1 8 History of the English Landed Interest. 



fashions, all for the most part of the one side hollow." There is, 

 for example, the coin of Cunobelius,^ with a horse, the word 

 Camo, and a " corne ear." There was another impressed with a 

 swine, another with a "bull boaking with his homes," another 

 with a " horse ill favouredly portraied," some with trees and 

 some with people's heads. He conjectures that these various 

 coins represented either the agistment or tribute dues ; but he 

 shall be heard in his own language. " Considering that Csesar 

 had appointed what customs or imports the Britons should 

 pay yearly, and whereas under Augustus they endured those 

 payments for portage or toll, as well in carrying forth as bring- 

 ing in commodities, by little and little other tributes also were 

 imposed upon them, to wit for corne grounds, plant plots, 

 groves or parks, pasturage of greater and smaller beastes, as 

 being subdued now to obey as subjects, and not to serve as 

 slaves, I have been of opinion that these pieces of money were 

 stamped at first for that use, namely, for greater beasts with 

 an horse ; for smaller, with a swine ; for woods, with a tree ; 

 for corne fields, with an eare of corne, as in that piece of the 

 Verolamians which carried the inscription Vero. As for those 

 with the head of a man or woman, they may seem stamped for 

 the tribute Capitatio, which was personal, and imposed upon 

 the poll or person of every one, of women from the twelfth, of 

 men from the fourteenth, yeere of their age, which imposition 

 Bunduica, or Bodicia, a queen of the Britans, complaineth of 

 in these words : ' Yee doe both grase and also plough for the 

 Roman. Yea, yee pay an yearlie tribute in respect of your 

 verie bodies.' " 



Camden reminds us that Dio has described the Britons as 

 very much less hampered by the Roman yoke than the Jews 

 of the same period.- Both nations were tributaries of Rome 

 from the time of Julius Caesar to that of Claudius. The 

 Britons, however, made their own laws, elected their own 

 rulers, and very likely stamped their pol silver with images 

 and superscriptions of their own Idngs, whereas the /cevcro? of 

 Judsea invariably bore Csesar's image and superscription. 



* Camden Britannia Conjectures as touching the British Coines. 

 - Compare also Mommsen, lioman Provinces (chap, on Judsea). 



