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urge how extremely cautious we ought to be in accepting 
arguments founded on, I fear, too often fanciful derivations 
of the old names of places and peoples, ascribed to languages 
of which we really know nothing, and which, sometimes, 
have existed only in the imaginations of those to whom 
we owe the derivations. 
It is probable enough, from its physical character, that the 
district thus described remained in primitive simplicity long 
after the other parts of the island had made great advances 
in civilisation. During a recent visit, I have ascertained 
facts which leave no doubt that it was occupied by the 
Romans, though I can discover no reason for believing that 
they had any important station here. Indeed, I have at this 
moment in my possession Roman coins which I am assured 
were dug up at Bridlington ; and I have an authenticated 
statement by Mr. Cape of that town, of the discovery, a few 
years ago, of the remains of a Roman villa, in the parish 
of Rudstone, a place well known to antiquaries by the upright 
stone in its churchyard, which probably dates from at least 
as far back as the Roman period, and which, perhaps, marks 
the head seat of the tribe. At a later period, Flamborough 
became celebrated as the landing-place of Ida, the leader of 
the Northumbrian Angles ; and this particular district 
appears to have fallen to the lot of one of the families, or 
septs, of the settlers, which bore the name of Bridlingas, 
and who fixed their head-quarters at the spot called from that 
circumstance Bridlinga-tun, i. e., the mansion of the Brid- 
lingas, a name which has been but slightly softened down in 
the modern Bridlington. During the whole of the earlier 
Saxon period, this country appears to have lost nothing of 
its secluded and almost inaccessible character. The Wolds 
to the north-west remained as wild as ever, while in the 
forest to the south of them, which was known as the Dera- 
wald, (a name that may be interpreted either the wood of 
