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ftructed for the accommodation of mercantile fleets *, and mo- 

 ney coined for the medium of trade. The coinage of Cuno- 

 BELINE, the fucceflbr of Cassibelanus, and Sovereign of the 

 Caflii and Trinobantes, from the mints of Colchefter, Verulam 

 and London, is a proof, not only of an extenfive commerce, 

 but of very confiderable advancement in the arts f. 



In this interval, therefore, between the invafion of CassAR 

 and the reign of Claudius, this period of rapid improvement, 

 it is probable the Britons of the fouth firft learned the art of 

 conftructing durable buildings with mortar; though we do not 

 find from any clafhc author, that, before the reign of Nero, 

 the Romans had erected any buildings in the ifland which 

 could ferve as a model of regular architecture. In the fifth 

 year of the Emperor Nero happened that fignal defeat of the 

 Romans by the Britifh Queen Boadicea, occanoned princi- 

 pally by the revolt, or, as Tacitus terms it, the rebellion of 

 the Trinobantes. One great caufe of this revolt had been the 

 erection of a magnificent Temple to the divine Claudius, 

 which the Britons regarded as an infulting monument of the 

 Roman power and their own abject flavery. " Ad ha*c tem- 

 " plum divo Cl audio conftitutum, quafi arx asternae domina- 

 " tionis afpiciebatur ; delectique facerdotes, fpecie religionis, 

 " omnes fortunas efFundebant." Tacit. AnnaL fib. 14. cap. 31. 

 That this temple was a ftructure of great magnitude and foli- 

 dity, appears from this circumftance, that the Romans retreat- 

 ed to it as their lafl ftrong hold, and, for two days, defended 

 themfelves in it againft the beueging Britons. " Cetera qui- 

 " dem impetu direpta aut incenfa funt : Templum in quo mi- 

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* See an accurate account of the commencement of the commerce of Britain in 

 Whitaker's Hiftory of Manchefter, book I. chap. n. 



-f- About fifty coins of Cunobeline have come down to the prefent times. They are 

 of gold, of filver and of brafs ; and fome of them are elegant in their fabric and de- 

 vice. 



