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RicTiard mentions one hundred and seventy-six. To the Scottish 

 antiquary his additions are peculiarly tempting : for he fills up the 

 whole map of Eoman Scotland to the Moray Firth, and plants a muni- 

 cipium on the site of Inverness. No wonder that the Copenhagen 

 edition soon became scarce. A third edition, forming part of Dr. 

 Stukeley's '' Itinerarium Curiosum" in two amply illustrated folio 

 volumes, was issued after his death. In 1809, Hatcher published ano- 

 ther edition, with a translation, commentary, maps, and fac-simile of 

 the MS. A reprint of this followed in 1841 ; and so recently as 1848, 

 it was once more reproduced, as one of " Six Old English Chronicles," 

 edited, with illustrative notes, for "Bohn's Antiquarian Library," by 

 J. A. Gi-iles, D.C.L., late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford : 

 without a hint of any suspicion of its genuineness. 



The time for challenge had seemingly gone by. Authenticated by 

 Gibbon and other historians ; by Whitaker, Roy, and the whole fellow- 

 ship of antiquaries : it seemed befitting later editors to elucidate the 

 text, with no further challenge than consisted with the probable short- 

 comings of a monkish antiquary of the middle ages. Yet the history 

 of the original discovery curiously illustrates the uncritical credulity of 

 that eighteenth century. Bertram, an unknown foreigner, informed 

 Stukeley of the MS. as then " in a friend's hand." By-and-by he is 

 able to state that, not without some difficulty, it has been transferred 

 from its nameless owner to himself. His friend and patron, the privy- 

 councillor Gramm, possibly left on the mind of Dr. Stukeley the im- 

 pression, after perusal of his "prolix and elaborate Latin epistle," that 

 he had seen it. But the privy-councillor died before the MS. was 

 transcribed; Bertram himself died in 1765, and nobody from that day 

 till this ever saw it, or heard of any one who had done so* 



Nevertheless, this work continued, for nearly a century, to be regarded 

 among British scholars as the indispensable hand-book of the Roman 

 antiquary, and still forms a part of some of his most useful text-books. 

 Mr. Ackerman has printed it in his " Archasological Index," as the 

 legitimate sequence to Ptolemy, Antoninus, and the Notitia. Still 

 later, Mr. Thomas Wright has followed his example, and in the appen- 

 dix to his " Celt, Roman, and Saxon," after giving the portion of the 

 Antonine Itinerary relating to Britain, he adds in succession the 

 "Itinerary of Richard," and the "Ravenna List." When his edition 

 of 1852 appeared, the authority of Richard's Tractate had become mat- 

 ter of discussion, and so the author inserts a saving clause to lighten 



