Volume 1
A collection of curious discourses / written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities. Together with Mr. Thomas Hearne's preface and appendix to the former edition. To which are added a great number of antiquary discourses written by the same authors. Most of them now first published from the original manuscripts.
- Date:
- 1771
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A collection of curious discourses / written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities. Together with Mr. Thomas Hearne's preface and appendix to the former edition. To which are added a great number of antiquary discourses written by the same authors. Most of them now first published from the original manuscripts. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![N° LriL Of the Antiquity of the Name of Duke ins England. By An o n y m ous, 25 th November 159B. W^E have receaved this worde duke from theFrenche, and from the Latine worcie dux, which derived from ducci, doth comprife in fignificarion not only guides, but alfo leaders in warre, as well thofe of particular com¬ panies, as the genera] 1 of whole armies. And in no other fence is that pafTage in Tacitus to be underflode, where he fays, that the Germans, our progenifours Regcs ex nobili- iate, duces ex virtute fumiint. Under the Roman emperours about the tyme of iElius Veins, as I gather out of Spartianus, not only leaders ia warre, but alfo governors of marches, and outmoffc borders, beganne firfb to be called Duces. And in that notable re¬ cord e of the Rom an e Empire, No tit i a Provinciarnm, there are fpecified 12 duces, which had charge of the limits in5 the weft empire, amonge whom dux Britanniarum was one. Yet if I fhould translate, I would not tranllate dux Britanniarum, duke of Brit ay ne, for it appeareth oute of Eufebius, where he fheweth how Conffantine the Create in¬ vented new degrees of dignities, that dux was inferior to’ comes, and the fame appeareth alio in Caffiodorus. After the fall of the Rotnane Empire, this worde dux was flill retained by the Lombards in Italy for a governor, as is: manifefl by Paulus Diaconus, where he fheweth how after the death of Clephus, diverfe duces were appointed to go¬ vern the territories. That it was then a name of a judicial! office rather than of honor, I gather by the patents, whereby they were made duces, the tenor wherof is this taken out of Vol.I. Z Marculphus9](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30537885_0001_0273.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
