154 A. D. 6i. 



Euabliiliments founded in rapine and injuftice mufl; be in conflan 

 dread from the revenge of the oppreUed. During the reign of Nero 

 the infolence of the ioldiery, and the extortions of the procurator and 

 his fubordinate tax-gatherers, were carried to a pitch beyond all pofli- 

 bility of endurance. Prafutag, king of the Iceni, an opulent prince, 

 endeavoured to purchafe the forbearance and pi-otedion of the Roman 

 government, with the fafe pofTeflion of a moderate fortune, for his two 

 daughters, by the facrifice of one half of his kingdom and property, 

 which he left by his will to the emperor. But he had not read the hif- 

 tory of Egypt or Afia, to know what kind of guardians the Romans 

 were to princes in their minority. Immediately after his death, inflead 

 of the prote6tion his family hoped for, his kingdom, and even his houfe, 

 were feized upon, his relations were treated like flaves, the virgin prin- 

 ceffes were made the vidims of brutal lull, and Boadicia, the queen, 

 was ignominioufly fcourged like the vileft criminal. Such atrocities 

 excited the warmeft refentment in a people not inured to llavery : the 

 Britifh fpirit was roufed : and a great army was foon in the field under 

 the command of the injured queen, who, taking advantage of the ab- 

 fence of the Roman governor in the weft, immediately burnt Camulo- 

 dunum and Verulam, and facrificed to her revenge every Roman in 

 them, and all thofe who had not abandoned London. She alfo engag- 

 ed, and cut to 'pieces the moft of, the ninth legion ; a legion deftined to 

 fufFer by Britifli valour in both ends of the illand. But at laft the fpirit 

 of this noble heroine, and the undifciplined valour of her army, were 

 found unable to contend with two other Roman legions under the com- 

 mand of the experienced Paulinus. Her death foon after put an end to 

 the war, in which near tv/o hundred thoufand of Bricifli and Roman 



calls it Zij^iAWam, as does alfo the Itinerary of An- times writes it with o) William of Ncwburgh, 



toniniis. Ptolemy has Londitiion, wherein the on- Roger Hovcdeii, Ralph Diceto (who was dean of 



ly difTercnce is the Greek termination. Heddius Lundon), and feveral other Englifii hillorians who 



and Bedc (in foine editions, for others have Lnn- wrote in Latin, all iiave Liirii/ in the beginning of 



donia) the oldcil of the Anglo-Saxon writers, in the name. And the old Scottilh writers alfo wrote 



their Latin works call it Lont/onia, in imitation of it in the fame manner, as appears in the Chronicle 



the Romans, moll of whom followed Tacitus, of Melros and Wyntown's Chronicle. Since tlic 



And a few of the coins of the Anglo-Saxon kings revival of literature the fpclling of London has 



have Land (ox the initial part of tlie name. On been fupported by the gnat elalTical authority of 



the other hand, Ammianus Marc-llinus, a Roman Tacitus, and by Bcde, alfo and ilefcrvcdly a great 



author, writes Lund'jitium and Lundinium. The authority ; though every body pronounces Lun- 



greatell part of the Anglo-Saxon coins (prints of dun, in perfeCl conformity to what I conceive to 



which may be fctn in Hickes's Thefaurus) and be the genuine original name. 



fome editions of Bcde have Lund for the initial. As to the fabulous name of Troynovaiitum, if it 



The Saxon Clironicle, written by different Ijands had any foundation at all, it may have been Tr^ 



in fucctlTive ages, lias Luntlenc, Lundone, Lundunc, Novant, llgnifying in Welfli ihi town of the No- 



l.uiiden-byrig, Lundtn-burh, and Luiukn-ivic. •y<7«/fj', whofe capital it may have. become ^ftcr the 



Kin-T Alfred writes it Lunihn-ccn/Ier. Nennius, dellruflion of Camulodunum : for there is no fuf- 



an antient Welfh writer, has Cair-I.unden ; and the ficient authority for the ad'ertion of fome modern 



preftnt Wclflt write Llundain. Ethelwerd, l'1o- writers, that London was dtlhoyed or burnt by 



renee, Eadmcr, William of Malmlbury, Henry of Boadicia. 

 Huntington, Simeon of Durham (who alfo fome- 



