A. D. 170. 197 



PoRTUS FELIX, the profperous har- 1 C feems Filey bay in York-{hire,near 



bour, or bay of the Gabran- > < wliich is Flix-towii, apparently 



tuiki, 3 L preferving the Roman name. 



DuBRit, Dover. 



PoRTUS Lemanus, apparentlyZ./V«^",though now inland. 



New HARBOUR, feemingly after- 7 „ -. 



wards called Anderida, j -^ -^ J- in Suflex. 



PoRTUS Adurni, the mouth of the Adur 



Magnus portus, or Great harbour, Fort-chefter. 



Menapia, the port for Ireland, St. Davids. 



PoRTUS SeTANTIORUM, or SlSTUN- 7 ,1 n. r T n-- 



> on the coalt or Lancalhire ; 



TIORUM, J ' 



befides fome noted only as ferrying places. 



There were alfo about one hundred and forty ixiore towns or places, 

 the names of which are mentioned in geographical lifts and itineraries ; 

 but we know nothing further of their condition. Some of them un- 

 doubtedly were conftderable, and others appear to have been noted 

 merely as being ftages or refting places for the army or travelers, as 

 fingle inns appear along with towns in modern books of the roads. 



Of the above towns the two marked m were Municipia. In virtue of 

 that diftindion they were invefted with the privilege of enacting laws 

 for the regulation of their own affairs, and they were exempted from 

 being fubjed to thofe of the empire. The inhabitants, without being 

 diverted of the citizenfhip of their native towns, were alfo citizens of 

 Rome. 



The ten marked c were Colonies. Towns of this clafs were occupied 

 by. Romans, and moftly by the legionary foldiers, who received por- 

 tions of land in the neighbourhood as a reward for their fervices, and 

 as an encouragement to be vigilant in fupprefling any attempts of the 

 natives to recover their liberty. Their conftitutions, their courts of 

 juftice, and all their offices were copied from Rome ; and the inhabit- 

 ants were Roman citizens, and governed by Roman laws. 



The ten marked l were invefted with Lat'ian privileges. They were 

 exempted from the ordinary jurifdidtion of the prsetor, and were per- 

 mitted to chute their magiftrates among themfelves ; and thofe magif- 

 trates were invefted with the rank and privileges of Roman citizens. 



The twelve Stipendiary towns marked s were governed by officers de- 

 puted by the praetor *. 



B M affixed to a town mark it as the metropolis of a Britifti nation. 



Several towns in Ireland were now known to geographers, which in- 

 fers, that there was fome trading intercourfe with that ifland, though 



* In this brief account of tlic nature of munklpla, &c. 1 have followed Mr. Whitaker [_Hift. of 

 Manchejler, B. i, c. 8J who may he confulted for the authorities. * 



