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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$— = eee À—À ee ae rit ntl men | -——————— M € TORE EG ra X. DM Oz Romans in Britaine. and by nightcame. to the palace as he was willed. Where,being admitted tothe Princes pre-' fy fencesand received with a hort falutation aud nofpeech;he forted himfelfe with the reft of. Saluftius Lu- the xd asd T. : Hà n : A j valu Licate~ Agricolahadfor his fucceffor,as others thinke,Cn.Trebellius.but,as I take it, Sa- nant generall ]uftius Lucullus,whom Domitian ftraight after flew,becaufe he fuffered certain {pears RUE of anew fafhionto be called. Lucullez.: At which time alfo,Arviragus flourifhed in Piitan, this Iand,and not in the daies of Claudius , as Geffrey of Monmouth dreameth. For thefe verfes of Iuvenall are to be underftood of Domitian: ESL (ete Omen babes magni clarig, triumphi : Regem aliquem capies aut de temone Britanne Excidet * Arviragui— — A P A powrcfull Offe and figne thou haft,prefaging triumph great: | Some king(fure)thou fhalt prifoner take in chace or battell heat: Or els Arviragus fhall lofe his Britifh roiallfeat. RufnaaBri- There flourithed likewife at Rome ClaudiaRufina,a Britifh dame, paffing well Jear- tithDame. ned and withall as beautifull, whom Martiall commendeth in thefe verfes; Claudia ceruleis cum (it Rufina Britannis Edita,cur * Latia pectora plebis babet ? JD uale decus forma? Romanam credere matres Italides poffunt , Aithides e[fe fuam. C Sith from blew Britans Claudia Rufina doth defcend, ji s How comes alearned Latian grace her perfon to commend? eroffe headed Whatbeauty ? Italian dames may her aRomane make: fellow, And Attick wives again full well, her for their daughter take. This was, as lohn Bale and Matthew Parker Arch-bifhop of Canterbury have writ- ten,the very fame woman,ofwhom S.Paul maketh mention in his latter Epiftle to Timothy) neither is the computation oftimes repugnant, howfoever others be of a contrary opinion. Thus under the Empire of Domitian, when that farther part therof,as being rough Sides ONE unfruitfull,was left unto the barbarous Britans, this hither fide was reduced fullD comeaPro- and whole into the forme ofa province : VVhich was not governed by any Confular vince. ot Proconfular deputy,but was counted *Prefidialis, & appropriate to the Cafars :as *The old {choliaft up- on Íuvenal calleth him Arbila. *By the like phrafein ano- ther Epigram he faith, 4b- deritane pecto. va plebis babets {peaking ofa Britaine a : ; : ae S Prefidiall ^ Deinga province annexed unto the Roman Empire after the divifion of Provinces or- X ; deined by Auguftus, and had Propretors of their own. Afterwards when as Conftan- A3overne under Empe- titius Maximus had fet down a new forme of Common-weale,under a Prefect or Pro- rors, with ga. Voft of Pretors degree of Gaule,there was fet over it a vicegerent,and together with rifonslying him in matters of war the*Count or Earle of Britaine, an Earle or Count of the Sax- ~comer,here, ony coatt by Britaine : and a Duke or Generall of Britain , befides Prefidents, Audi- asmuchasa tors or Receivers and fuch others. Moreover,out of thofe 29 Legions, which the Ro- eil mans had appointed thorow their Imperiall government, three ofthem lay in garifon E Whaegi- to reftrain that Province,to wit, the fecond Legion Augufta,the fixt Legion rix, om at i^ andthe twentith viZrix.But this is meant of the time of Severus:For before,we learn Dio.55. out of Authors,that other Legions there were, and more in number. And although Strabo writeth that there wasneed ofno more than one band of fouldiers, to the kee- ping of Britaine infübie&ion, yetin theraigne of Claudius there wereplaced here, thefecond Legion Augufta, the ninth Legion Hifpanienfis, andthe fourteenth na- med Gemina Martiavidirix. Yeaand about the time of Vefpafian,Iofephus fheweth, that foure Legions fervedin this Iland : Britaine, faith hee , compaffed about withthe Ocean, and almoft as big as our world. The Romanes there inhabiting have brought itun- der their dominion, and foure Legions dae keepin fubiection an land, peopled with fo great E. amultitude. And doubtleffe;the ftanding guards and Camps of Legions andRomane The begin- í : A ningofCi- fouldiers, were many times the Seminaries, asit were and Seed-plots of Cities and EhéRómine et ee other Provinces,fo alfo in this our Britaine. Thus was the yoke of fubie- yoke, ction laid upon the Britans,firft by a garifon of fouldiers , which alwaies with terror wereready to command the Inhabitants, afterwards by tribute and impofts; and in E : . that Ty$

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