walke in à mirkeaud miftie night of ignorance. Tharthe old Britans ufed braffe money, or rings, or elfe plates of yron tried toà cértaime jult weight, have declaredalréady before,out of Csfar : and there be, who averre, that they have feene fome of thefe found in little pitchers. Befides thefe, found there are otherwhiles in this Ifland, peeces of gold, filver, and braffe of fundry fafhions, and as different in poife * all'torthe molt part of the one fide hollow :'fome without letters, others with exprefle infcriptions of letters; of which fort, I could never heare that aay havé been digged up elfewhere, untill C fuch time as Nicolaus Fabricius de Petrifco, a right noble younz'Gentle- | man of Provance in France, one for fuch antiquities, and old Medals or | peecesof money, pafsing skilfull and-of iudicious infight; verie/lately | | had fhewed me the like founidin France. But to come unto thefe of ours, | which I have here propofed. | | Joi 1131 |. “The firft is a :coine of ‘Cunobelinus; who flourifhed in the daies of ) Auguftus and Tiberius: wherein, if I deceive not my felfe , are engra- ven the heads of two-faced Ianus: peradventure, becaufe even: at that E. timeBritaine began to cait off andleave their barbarous rudeneffe. For | we read, how Ianus was the firft, that changed babarous maners into p civill behaviour , and therefore was depainted with two fore-heads, to figuifie, that he had of one fhapemade another. Thefecond alfo is Cunobelinus Coine, fhewing his face, and inferip- | tion| of the one fide ] and the Coiner or Mint-maiter on the other,with ) this word T A sc 14 fetto it, which word among the Britans, betoken- Tasctas eth a Tribute Pemye , as Matter David Powell, a man moft skilfull in the Britifh language hath enformed me: and is derived perhaps of the La- | tine; Taxatio, For, the Britans acknowledge not X; for their letter. And ME by the famereafon theinfcription of M o N E T 4, is feen oft times in pee- ces of Roman money. | | I E Inlikemaner;thethird is a Coine of the fame Cunobelinus, with an | .horfe and Cv x o --witlia corne cárealfo, and/C wv, (as it fhould | feeme) for Camalodunum , which was the Roiall citie and feat of Cuno- eee. belinus: ^ | 2l See in Harte Thefourth with Ver, may be thought a Coine of the V oe. ford frre, The ee rE Qc RES Bi$

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