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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$drave them farre off.For thefe were the nations that troubled the Bretsjnamely,Scots and * Pehits.:: ágainft whom, the Saxonswhiles they maintaine Watres, received of theBretsall things neceflarie.\They'abaile therefore in that country a aodd y lile making s, ufe in civillfert of the BrentsfEiend]hip reciprocally: But fa foone as be Chefiaines of the yy armie [aw the countrey'to be larde and fertile, and witbalithe hinds ofthe Inhabitants low 55 to pracf ife feats of armes: andccnfidered therewith, that themfelves, andthe Qt eatest part s of the Saxons Dad uo certaine place to feat themfelves in, they fend over to-ckll. unto them » a greater power and more forces This having concluded peace with the Scots and Pebits, »5 vide the Land at their pleafure, as if it mere their ownes Thusmuch Witichindus. The origiriall. and Brymologie of the Saxons, like as of-other nations, not onel Monkes ignorant, as they were, inlearned antiquitie, but alfo latter Waiters, being men of fome exact and exquifite iudgraent; have enwrapped with forged & fained fa- bles. . Some derive thein and theirname ftom Saxo,the fonne of Negnon, and bro: ther of Vandalus::othersfrom their ftonie nature : fome froin the temaines of the Macedonian axmie; others of certaine knives;whereupon was made that ryme in Ene gelhufius : »5 Quippe brevis eladius apud illas Saxa Vocatns ; For, Sax, with them, and Short-/word, isthe fame; ; From whence it’s thought, the Saxon tooke his name. But Crantzius deriveth them from the:Catti in Germanie - and that learned Capnio. from thePhrygians. Of thefe, let everie man follow which hee liketh beft: For, fuch conjecturall opinions as thefe; I willnot labor to difproove; Howbeit, that moft noble Nation, and of much worth in Afia, and fo called,as one would fay Saco that Strabo writeth, how thofe Saczx(as before time the Cimerij) made invafions in- to countreys which lay farre off ; and termed a part of Armenia after their owne name Sacacena : Ptolomee alfoplaceth th e Saffones, Suevians, Maffagetes and Da- hi inthat part of Scythia: and Cifner obferverh, that thefe Nations retained the fante vicinitie or neighborhood in a maner in Europe,which was among them infor- mer times when they werein A fia. in Perfia, of whom Hetodotus maketh mention : which they themfelves after a fort doe affirme, by reafon of the affinitie of their Language: for, that fingular Scholar Iofeph Scaliger (heweth, that thefe words, Fader, Moder, Brader, T utchter ,Band,and fuch like, are at this day found in the Perfidnton gue, inthefame fenfe aswe vie, Fa ther, Mother, Brother, Daughter, and Bond: But whenthe Saxons began firftto bee of any name in the world, they had their abode in Cimbrica Cherfone/us, which wee now call Denmarke,wherein Ptolomee placeth them, who was the firft author (as far —— Longi[d, leves v Axónes in armis : And Axons in fide armour light and nimble. — Out of this Cimbries Cherfonefus inthe time of Dioclefi an, they (with the Frankes their neighbours) troubled our coafts and the {eas with Piracie, in fo much asfor the defence of the countrey,and to repellthem, the Romanes made Cataufius their General. Afterwards they having paffed st theriver* Albis,part of chem by kie | 3 en —— Cee eee ———— —9— 3 a te LR Oe m$

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