THE CANADIAN JOURNAL. 



NEW SERIES 



No. LIX.— SEPTEMBEH, 1865. 



NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 



Paet XII.— the governors OP ROMAN BRITAIN. 



BY THE REV. JOHN M^CAUL, LL.D., 

 PEESIDBWT OP UNITEESITT COHEGB, TOEONTO, ETC. 



75. The succession of the Imperial Legates is so important an 

 element in fixing the chronology of the Roman period in British 

 history, that an accurate discussion of the subject cannot fail to be 

 useful ; especially as, so far as I am aware, no correct list has yet 

 been published. Such an examination, then, with reference not 

 merely to historic, but also to epigraphic records, will form the 

 subject of the present communication. 



Before entering into particulars, it may be advantageous to take 

 a general view of the government of Roman Britain. 



For the first three centuries, from the time of Claudius to that 

 of Constantine, the Governor of the island was Legatus Augusti Pro 

 Preetore, and also Consularis. To him was confided the civil and 

 military administration of the Province. The next in authority, 

 under him, was the Procurator, the fiscal agent of the Emperor; 

 and, in the absence of both, the government was administered, for 

 the time, by the Legati Legionum. See Tacitus, Hist, i., 60. 



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