1 6 Hydriotaphia, 



of thefe parts, before the new InfHtuti. 

 on cfiCmflantine^ and military charge of 

 the Count of the S^x^fhore, and that 

 about the Saxon Invafions, the ^DdniAtitn 

 Horfemen were in the Gar rife n of Bran- 

 cafter : Yet in the time of cUudius, rt- 

 jpa/?a0y and Severe , we finde no leiTe 

 then three Legions difpcrfed through 

 the Province of Britain. And as high as 

 ehe Reign of Claudia a great overthrow 

 was given unto the Iceni, by the Romane 

 Lieutenant ojtorm. Not long after the 

 Countrey was fo mole fted, that in hope 

 of a better ftate, Prdfta*gu* bequeathed 

 his Kingdome unto Nero and his Daugh 

 ters 3 and Boadtcea his Queen fought the 

 laft dccifive Battle with Paulina. Af 

 ter which time and Conqueft of Agrictl* 

 the Lieutenant of Vt^afian^ probable it is 

 they wholly poOefled this Countrey, or 

 dering it into Garrifonsor Habitations, 

 beft fuitable with their fecurities. Aid 

 fo fome Romanc Habitations^ not impro 

 bable in thefc parts, as high as the time 

 ofr$a/tao y where the Saxons after (cat- 

 cd, in whofe thin-fill'd Mappcs we yet 

 finde the Name of Wdjingkam. Now 

 if the IP^I were but qammadims, Anco- 



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