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Queen of ancient Britain; and the armed host 
is assembled in Epping Forest. London there 
was none, for the London of that time had just 
been reduced to ashes by the followers of Queen 
Boadicea. Her story may be briefly told. Her 
husband, who was King of the Iceni, a tribe 
of ancient Britons inhabiting the counties of 
Norfolk and Suffolk, had, at his death, left his 
dominions to be divided equally between the 
Roman invaders and his wife and daughters, 
thinking that by that means he might conciliate the 
Romans. But his plan failed. The Roman pro- 
curator seized the whole, and subjected Boadicea 
and her daughters to the most vile indignities. 
Enraged beyond measure at this treatment, the 
brave Queen rallied her faithful followers around 
her. They fell upon the enemy, burnt London and 
Verulam—then flourishing Roman colonies—to 
the ground, and destroyed seventy thousand of 
the foe. Then came the rallying of the native 
troops, the encampment in Epping Forest, and 
the scene which we have attempted briefly to 
describe. 
But now the page of history darkens. True, a 
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