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" brid beyond the bridge, fo frequent, 

 " that the Welfhmen called it Treboetb, 

 " that is, burnt town^ they tell us alfo 

 ' that there was a long wall made there 

 " ofWelmmen'sfculls."* 



In the time of Hugh Lupus the port of 

 Chefter appears to have arrived at fome 

 degree of confequence. The exports con- 

 fifted in ilaves,-j* (for this inhuman traffic 



was 



* Gibf. Camden, 559. 



t " Here is a town called Brichftow (Brlftol) 

 " oppofite to Ireland, and extremely convenient 

 " for trading with that country. Wulfjlan induced 

 " them to drop a barbarous cuftom, which neither 

 <f the love of God nor the king, could prevail on 

 " them to lay afide. This was the market for 

 " flaves collected from all parts of England. It 

 " was a moft moving fight to fee in the public 

 " markets, rows of young people of both fexes 

 " tied together with ropes ; of great beauty and 

 " in the flower of their youth, daily proftituted, 

 " daily fold. Execrable fad ! wretched difgrace ! 

 84 " merj 



